Elder Scrollls MMO very likely

[Nimzabaat]

I'm kind of surprised to see all the posts labelling Skyrim as "buggy". I have encountered one bug in the game and it never fails to amuse (dead mobs falling from the sky, startling and funny). Honestly, Bethesda hasn't let me down as a gamer yet. That being said, i'm not sure that a Elder Scrolls MMO is a good idea either. Simply because the single player experience keeps out the undesirable gamers... and i'm very much against riff raff.

 

[Nelle]

In my perspective. They should focus if they're making a MMO, Focus it on the Fallout Universe. But hey, the original agreement with Interplay and Bethesda Game Studios is that Bethesda agreed to the Deal of Interplay to make a Fallout MMO.

I think the TES series might lose its cult following because it will have a MMO game. Since i am a Big time TES fan. Well, lets just see..

Also if they're going to make the whole Tamriel Continent. I doubt TES MMO will not be released until a next decade or so.

 

[Taldeer]

Not for me, at all, sorry. I simply don't see the point in paying for one game, every month, over and over again. The social component to MMOs is a tremendous letdown, in all the franchises I've tried, it doesn't improve my experience in the least...

Captcha: "tastes good"; I beg to differ.

 

[Smiley Face]

I'm not too bent out of shape about this - I mean, it could be worse. Bethesda's games really shine with the environment - the singleplayer elements are really its weakest point, besides its glitches. An MMO transition wouldn't be that hard, and it's not necessarily a bad idea for Bethesda to try its hand at something new (Even if Brink didn't pan out).

That said, I'm not going near it, A) Because I usually limit myself to console games, and B) Because I don't care for MMOs, particularly if they run on subscriptions. If I'm going to jump ship on that, it'll be to SWTOR, not Elder Scrolls.

 

[tzimize]

Chiming in to say that I'm about as excited about this as a Mass Effect MMO (even before considering the ending).

MMOs are not games, they are a grind that cost money. I'll have no part of it thanks. Give me a great single player experience instead and I'll throw my money at you.

I'm not interested in it, and I will not play it.

 

[Nelle]

If they will add a mini multiplayer component like Diablo 2 did. For example. for Co-op and Duel purposes only on the Next TES game. thats fine, well. for me. ofcourse.

 

[teh_Canape]

who knows
their first attempt with Battlespire was pretty alright, despite the game itself being a bit flawed
maybe they'll get it right this time =P

 

[BloatedGuppy]

We need more single player RPGs, not less. My major concern is that if they decide to do an MMO off of this property we're going to see an end to the single player series. I mean when Ultima Online came out, the single player Ultima games vanished soon thereafter, when World Of Warcraft came out we stopped seeing Warcraft RTS games. I cannot think of a major game franchise that has managed to continue strong single player game development, while also having an MMO based off of it out there.

Whoa now. You can't blame Ultima Online for what happened with Ultima. The endless debacles surrounding the development and eventual release of Ultima IX killed Ultima.

I do agree that an Elder Scrolls MMO could potentially see an end, or least a cessation, to the single player series is a legitimate concern though. Regardless, it sounds like this is happening anyway, whether we want it or not.

 

[surg3n]

Personally I'd love to see a multiplayer TES, or Fallout game - but only multiplayer, no MMO bullhickey. Wandering the wasteland is often a lonely endeavor, having multiplayer in Fallout3 for instance, would mean I'd still be playing it. Same could be said for Skyrim, but I dunno - TES always striked me as a strong single player game series with no distinct need for multiplayer - it would be nice, but it's not a deal breaker.

The current suite of MMO's out there are dull as hell, people are running towards their next grind quest, running back from their next grind quest, or standing around trying to look impressive. Theres huge scope for games like Borderlands, where having 3 buddies to play with adds to the game, it doesn't become the game.

I they announced tomorrow that Fallout4 is being developed, and it'll have co-op multiplayer ala Borderlands, well I'd be as happy as a bug in a lug - I'd actually do that ''throwing money at the screen but nothing happen'' gag.

 

[Hyper-space]

This is like the third goddamn time someone "reports" that Bethesda is going to make an MMO, it didn't happen with Skyrim and it won't happen now.

 

[Tanakh]

I'm not a big MMO player (or at all). Why is it everyone seems to be jumpin' into the MMO pile? Last I heard that was a money pit since WOW dominated the genre. :\

Whoever told you that is the worst kind of ignorant guy, the one that deludes others, let me list MMOs that have made a profit:

- WoW
- Aion
- Lineage
- Lineage II
- Runescape
- Second Life
- Age of Conan (horrible launch, but now they are doing decent, even growing!)
- Rift
- LotR
- FF XI
- Everquest
- Everquest II
- Dofus
- EVE
- Ultima
- City of Heroes
- DaoC
- Aherons Call
- Anarchy Online
- Puzzle Pirates
- The Realm Online
- Maple Story
- GW (GW 2 OMGOMGOMGOMG!)

