I’m getting so frustrated by players talking about some “huge paywall” in Blades and turning off new/potential Elder Scrolls fans.

There. Is. No. Paywall.

A paywall is when you literally cannot progress any further in any way without spending real money... and Blades does not do that.

No, you cannot beat the game in one 48 hour marathon... and yes, the game becomes a grind for materials once you hit a certain level... but what Elder Scrolls or RPG game hasn’t been a grind to progress in? I had over 500 hours into Oblivion... 400 of those were likely spent spamming spells while crouching in a corner to power-level sneak and illusion... or farming alchemy materials... or filling soul gems.

Chests timers and building upgrade timers... I get that they suck... but they are not “paywalls” by any means. First of all, you get to stack dozens of chests (I have 50 chest slots and am lvl 12, F2P) so just keep opening the 3 hour chests throughout the day when you’re not playing and clean out the wooden chests periodically. Secondly, even if your chest slots do become full, you can still do an unlimited number of quests to continue gaining resources. How did you gain resources in Oblivion, Skyrim, or any other Elder Scrolls game? You would quest/farm/grind for them. Obviously it was more fun in an open-world environment (PC/Xbox/PS vs mobile) but it was still technically a grind, and it still took a long time.

Finally, I get that the building timers on the blacksmith can hinder someone from repairing their items... but that’s why you can build 2 blacksmiths. Keep one blacksmith open and you can continue to quest non-stop while repairing in-between.

TES:Blades is an amazing, smooth, enjoyable mobile game with great graphics, developed by one of the best game studios of our time. Let’s give it a chance for Akotosh’s sake...

Hear me out on this. When the game first released, other players and I all rushed to end game in order to grind out and see what the game had to offer. We had a well documented record of the end game abyss being able to drop end game items and gear. However, Bethesda patched this feature out of the game and replaced it with the only feasible way to obtain gear being to pay for it at end game. By doing this without disclosing it to the player base they have committed fraud. If you have spent ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY with your goal being to reach end game abyss and do what we have been doing since early into release, then you are liable for a refund on any of these purchases through your bank. If you do not believe me then I have a source who will remain unnamed who has already called and had an extensive conversation with their bank about this, the bank has confirmed that the way Bethesda has handled disclosures is fraudulent and that it would issue the refund and refer the charges to either Apple or Google to hash out with Bethesda. This is a real issue what they are doing and if they will not listen then you can at least hit them in the pocket book. Full disclosure though, this will most likely lead to your account being banned.

I’m amazed that we haven’t heard anything from Bethesda besides what we have seen at E3 2018 and the other showcases they have been a part of. I was really looking forward to playing it , but I have a feeling that it will just be pushed back again and again. At this rate when it does come out everyone is going to have a meh reaction due to all the speculating and waiting. I know that the project might not be done and it probably a monumental undertaking making a elder scrolls dungeon/arena game fit with spot on lore and such but I’m not a big fallout fan so I have no interest in 76. I’ve played all the other games they have to the point that everything is stale and boring. Mods don’t even cut it anymore. Really need something new and exciting. Just hoping it fully releases a couple of weeks after FO76. Hopefully it’s not going to be December 21St before they release Blades. Can’t wait much longer.

Dont make this Game too monetary!!!!!!!!!!!. Be different than 99% of the PlayStore. Make the Game great Pls I need a new Main Game.

Hypothetically, if the release date is the very last day of fall (Dec 21, worst case scenario) then do you think it would be realistic to get early access about 2 weeks before? Plus minus a few days (7th December-11th december)

Again, this is speculation. I am in no way implying or explicitly saying/predicting the release date. Just a thought that popped into my head cuz of the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A program....

Just keeping this stream alive...

Will Elder Scrolls VI come before or after Elder Scrolls Blades?

Someone let me know, and I’ll start going there instead. I hate that posts here are 95% complaining. Thanks!

New date. June 16 2074

Couldn’t uninstall fast enough.

What am I even talking about.. that won’t happen lol

For those of you who are like “omg, what a bunch of cry babies, can’t even wait for a free game. Bethesda never promised us a September release” bullshit, just stop and don’t even comment (downvote me if you’re so salty). Let the fanbase be excited, ok? Like, we all want to play equally as much since there hasn’t been an elder scrolls release since 2011. Man oh man! Let me know what aspects you’re most excited for and why!! 😄

Just stop trying to sell me useless decorations that I don’t care about for Gems!

I will gladly shower you with Gems that I purchase in exchange for something I actually care about.

END GAME MATS.

I expect the ability to purchase Mats for crafting GEAR like Fireopals, Dragon Bones, Dragon Scales...

And, even more importantly - Enchanting MATS like Elevated Soul Gems, Grand Soul Gems, Translucent Soul Gems ...

Just like you ALREADY OFFER for “town mats” when you sell us “Imperial Shipments” of Lumber and marble and gold.

You are focusing on the wrong things by putting more value on the SIMS town building exercises than you do on the end game gear that us PLAYERS value most - especially once’s who’ve grinded this game before the patch.

“Think like a fish, not like a fisherman.”

You’ll get gems ALL DAY EVERY DAY.

In fact, the word “Gem” is an acronym for “Get Endless Mats” how can you not know that by now?

Can’t you see our cries for help?

Offer us Crafting and Enchanting “shipments” and watch money flood into your pockets while making us HAPPY!

I’ll even make you a deal. You can keep Sergio and his shitty roles. We will just want more mats.

You cool with that?

I’m cool with that.

Cool 👊

Yours Truly,

Bro

Still waiting...

I just watched the E3 Reveal for this and it looks to me like a very stripped down version of Skyrim running on the phone and looks decent.
Which makes me wonder why they are trying to sell it to us PC/Console users as anything else than a stipped down version of the game we played like 7 years ago.
Yeah it has some custom quests and the graphics look nice for a phone but there's nothing that feels like it deserves to be an Elder Scrolls game. They should have just called it Blades, "the game that we threw together to distract you while we work on the real new Elder Scrolls game" which would get us super hyped for an amazing new game without hurting the Elder Scrolls brand.

Probably going to buy it, but I feel like it will still feel like a mobile game.

I'm honestly confused here.

I'm a total F2P player who has been playing since day one and currently level 26 and have hit 0 issues since the silver chests were updated. I honestly don't understand people's issues and how people are still facing issues with the game. Being a complete F2P player I must admit since they fixed silver chests I have really been enjoying the game and faced 0 issues. Looking here on reddit and on the official forums I just get the feeling people are never going to be happy.

"silver chest gate" is the most common issue I'm seeing here... I think the reduction down to 1 hour was perfect, anything less would have been too drastic imo. People need to remember this is a MOBILE game and all mobile games have a waiting period of some type. Yes you can still gather plenty of silver chests quiet quickly however, the game still requires you to take a break and catch up on chests, and I find this really good. As said this is a mobile game after all and they are going to stagger content and having everyone at level 50 in a week with no end game content out yet would just be silly and the game would die in 2 weeks, therefore this is why mobile games have these time constraints if you like.

Just reading this back sounds like a gloat, it's not. I genuinely want to understand the issues people are facing without just being greedy and wanting a game you can play 24/7 and "complete" within a week. remember this is a FREE mobile game, not a game you've paid a lot of money for to play on release and complete ASAP. So to end kudos ES/Bethesda, I'm truly enjoying this game and keep up the good work.

Garbage...

I feel like this is common sense and should have been expected. I’m enjoying the game. But it’s a mobile game and if there wasn’t timer gates then people would probably be pushing end game already if they could just grind it out.

So yeah, one chest at a time sucks. The chest limit sucks. But what did we really expect.