The Elder Scrolls Online Will Finally Bring The Elder Scrolls Online

A Borderlands style drop in drop out 4-8 player multiplayer gaming world set in the Elder Scrolls universe would be something I'd love to play but Elder Scrolls MMO isn't blowing my skirt up. I could be persuaded to try a Fallout MMO one day though.

After playing the jewel that is Skyrim, I was pretty much guaranteed to buy the next Elder Scrolls game... or so I thought.

There will probably be less to do than in the single player games

Bethesda making an MMO? Bugs ahoy!

I have never played a MMO and don't plan to in the future. But hey, good luck with that Bethesda.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

This is awesome ive spent over 200 hours with oblivion and skyrim, to be able to co-op with friends and raid dungeons sounds great. Wonder if it will use the Skyrim engine though?

Considering it spans the entire of Tamriel, I'll assume not. It'll be insanely awesome if it does, but there's no way they can get in the same level of detail to all those different reasons, and it's the main reason I'm thinking it's just going to be another shallow WoW/TOR game.

Now I'll have to wait even longer for the next Fallout =(

I don't like mmos, I think this will be the most broken mmo upon launch ever and yet still I'm going to sub (I'm assuming it's subs) for the first month at least. Purely so I can explore the entirety of Tamriel, motherfucking Morrowind mainland, fuck year! And just saying, Tamriel isn't the world, Nirn's the world. Tamriel's a continent.

NOOOOO why??????/

@Galiant: Different developers. This won't impact the next proper Elder Scrolls or Fallout games at all.

@megalowho said:

@EXTomar said:

The more I think about it, the more I think Bethesda should go with a more Minecraft system where going full on MMO seems more and more a bad idea the longer I consider it.

A make your own fun, sandbox style MMO is probably the best fit for the series. Building homes, roleplaying NPC's and all that. If they're trying to hook players in with the tried and true quest/loot/level/grind system and archetype classes, they're taking the easy way out. That shit is just naturally addictive, not good game design.

Hrrrm, yes. The whole time I was wandering around Maar Gan in Morrowind, I couldn't help thinking, "Fuck, I wish I could be the dude responsible for hollowing out all of the giant bug carcasses these fools are living in. That would be way more rad than exploring tombs."

Good luck Bethesda, that's a tough road you've decided to go down.

Fuck all ya'll. MMOs, yay!

Chances that this will go with TES tradition MMO-side is low.
Chances that this will be a TES mmo played like an ordinary MMO are high.
Chances I will give a hump what it plays like are microscopic. This is like the one fantasy IP I wanted an MMO of.

With companies announcing stuff like this now, I'm starting to worry about E3. What's going to be left to reveal?

*BONER ALERT*

This doesn't sound like a good idea.

Meh.

Will the Skyrim in the Elder Scrolls MMO be as big as it is in TES:V? What about the other areas?

This is what I most want to know about this.

Can i get a cliff racer mount and SKREEEE at everyone?

When will single player RPG creators get the hint that the public just isn't interested in their poorly realized MMOs?  
 
And we certainly don't want MMOs from a series that can't even produce a single player game not riddled with bugs and game breaking issues.  
 
No thanks.  Toss it on the pile with Final Fantasy 14..

RIP Elder Scrolls.

@Excast said:

When will single player RPG creators get the hint that the public just isn't interested in their poorly realized MMOs? And we certainly don't want MMOs from a series that can't even produce a single player game not riddled with bugs and game breaking issues. No thanks. Toss it on the pile with Final Fantasy 14..

I don't know if you know this, but it's being made by a different group of guys, and we have seen literally nothing about it.

My god GiantBomb... >.>

Finally, an Elder Scrolls game that I can play for a lot of hours but with the added benefit of the things that I hate about MMOs.

I guess that's not fair until there are details. Of course every MMO that's promised to be different and play well has been a lie.

Never played an MMORPG and don't have much desire to. I would like to play Skyrim co-op with a friend or two though.

@WinterSnowblind said:

@sthusby said:

Love how people are writing this off after all they've seen is the font of the title. People are dumb.

The reasons seem logical enough to me. The Elder Scrolls gameplay has always the exact opposite of what MMO's are, so it's not surprising people are resistant.

