I have not actually seen the video (started watching it, had to interrupt as I didn't have the time and now it's taken down). So take this with a huge grain of salt, I might be talking out of my arse, but I can give some answers to your post based on the objective problem with MMOs, which, bottom line, is what everyone's complaining about.
MephistosCousin said:
~Mudcrab taking way too long to kill? Beta
Not necessarily, this is how MMOs work, it could very well stay that way (it was done like that for beta with a reason). Not saying it won't get changed, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn;t.
MephistosCousin said:
~Animations aren't good enough? Beta
~Graphics are bad? Beta
True. But TES players have expectations and this MMO will never meet them.
MephistosCousin said:
~Where is all the cool stuff they promised? grr we got lied too! Uhh...no it's beta its just the first 20 minutes of the beta of a MMO...what MMO has a super cool/exciting first 20 minutes?
A number of MMOs do. SWTOR comes to mind, the starting area is where I had the most fun in the game (sadly)
MephistosCousin said:
~Looks like a WoW clone? uhh...how so? I mean I can tell they come from the same genre but it seems to look like it's more related to Guild Wars 2 with a bit of DDO thrown in for good measure (not that stealing/borrowing/whatever is any better when taken from those games)
This is the punchline. "Looks like WoW" means what it does for 95% of the MMOs out there - it's using the same tired old hotkey system. No matter how much dressing you put on it, it's just too worn out and doesn't appeal to pretty much anyone when a game has to draw a player in. The only people still willing to put up with this sort of control scheme are the people who are already playing MMOs, and they're doing it for reasons other than just playing a game (friends, guilds, progressed characters, etc.)
MephistosCousin said:
Come on guys...at least let the game come out before tearing it a new hole...if it's bad i'll be right there with you guys tearing it apart and gnawing on the poor beast's carcass. But give them some credit and at least be SLIGHTLY optimistic for the game or at least wish them the best of luck...wouldn't you rather this game be GOOD or at least decent?
I would wish them luck, but it'd be like saying "good luck" to a guy proving he can jump off a building onto solid pavement and survive. Sure, he might turn out to be Superman, but it's too unlikely for me to waste the two words. There's nothing to wish luck to when they're doing what every MMO developer out there has already proved doesn't work.
I'd wish them luck if they had the stones and the brains to try something "new". Which would be to try and turn TES
as it is into an MMO. Instead, they're adapting it to the "WoW model" and I neither have the interest nor the remote hope they'll succeed.
Oh and that it's just published and not developed by Bethesda? Sure, it keeps the TES singleplayer franchise intact and that's cool, but tell me, how many games has Bethesda published and not developed, that were actually good? Fallout: NV doesn't count considering they just gave another team all their tools and the pattern to how to make the game, so the answer, in my opinion, is one and that's Dishonored.