When Australia is up the rest of the western world is asleep, hence the sparsely populated server. It’s been a quiet affair with only the odd interaction with other players. I’ve been playing The Elder Scrolls Online for the past week in a special press preview session with a handful of other games journalists. You are not going to get this sort of thing in The Elder Scrolls Online. The world and the narrative revolve around that one player resulting in a finely honed and delicately paced experience. I think it was Skyrim’s director, Todd Howard, that countered a question regarding multi-player in Skyrim by saying that the game was all about the player. I wanted another game like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I didn’t want Bethesda working on another of those pretty mindless online games whereby you spend forever hitting rats and engaging in a ludicrous fantasy story that involves you delivering parcels.

When I first heard about The Elder Scrolls Online I was pretty disappointed with the idea.

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