In my opinion, I like the MSN Gaming ZOne better, since it takes up less system resources, and you don't have to squint at all of the text, which you have to do at ESO if your eyes are like mine and if you don't like glasses.
Zone is also more flexible when it comes to playing rated games. While ESO has developed the rated system to ensure that cheating is less likely, I still really only like playing with people whom I actually know. In my opinion, in Zone Rated, you should be flexible about having partners to playr ated games with, but once you have played a game with someone, you cannot play a rated game with him again for at least a few days.
However, I am sure that ESO will improve with time, and I also hope that you can choose a plain white background and black text in the chat screen, so that you don't have to squint at the chat messages. Perhaps it's becuase of my 4 MB video card, which actually handles AoM quite well, but not the messages.
By the way, here is an earlier comment I made about ESO in a different post:
I do have to admit, that I like the MSN Gaming Zone's system of finding games more so than the ESO's system of finding games, and I also don't have to squint at the text of the MSN Gaming Zone. It also was a very nice place to simply chat with your gaming partners, as well as anyone else whom wandered into the room, in Agincourt, the room in which AOKHers usually went to for the AoKH Forum Parties, and later, the ladder games.
In private games, you could simply post the password on the forum party post, and host a password protected room, instead of inviting people, which can be very inconvinient.
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