Bethesda Announces The Elder Scrolls Online

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*6 hours later*

Ok after some thought I'm pretty sure I want this to happen. After all, if it turns out poorly I can just you know... Not play it.
That said, please dont release it for at least 3 more years pretty please? And don't start dripfeeding info every few months either. Because with the current batch of new mmo's (tor, tera, gw2, secret world) I'm getting a kind of promising-info fatigue. I'd really like to just stop getting info and start playing one :S And whichever one I settle down with, I'd like to be "my mmo" for a good while. Not just something to do while I wait for this even more amazing game.

/first world problems

 

[Preacher zer0]

This is the worst possibel thing that could happen to the Elder Scrolls. I definately will not be buying any further Elder Scrolls games

LMAO!

Wow...

 

[Black Reaper]

Its gonna be for Mac?

Spoiler: i applaud you bethesda

That said,my computer would probably explode from the strain of playng it.

 

[Oroboros]

This is the worst possibel thing that could happen to the Elder Scrolls. I definately will not be buying any further Elder Scrolls games

LMAO!

Wow...

I don't know what's so shocking about someone being upset about a singleplayer rpg series established in 1994 suddenly switching genres to go after the MMO crowd. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

[Zydrate]

Really? Well damn. Guess I'm not buying another Elder Scrolls game ever again. Shame they didn't announce this before I got Skyrim. Well @ least now I won't feel the need to spend money for its DLCs as this announcement has ruined the series and every game in it for me.

How the fuck does that work?
Bethesda is not even making the game!
Their still busy with their next game.

Point to where I even said Bethesda in my post. I know its technically another studio making it but there owned by the same parent company and this game s part of the Elder Scrolls series. as such now that an MMO is part of the series I'll no longer buy any of its games no matter who makes it.

Why? Do you have something against the existence of MMO's? Any studio who partakes is some kind of instant sellout? Please explain to me why this matters.

I probably won't be playing it for a long time. Meanwhile they'll continue to have great single player sandboxes for me to play in. What does it matter that there's an MMO?

 

[MorganL4]

Well I guess thats it.... TES will go the way of Warcraft. Can't say I didn't see this coming, I mean people were calling for this after oblivion. There was a time when we all thought Fallout 3 ( before it was announced to be fallout 3) was in fact a TES MMO. So yeah, not happy about it, but nor am I surprised.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

*Scratches Elder Scrolls off the list of franchises that haven't been fucked up by multiplayer* Such a shame.

 

[Meight08]

Well I guess thats it.... TES will go the way of Warcraft. Can't say I didn't see this coming, I mean people were calling for this after oblivion. There was a time when we all thought Fallout 3 ( before it was announced to be fallout 3) was in fact a TES MMO. So yeah, not happy about it, but nor am I surprised.

ITS SET 1000 YEARS BEFORE SKYRIM!
Read the bloody article its even being made by another studio.
So the single player games will keep coming.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Why is everyone assuming that because ZENIMAX ONLINE is making a MMORPG, that BETHESDA will somehow fuck up future ES games.

 

[joe-h2o]

Tentatively excited that it has been announced as a Mac and PC simultaneous release, which suggests strongly that the Mac version won't be a dreadful Cider port.

Also that it could suggest that Oblivion and Skyrim might be seeing native Mac releases in the future (one can only hope). Would save having to reboot into Windows to play, although that *does* help to stave off procrastination

 

[Oroboros]

Really? Well damn. Guess I'm not buying another Elder Scrolls game ever again. Shame they didn't announce this before I got Skyrim. Well @ least now I won't feel the need to spend money for its DLCs as this announcement has ruined the series and every game in it for me.

How the fuck does that work?
Bethesda is not even making the game!
Their still busy with their next game.

Point to where I even said Bethesda in my post. I know its technically another studio making it but there owned by the same parent company and this game s part of the Elder Scrolls series. as such now that an MMO is part of the series I'll no longer buy any of its games no matter who makes it.

Why? Do you have something against the existence of MMO's? Any studio who partakes is some kind of instant sellout? Please explain to me why this matters.

I probably won't be playing it for a long time. Meanwhile they'll continue to have great single player sandboxes for me to play in. What does it matter that there's an MMO?

It matters because MMOs have a great way of stalling the development of further non-MMO games down the road indefinately-see TOR or WoW. The goal of the MMO is to keep folks coming back as long as possible for the monthly subscription fee, as a result, a lot of resources go into making plot development etc for the MMO that otherwise could go into a singleplayer sequel.

MMOs have historically been a way to potentially make a massive amount of money (at considerable investment). Elder Scrolls has historically been a single palyer rpgs sicne its creation almost two decades ago (with the exception of Redguard), therefore it would stand to reason that they are going after a different audience. Focus on a lucrative audience at the expense of the old=sellout.

