Tag: Emperor

With Elder Scrolls Online just a few months away, Zenimax has been throwing information as fast as they can in the form of Q&A’s and interviews. If there is any feature that has been dramatically overhyped and probably deserves to be talked about as little as possible and probably ran its PR course the same day it was revealed, it would be the ability for players to ascend to Emperor. Official Xbox Magazine posted details on just what a player can expect to receive upon being crowned, chief among which is a permanent skill set unavailable to you dirty lower class peasants. You can read the article at the link above, I will continue treating the feature as low on the totem pole in terms of importance.

Why? Let’s face it, neither you nor I are ever going to be crowned Emperor. The way that the system will work is that the player with the most Alliance Points on the faction that wins over the other two will be crowned Emperor for a period. That means competing against your entire faction to rack up points. Ask yourself, can you compete against the guy who never leaves his house? What about the people who share a single character and are able to keep it playing twenty four hours a day? The guy who sets up multiple accounts on separate factions to farm points? The guilds who farm points? I suppose that if you can’t beat them, join them, but do you have the dedication? Or are you more likely to simply get frustrated in the effort and probably face early burnout from the game entirely.

Frankly I love the idea of games that include rewards that only a select portion of the community will ever see, giving the hardcore base something to strive for other than mindlessly grinding end-game raids for ever-increasing equipment with bigger numbers attached, and Zenimax is going a step further by giving the entire faction some nice buffs to enjoy while they have control of the empire. I would like to see some other method of crowning than simply picking the guy who has the privilege of never having to leave his computer, but I’ve gracefully acknowledged that this specific portion of the game is out of reach, and honestly was never intended for myself and 98% of the community to achieve in the first place.

And I am fine with that. There will inevitably be those who refuse to play on the principle of not having access to 100% of the content, no exceptions, but I think that the majority of the community will have an attitude similar to my own.

With Elder Scrolls Online just a few months away, Zenimax has been throwing information as fast as they can in the form of Q&A’s and interviews. If there is any feature that has been dramatically overhyped and probably deserves to be talked about as little as possible and probably ran its PR course the same day it was revealed, it would be the ability for players to ascend to Emperor. Official Xbox Magazine posted details on just what a player can expect to receive upon being crowned, chief among which is a permanent skill set unavailable to you dirty lower class peasants. You can read the article at the link above, I will continue treating the feature as low on the totem pole in terms of importance.

Why? Let’s face it, neither you nor I are ever going to be crowned Emperor. The way that the system will work is that the player with the most Alliance Points on the faction that wins over the other two will be crowned Emperor for a period. That means competing against your entire faction to rack up points. Ask yourself, can you compete against the guy who never leaves his house? What about the people who share a single character and are able to keep it playing twenty four hours a day? The guy who sets up multiple accounts on separate factions to farm points? The guilds who farm points? I suppose that if you can’t beat them, join them, but do you have the dedication? Or are you more likely to simply get frustrated in the effort and probably face early burnout from the game entirely.

Frankly I love the idea of games that include rewards that only a select portion of the community will ever see, giving the hardcore base something to strive for other than mindlessly grinding end-game raids for ever-increasing equipment with bigger numbers attached, and Zenimax is going a step further by giving the entire faction some nice buffs to enjoy while they have control of the empire. I would like to see some other method of crowning than simply picking the guy who has the privilege of never having to leave his computer, but I’ve gracefully acknowledged that this specific portion of the game is out of reach, and honestly was never intended for myself and 98% of the community to achieve in the first place.

And I am fine with that. There will inevitably be those who refuse to play on the principle of not having access to 100% of the content, no exceptions, but I think that the majority of the community will have an attitude similar to my own.