Is this game like World Of Warcraft & Runescape.

[Exle]

My brother is saying this game is like Wow or Runescape. He was addicted to Skyrim when it launched and still plays it. This game to me is like Skyrim, with new features, and Multiplayer. Is this game like those games at all or is it more like all the other Elder scrolls games?

[Cloak]

if like wow it shares one basic feature which is other players.
yes.

if no.
then no, this game has much better combat, quests and everything.

[Randy Marsh]

This game, while it contains elements of both, surely- Is a pretty unique product, and you'll either like it or you'll hate but I haven't seen many people who don't feel strongly one way or the other.

[Static_Green]

nothing like WoW or Runescape

[tolkafox]

If you liked runescape then yes, you'll love this game.

Major pro: play it for a year and you will have actually saved money on membership subscriptions!

[Splaetos]

The mechanics are very MMO which are all based on WoW these days. Mob behavior and clutter, zones, formulaic, mindnumbing quests... etc. It is similar to unmodded skyrim(loooks a little better actually), with other people around. Can't speak to end game personally. If you have played modern MMO's and good open world RPG's (especially modded Bethesda products) you will definitely be aware you are not playing the latter. It reminds me of WoW in its first year(or LOTRO), which wasn't horrible, but from this company, I feel it should have been better.

[Maelstrom]

I've been playing a couple of weeks and I'm having fun and would still recommend it, but to be totally honest the weakest aspects of ESO are all gameplay elements where Zenimax decided to take inspiration from WoW and not the single player Elder Scrolls games.

As a single player game where you occassionally see another person out in the world it's pretty good (though still not as nearly as good as Skyrim or even Oblivion or Morrowind) and since ther'es no sub I'd recommend picking this game up based purely on that. As an MMO it's honestly not very good, at least from what I've seen so far. I've been told it gets better in veteran ranks after level 50 but that doesn't exactly help me or other new players.

[Randy Marsh]

Originally posted by Maelstrom:

I've been playing a couple of weeks and I'm having fun and would still recommend it, but to be totally honest the weakest aspects of ESO are all gameplay elements where Zenimax decided to take inspiration from WoW and not the single player Elder Scrolls games.

I would argue that the weakest aspect is the customer service. I completely see your point where you're finding it lacking in specific TES features. That's a totally valid point of view, however, think about it from the other perspective- It would be pretty close to impossible to have the level of detail in ESO as you would have in any standard game, for the simple reason that loading all those small details on all say 1000 people in a single server channel would be next to impossible. Too many variables in players hardware for one, and hosting it would require some kind of insane super computer to keep track of every single piece of silverware, other items, NPCs, animals, and enemies across however many people are in a single server instance, THEN having to do that for every single server channel at the same time and every player. It's just unrealistic to expect it imo, however it seems like they did a good job of compromise while keeping the spirit of the game alive.

Originally posted by Maelstrom:

As a single player game where you occassionally see another person out in the world it's pretty good (though still not as nearly as good as Skyrim or even Oblivion or Morrowind) and since ther'es no sub I'd recommend picking this game up based purely on that. As an MMO it's honestly not very good, at least from what I've seen so far. I've been told it gets better in veteran ranks after level 50 but that doesn't exactly help me or other new players.

So the thing about getting to level 50, is once you get there you open up a whole new type of skill points, called Champion points. You level your veteran rank from doing stuff in Vet zones and daily dungeons, BUT if you're in the normal world anywhere you don't gain vet experience. Instead you gain champion points. There's 501 total points to earn from 50(VR1)-VR16. You can then spend them on any new toons you make. They give you all sorts of bonus to damage, defense, crits, all kinds of stats you'd want to boost, effectively giving you a whole new way to get stronger, and giving any new toons you make a serious advantage over the first time you ran through 1-50 and it will go a long faster.
I think it wins as an MMO but only because it's not like any of the other MMOs really, it works quite well as a TES multiplayer game though. I think there's yeah, some things that work and don't, but it would be harder to make it any better and still make it accessible to as many people as it has.