The game was released without any noticeable server-side anti-cheat mechanisms, there have been bots noclipping, flying and speedhacking all over the place. Players have found it near impossible to get mats in starting zones because of it and found their experience ruined by the sheer amount of blatant exploitation going on.

In PVP now, there are even cases of players rising up through the ground inside forts in Cyrodil, capturing Elder Scrolls without having to actually invade the fort.

It’s ridiculous and doesn’t seem to be the major priority to ZOS that it clearly should be. There are more issues I could raise but for many the failure to protect the integrity of the game world and it’s economy is a red flag to any experienced MMO gamer.

Also, be warned, especially if in Europe… Zenimax’s payment system for ESO’s subscriptions has been causing
customers to have money locked up in their bank accounts, failing to be
processed resulting in players losing money temporarily while receiving
no game time. – This problem has affected multiple banks, multiple cards
and even PayPal payment and ZOS have failed to resolve it in 9+ days.

To be clear… I’m no ESO-hater… I had very high hopes for this game… I’m just very disappointed to see anti-cheat mechanisms being added after launch to an MMO released on PC… it was just asking for trouble!

Good luck to Zenimax, I hope they can fix the problems soon.