The Elder Scrolls Online

[mhg83]

Bethesda has today made a sudden announcement, confirming the years-long rumors of an Elder Scrolls MMO. Yes, The Elder Scrolls Online is an actual thing!

Developed for PC and Mac, details are due in the June issue of Game Informer. Matt Firor is the lead developer with Zenimax Online Studios, and the team is committed to making "the best MMO ever made -- and one that is worthy of The Elder Scrolls franchise."

So far, we know the game will include three factions engaged in a war for the Emperor's throne. It's set a millennium before Skyrim and revolves around the activities of a Daedric prince, Molag Bal. He plans to pull Tamriel into his Hellish province, so he's not very nice.

Well ... holy shit.

http://www.destructoid.com/announced-the-elder-scrolls-online-226894.phtml

I'm not a fan of MMO's but love the ES series. My main issue is combat. If the ES MMO has the first person action combat I might try it out.

The part about fighting for the Throne would be cool if one person on each server can work their way up and become Emperor as the end goal. Every day you would have to fight to keep from losing the throne.

[argh923]

They won't have trannys in this one.

[edstein]

As good as Elder Scrolls is, I'm still not interested in pay per month MMO gaming.

[covenant]

I haven't been interested in getting back into one since I left WoW after Cataclysm. If anything can pull me back in it's Elder Scrolls.

[foxdvd]

:thmbsdwn:

[Setzer]

Awesome! Love that they are going with 3 factions.

[flashburn]

From what Game Informer says, it's just going to be another WoW clone. Meh.

[SunMonkey]

The last two Elder Scroll games have been mostly what I enjoyed about WoW without the multi-player and monthly fee that I did not. So, if I wanted an MMOG version of a game like Elder Scrolls, I would just go back to WoW. :shrug:

[wlj]

i would love to give a good MMO a try, but my wife would laugh her ass off if I told her I need to pay $20 bucks a month to do it. I enjoyed Phantasy Star Online back on the Dreamcast when it was free. That wasn't a true MMO I don't think.

[slop101]

Do not want. I would rather they put their resources into improving the existing ES line and/or more/better DLC for SkyRim.

[mhg83]

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[Drexl]

I understand some of the complaints in this thread, but I think it's much better that they do a separate game than shoehorn multiplayer into their singleplayer titles.

[covenant]

Very impressive visually. Makes me want to explore that world. Enough to sub?

[Noonan]

I understand some of the complaints in this thread, but I think it's much better that they do a separate game than shoehorn multiplayer into their singleplayer titles.
Absolutely. Keep numbered TES games the way they are for folks who have no interest in multiplayer rpgs.