I've actually said this several times on Live-Streams before, so this is NOTHING NEW to my regular viewers; said and done already. But I figured I'd compile it into one of my more normal videos for a broader reach. It is still a normal video talking about how my view of Elder Scrolls Online has changed since the last time I talked about it years ago.

When the Elder Scrolls Online came out, the marketing materials went pretty hard declaring the official Loremaster, who functionally was 2/3 Lead Writer and 1/3 Community Actor or Manager. The general, internet-wide assumption was "The lore is going to be consistent because they have a Loremaster. This was incorrect and it lead me to say things that I've regretted saying since I learned about how they actually design their game. I figured with people pushing me to apologize to Emil Pagliarulo something I currently (subject to change perhaps, free will and all that) have no intention of doing, I should make an apology in my style, which is overly, excessively informative, and a clickbait thumbnail because at the end of the day, video making exists to entertain me more than anything else.

So, with that out of the way, Let's talk about Elder Scrolls Online and Lawrence Schick, a mountain of a man who deserves my apology twice among a lot of discussion about how I view ESO. I like ESO, but it won't ever be my "Live Service Game". As with all things I like, I'm more critical of it than things I don't like, which I ignore. This is my normal though process and it is contrary to how the average "fan" think about things. To them this kind of discourse would be akin to poison.

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