Very excited at the prospect of being able to cross all of Tamriel in a single game, though I'm reserving judgement until more details emerge.

Lifetime subscription? Three thousand dollah?

thats a terrible terrible idea

Like I said before, if this is literally an ES game (preferably Skyrim) but online, then I can see the appeal.

If this is an online game "Set in the world of ES!" Then I have zero interest.

As I said before, DO NOT WANT

It will be the buggiest MMO launch in history.

And I still fucking hate entering text on GB's mobile site. No post editing? Really?

All I have to say is this: Let's wait and see.

How exactly is the Elder Scrolls franchise well-suited to an MMO? How will they adapt it without completely abandoning what people love about the series?

@Tredik said:

Welp, can't turn out any worse than TOR, right?

I think it actually could. The Elder Scrolls have always had a strong focus on the personal experience, exploring, being isolated, etc. How is any of that going to come across in an MMO? Old Republic at least still feels like it's part of the same series as the previous games, this is more than likely going to turn out to be a generic WoW clone, completely removed from what we want and expect from the series.

It could turn out good.. but I'm not holding my breath.

@adoggz said:

@JuxJuxJux

And it's going to be broken beyond belief!

I can't wait to see how buggy Bethesda can make this game.

This.

MMO are the most boring game series. Never played one, never will.

booo to MMO, where is my Skyrim DLC

@poser said:

An MMO misses the very point of what the Elder Scrolls is about.

A typical MMO yes, but if they can create something new it can be interesting. When I played Fallout 3 I often thought "I wish I could show off my apartment to my friends." So I think multiplayer can do some good, but not if they just create a typucal MMO in the ES universe.

I used to like MMO's, then I took a look in the mirror.

Gross

@President_Barackbar said:

Wow people, have a little faith in Bethesda. Normally I would avoid an MMO like the plague, but I'm certainly interested to see where this goes. Just because it's an MMO doesn't mean it has to be terrible.

I hate to point this out but Bethesda doesn't have a great track record for their modern games which are complex enough as single player games. Now you suggest we should have faith that they can handle the up front capital costs, huge increase in complexity in the backend, client, and "rule sets"?

Skyrim was their most stable release they have done in decades but it had crippling issues. In an MMO market letting bugs sit for weeks or months will kill the game entirely. The MMO marketplace is littered with a lot of dead games that failed to execute in one way or another. The odds are stacked pretty high against Bethesda no matter how you look at the situation.

This situation reminds me of Square-Enix where they too thought it would be easy to take their brand strong, easily recognizable RPG and scale it up to MMO levels and rake in the money. It turns out FF11 works but it was much much much more work than initially thought and FF14 was a disaster.

So it will be an Elder Scrolls game in which none of my actions can have a lasting effect on the world?

As long as they stay away from shitty 'MMO quests' and shitty endgame grinding, and generally everything that's shitty about MMOs then I'm all for this. I want an Elder Scrolls MMO, not an MMO that reminds me of Elder Scrolls.

Awesome, just what the series didn't need, and no one asked for. Thanks a bunch.

This will be interesting. I love the Elder Scrolls World. I just hope it doesn't turn out like Star Wars: TOR for me.

@JuxJuxJux: Two completely different studios and circumstances. But when a game from a proven development studio is announced that has been worked on for years it's stupid to automatically assume that it's going to be bad.

As this is made by Zenimax Online Studios which hasn't developed any games yet, I'm a bit sceptical.

I sure hope that part of the Bethesda Game Studios is making Fallout 4 right now...

How well would the series even adapt to an MMO format anyway? Would it be like a massively multiplayer Grand Theft Auto? I imagine that's the only way to keep the original appeal, by keeping exploration and random world events in the game.

Who asked for this? Love the series but I think an mmo is the wrong direction for it, maybe co-op but even that might be too far. Not sure how the gameplay would even translate to multiplayer without some significant changes. I'm not too surprised though, I imagine we'll see mass effect online eventually.

@sagebirt said:

Where's the enthusiasm people? We haven't played it yet! imagine being able to go to all these places in Tamriel, it's going to be huge!!

I really do want to explore all of Tamriel, but MMO just isn't my thing. I can never play MMOs, nor will i ever.

I have been done with MMO's for a while but I will wait and see.

Would have rather had Fallout Online....

Time to say goodbye to some close friends...

This is like back when after FFX they announced the next game would be an MMORPG and I got all sad. I'm all sad again. :(

I would just buy this to explore the world and not even care about the quests.

@zoskia said:

not fallout 4. do not want.

Exactly.

Whyyyyyyyyy?

:( but why must they eat ALL of my life? isnt 200 hours every year enough for bethesda?

Dont care about an elder MMO. Now if you told me they were making an elder scrolls with local/online multiplayer. This would be a different story.

awesome! , saves talking to these verbally reapting diarrhea npc's

@Rirse said:

MMO are the most boring game series. Never played one, never will.

An entire industry dedicated to it would like to have a word with you. Then again, if you meant that as your personal opinion, cool story brah.

@matthias2437: If you're talking about Bethesda, the only thing they've proven is that they're overly ambitious to the point of releasing buggy/broken games. I'm not saying that their games aren't 'good' in the sense that they have decent story lines, quests, etc., but I am saying that they're usually busted, and that ruins a LOT of the enjoyment I personally get out of their games. So yeah, it might be stupid to assume that the game will be bad, but I'm not assuming that. I'm assuming that it will be broken and thus ruin the experience for me (and probably plenty of other people).

What a bunch of moaning fuckheads. You haven't even heard any details or viewed any potential gameplay. Thousands of people bitched about the lack of coop/multiplayer when Skyrim was released - so perhaps they are attempting to appease their fans etc.

Personally, if this is like Skyrim, but with coop/multiplayer then I for one would be excited for this. People hear MMO and they think WoW gameplay. If they do go that route then Ill poopoo this announcement with the rest of you. But until that time why don't we reserve judgement huh.

ZERO interest

Why did I buy Skyrim? Because it has many rare things

1. Expansive single player

2. No day 1 dlc ripped out or shitty costumes/cheat codes for sale

3. No exclusive in game pre order bullshit

4. No online pass bullshit.

An elder scrolls mmo couldn't be further from what I want.

So that happened.

I don't see TES working as an MMO. In addition to that I don't give a shit about MMOs.

FUS-RAH-DONOTWANT!

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the Elder Scrolls games? They're meant to be single player MMOs, so... this will be a multiplayer singleplayer mmo... with much worse graphics because they need to program it for the lowest common denominator.

The last beloved properties that tried to make the leap from single player RPG to MMO were Final Fantasy and KOTOR, and honestly they're not doing all that great. Why put that ongoing burden on yourselves?

@Rirse said:

MMO are the most boring game series. Never played one, never will.

Never played one yet apparently they're the most boring game series.

What a moron.

fuck mmos

@JakeBond said:

awesome! , saves talking to these verbally reapting diarrhea npc's

I'm sure many MMO communities spout glorious conversations....

Best of luck to the team working on this, but I give zero fucks about MMOs.

GLHB, guys.

::Sigh:: No thanks.

The Elder Scrolls online? Bethesda can't even code a working single-player game.