I enjoy the Elder Scrolls games, but I was never too keen on what I saw with the mmorpg trailers I saw. Looked just like 1st person WoW.
Closed beta events are going on atm. I'm actually enjoying it! It's still a little buggy at times, but it looks like a Skyrim game and I think it eases away from the WoW-clone label.
My friend and I signed up for the beta, our PCs are beasts but we didn't get in
There are multiple events; I haven't got into the first few but I'm playing this weekend. How they describe it is that there are individual beta testing events with different groups of people so they try out gameplay in different ways. I'm sure you'll get an invite at one point for a weekend.
I'm not a fan of TES series, but I've seen gameplay footage and read some interviews from ZeniMax Online Studios and the game has me very excited. I haven't played an MMO since November of 2011, though.