If it's first person, focused on exploring and still feels like the Elder Scrolls, I'm in.. but come on, it's going to be nothing more than a WoW clone. I'll care if/when that turns out not to be the case.

Well, people complain over Skyrim's combat being the weakest part of it. And why keep a first person view if it doesn't enhance the gameplay? I've been hoping for a mandatory third person view in ES since Daggerfall.

Can i get a cliff racer mount and SKREEEE at everyone?

no interest!

Pass!

Let's all hang out in Whiterun and show off our BONE ARMORS!

I dislike MMO's as a whole so this doesn't really excite me at all.

@zoskia said:

not fallout 4. do not want.

Well, it says its being developed at Zenimax Online Studios. So, let us hope that means Bethesda is indeed working on Fallout 4. One can hope.

@WinterSnowblind said:

@Galiant: Different developers. This won't impact the next proper Elder Scrolls or Fallout games at all.

How do you know it won't? They're developers owned by the same publisher!

Awesome. We can now enjoy the glitches and the bugs for a monthly fee.

Don't do it

I've got a pretty good feeling this is going to get canceled.

@jennoa said:

Good luck Bethesda, that's a tough road you've decided to go down.

I agree. It will be interesting to see how the core identity of the Elder Scrolls franchise translates into an online format. Hopefully, it will translate spectacularly well, and we'll finally get the opportunity to explore Tamriel with others.

I don't understand all the hate on this thread. Why would one hope this endeavor is not a success?

Fuck. I love The Elder Scrolls but I can't get into MMORPGs (and I've tried plenty of 'em). I really hope this isn't a FF XI situation with this being The Elder Scrolls VI in place of a single-player-only game.

@Zippedbinders said:

I've got a pretty good feeling this is going to get canceled.

what makes you think that. i mean we've seen nothing about the game yet and just have a title. am i missing something

Well...Fuck. This is a terrible prospect. The only way this could work is by it being the least 'MMORPG' MMORPG ever. It has to break the mould completely.

My issue is that I don't want the impact of the main series to diminish, and I know it's a different developer, but my problem is that each game in the series, aside from Arena, introduced you to a new province each time, and each time it was magical.

So when in the MMO i see Summerset Isle fully mapped out, then what? does a potential future main game just crib from that? That would be depressing. The only thing left really interesting would be story, but then at what point does the MMO fuck that up too? I guess everything would have to pre-date whatever Era the MMO is in, because to me these games a very isolated experiences.

Depending on whether it actually keeps to the spirit of the main games, it looks like I'll have to block it out of existence for the time being.

Oy vey. Can you imagine the amount of bugs this game will have? Also: no modding. I am sure they will have stuff similar to Lua Scripting, but there won't be the personal touches found in the single player games on the PC. Also, this thing will be an absolute system hog and will be totally un-optimized. No thanks. Also, this won't even be ready for human consumption til like 2017.

Wow this is awfully quick for an mmo release? In 2013? I hope they started the dev work on this game a long time before Skyrim because if they didn't this will not be a polished product.

I too echo the "MMO? Pass." sentiment. I''m sure it will be fine and fans of the series who do like MMOs will yadda yadda yadda. They better have Fallout 4 news next year.

Hmm, I hate to say it but this may be the first MMO I will play, depending on how the pricing structure works and how the gameplay ends up be implemented.

@HistoryInRust said:

RIP Elder Scrolls.

I said this when Morrowind came out. And then Oblivion. And again for Skyrim. Maybe you should be cool like me and learn not to prejudge shit, especially when there is literally nothing more than a name for you to base your opinion on.

(Oblivion actually was pretty bad, though.)

A little sad, but this has been all but confirmed for awhile now right?

I hope its good and fun. I'll certainly play it. But mmos are mmos ultimately, and its not what I want from the Elder Scrolls name.

Maybe I will try it once it goes free-to-play if a few other non-MMO friends of mine jump in. Otherwise my ban on MMO's will not be lifted.

@Saganomics said:

@HistoryInRust said:

RIP Elder Scrolls.

I said this when Morrowind came out. And then Oblivion. And again for Skyrim. Maybe you should be cool like me and learn not to prejudge shit, especially when there is literally nothing more than a name for you to base your opinion on.

(Oblivion actually was pretty bad, though.)

Yeah, I mean I don't expect it to be very good. But sometimes you get surprised.