SW:TOR will join that list unless the world ends soon. And those are only the big ones that have gotten serious money, there are a bunch of smaller ones like WWII and such, and also the Asian MMOs that also reap serious cash (but I am ignorant about those).

To summarize, WoW alone is making hundres of millions in net profits and there is a bunch of others making good profits. It's acutally hard to fail there, you must work to hype the community and then release a buggy game with shit servers and broken mechanics (Tabula Rasa, FFXIV, Warhammer); so really doing a MMO you are buying a ticket to a (very low proability) money printing machine, to a (very high prob) small money farm or to a (low prob) waste of money, sounds like an amazing lottery to me.

OT: Not trilled, single player RPG companies seem to deliver the less interesting MMOs, FF and SW:ToR come to mind; a shame, ToR could have been much more, but with Bioware developing it they showed old habits that are fine for a RPG, but not an MMO.

 

[Deathmageddon]

I don't know how to feel about this, actually.

Neutral?

I'm there. Honestly, who cares what anybody does? If you don't want to play it, then just don't. The world won't end if Bethesda makes ONE game that doesn't follow their usual, massive single-player sandbox RPG formula.

 

[ExileNZ]

Bethesda's games are like single player MMO's anyway. Shouldn't be too much of a transition.

Yes it is, because an MMO requires a constant internet connection, which is a pain in the arse (and an expensive one, at that) to provide.

Got 6 hours to kill on the train/plane? Hope you've got your $200 /month wifi key.

High-speed internet is not so cheap or easy to get outside the States.

 

[Best of the 3]

If they did they'd have to hopefully make a Console version too as my PC really just can't handle this. Furthermore they'd have to make this optional. More like Co op rather than MMO. If it went to be something like WoW I'd be pissed off. Grinding and quests that hold no real meaning in a world that wouldn't be all that special (as you'd be sharing it) would be a real turn off for me.

 

[The Funslinger]

anc[is]
Because being instakilled by obnoxious 12 year olds and a shoehorned in two faction system is what the Elder Scrolls really needs.

Two factions? Really, you just jumped to that conclusion?

I get that it'd be a fantasy MMO, but that doesn't come anything close to equaling another shitty WoW clone.

I, for one, am cautiously optimistic about this. If it was one of those MMOs that's going to also be on consoles (like Guild Wars 2 will be) that'd provide more hope for them keeping it first person with similar mechanics to what they have now, so I hope that's the direction things take.

 

[The Funslinger]

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There was an MMO called Tabula Rasa?

If it'd been me, I'd have been sorely tempted to make it a white screen and nothing else for the joke.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

I don't see this working.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

If it's F2P I'll gladly check it out. If it's sub based then it can go fuck itself.

 

[drivebymessiah]

Bethesda can't make a dynamic, balanced(relatively), and compelling combat system to save it's life. Combat in Morrowind sucked. Combat in Oblivion sucked. Combat in Skyrim sucked. Combat in Fallout 3 had a small window of being non shitty and did so by ignoring all precedents and simply modelling after every fps ever.

What content would Bethesda possibly make to engage a party of players?:

- Landscapes and architecture? No. I hate to rain on the parade of some of the most diligent graphic/texture artists to ever ply their trade, but no matter how impressive the landscape it will be the first thing to fade into taken-for-granted background.

- Engaging the same 10 voice actors endlessly giving wooden performances over a sterile story? Partially, sure, but this really doesn't translate well into a multi-player experience.

The only thing groups of players do in multi player rpg's is crack goblin skulls or each others' and/or preparing for the cracking of skulls. Can you imagine how shitty the mmo would be from a design team that has repeatedly brought us a combat experience where the pinnacle of effectiveness has always been "get a daedric weapon. power attack with it. you are god incarnate."

So no: do not want to play. If bethesda is making an MMO it will surely bankrupt them.

The elder scrolls series has been a good bit of fun. Always neat to feel that engagement with a bright shiny new world up until the moment that your 20-30 hours in and even though you haven't finished the main questline you realize the gameplay isn't that good and the fact this dark elf fellow supposedly from another continent sounds inexplicably australian just like that human bandit that was also inexplicably australian you met 15 hours ago and the whole thing is becoming asinine.

Bethesda does some things well, no doubt. But the elements of gameplay that they don't do well have a funny way of making their games go from hype darlings to most-overrated lists. And, fine, good for them. It's making them a profit, but the Elder scrolls experience absolutely cannot survive as an MMO and absolutely nothing that Bethesda has done would indicate they have any idea how to make an MMO.

 

[ChadSexington]

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So I'm a little bit (read: seventh generation, my family moved here in 1790 and I've spent all my life bar two years here) Australian and I'm yet to find someone who sounds even remotely Australian in ANY Elder Scrolls game. Nice argument dude.

OT: I really hope they don't make an Elder Scrolls MMO. I hate MMO's with a passion and I would hate for them to tarnish Morrowind by turning the series into endless fetch quests.