 

[SajuukKhar]

It matters because MMOs have a great way of stalling the development of further non-MMO games down the road indefinately-see TOR or WoW. The goal of the MMO is to keep folks coming back as long as possible for the monthly subscription fee, as a result, a lot of resources go into making plot development etc for the MMO that otherwise could go into a singleplayer sequel.

MMOs have historically been a way to potentially make a massive amount of money (at considerable investment). Elder Scrolls has historically been a single palyer rpgs sicne its creation almost two decades ago (with the exception of Redguard), therefore it would stand to reason that they are going after a different audience. Focus on a lucrative audience at the expense of the old=sellout.

The thing is though that Blizzard is one company who worked on a MMO stalling their other games because they were focused on the MMO.

BETHESDA AND ZENIMAX ARE TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, what one does isn't taking time or people away from the other.

It is a different situation entirely.

 

[zenoaugustus]

Damnit. And I thought I'd be able to save money on videogames over the next couple of years...

 

[Meight08]

*Scratches Elder Scrolls off the list of franchises that haven't been fucked up by multiplayer* Such a shame.

HOW IS IT FUCKED UP WHEN ITS A SPINOFF BY ANOTHER STUDIO AND THE MAKERS OF THE SINGLE PLAYER GAMES ARE STILL BUSY HOW IS EVERYBODY THIS FUCKING RETARDES!
Sorry the amount of idiots here is making be angry.

 

[splayfoot1]

The amount of times I've wanted to play a TES game co-op is just about equal to the times I've played a TES game.

but in my completely uninformed and horribly biased opinion, every change they need to make to turn it into a good MMO, would be a change that takes away one of the best features of the TES universe.

what happened to the wonderful world of lan games?

 

[MorganL4]

Well I guess thats it.... TES will go the way of Warcraft. Can't say I didn't see this coming, I mean people were calling for this after oblivion. There was a time when we all thought Fallout 3 ( before it was announced to be fallout 3) was in fact a TES MMO. So yeah, not happy about it, but nor am I surprised.

ITS SET 1000 YEARS BEFORE SKYRIM!
Read the bloody article its even being made by another studio.
So the single player games will keep coming.

First off, don't get your panties in a bunch, its just a message board. Second, I was unaware that fantasy world timelines had anything to do with videogame releases. Third, its not exactly a different studio, Zenimax Media owns Bethesda.

 

[Oroboros]

It matters because MMOs have a great way of stalling the development of further non-MMO games down the road indefinately-see TOR or WoW. The goal of the MMO is to keep folks coming back as long as possible for the monthly subscription fee, as a result, a lot of resources go into making plot development etc for the MMO that otherwise could go into a singleplayer sequel.

MMOs have historically been a way to potentially make a massive amount of money (at considerable investment). Elder Scrolls has historically been a single palyer rpgs sicne its creation almost two decades ago (with the exception of Redguard), therefore it would stand to reason that they are going after a different audience. Focus on a lucrative audience at the expense of the old=sellout.

The thing is though that Blizzard is one company who worked on a MMO stalling their other games because they were focused on the MMO.

BETHESDA AND ZENIMAX ARE TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, what one does isn't taking time or people away from the other.

It is a different situation entirely.

Bethesda is a subsidiary of Zenimax, it's not really that different. The leaked article has Tod Howard overseeing the lore. Even if they are beign done by the same teams, Elder Scrolls online does not exist in a vacuum from the rest of the Elder Scrolls series, and there is definately at least a degree of collaboration. Plots, locations, retcons etc will almost certainly carry over to any new games made by Zenimax or bethesda using the ES IP.

 

[Naqel]

I can't really see it succeeding, though I really wish it would.

The thing is: without modding, half the people that play The Elder Scrolls nowadays won't get what they like the most, be it being able to watch super HD grass, or a their army of half-naked argonian maids...

 

[SajuukKhar]

Bethesda is a subsidiary of Zenimax, it's not really that different. The leaked article has Tod Howard overseeing the lore. Even if they are beign done by the same teams, Elder Scrolls online does not exist in a vacuum from the rest of the Elder Scrolls series, and there is definately at least a degree of collaboration. Plots, locations, retcons etc will almost certainly carry over to any new games made by Zenimax or bethesda using the ES IP.

Zenimax online =/= Zenimax

Zenimax online is a subsidiary of Zenimix like Bethesda, also they said todd "checks in" every now and then , he isnt there constantly spending a good deal of time making it.

Also Es has a nice little thing called a dragonbreak, were time become nonlinear causing countless parallel timelines to spawn and others to be destroyed entirely. Bethesda could dragon-break the entire game out of lore in a snap.

 

[Zydrate]

Well I guess thats it.... TES will go the way of Warcraft.

You mean really, really successful?