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Would not be unlikely. They have started with selling titles on XBox and PS3 and hold a growing number of game titles. So it could just be that they want another piece of the cake.

I would not want to play it. Probably will not be any PvP in it. Or would you want to run around and just go Fus-Ro-Da on others?

Throw in some vampires and a Earth's near future setting and it shall become World of Darkness.

tES games lean ENTIRELY on immersion.

Nothing destroys immersion like other people, be it a town full of randumbs chasing chickens and spamming 'INVTME TO GROUP ANYTHING', or a gold farmer camping in the middle of an area you're hunting in, or some guy running past you coming down off the MOUNTAIN OF DOOM where you are going to slay the EVIL DRAGON that he... just killed...

Unless the game was HEAVILY instanced I would not play it. I mean straight up DDO style one or two towns and everything else is instanced is what it would take, IMHO.

I doubt there would be dragon shouts in the mmo game since in the lore there's only couple occasions where dragonborns are mentioned - first one was the first emperor and now the player is one in Skyrim.

Also another article speculated that the mmo would be placed a millenium before the Skyrim's age, to the second era, meaning it would roughly be at the time when there was Tsaesci invasion (vampire lizardmen) from the Akavir continent to Tamriel - this would be perfect for pvp also as one faction could belong to Tsaesci and rest would be Tamriel's empire factions. According the timeline there was also civil wars during the second era (suitable for pvp as well). Basically the mmo events would be before any events in the other elder scrolls games

If they indeed are making Elder scrolls mmo, I hope it's a huge world in a single server just like Eve. Those of you who remember Daggerfall know that Bethesda has the knowhow to make huge worlds as Daggerfall's landmass was roughly about the size of Great Britain (took over two weeks of real time to run the landmass from one end to the other)

I'm bit skeptical about the news so I'll wait for the actual announcement that's supposed to happen in May - Bethesda might be making Fallout mmo game instead. If they make either one, I would play it

Ok now since others have given their opinion, I can give mine lol. The reason why this is a bad idea, is because they will never be able to deliver the immersion that is found in any of the Bethesda Game Studios games (i.e. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim) and bring that immersion into a multiplayer game

I play EVE not because it is a "niche" game, but rather because of the lack of rules (though even that is dying to accommodate carebears in high-sec with a death to such mechanics as s. ganking and ninja salving), and I have never played another MMO simply because like most people who play games, it never appealed to me.

An Elder Scrolls MMO could appeal to me, but several things would have to happen

1. Character progression would have to be identical to the single player games, in that you have to use specific skills to gain progression in certain skills. In Skyrim there were 18 skills with over 200+ perks that could be chosen to build a character to your specifications, but through the course of the game, only 81 perks could be chosen during character progression. If they were to keep this idea in place, add skills, and continue making each player spec out characters.....it could be fun to see the combos that players come up with

2. Keep first person mode.....Elder Scrolls is not Elder Scrolls without it

3. It must be a single shard universe, with all of Tamriel accessible, at all times, for all players. Even access to sea vessels and access to the Sommerset Isles. Future expansions would have to include things such as the Akavir continent, the planes of Oblivion, or the plane in which the Dwemer were transported when they tapped Heart Of Lorkhan in the Battle of Red Mountain

Now these may sound like stupid requests, but these things are what makes TES the game it is. Now in my personal opinion, Bethesda could do better if they went the EVE Online route, but went that direction with Fallout rather than TES. Fallout could be single shard, with the post-apocalyptic U.S. as the playground. Make griefing allowed, since after all, it is the post apocalypse. Make territory conquerable, with not only other players trying to steal territory, but also the factions such as the NCR or the Brotherhood trying to steal it as well. This I wouldn't be opposed to. But this is just my two cents

TES is a series of games that is not like WoW (which entered MMO stasis after a mere 3 games.) Instead it has five games, a much larger single player following than the regular Warcraft games had, and a much much deeper storyline than Warcraft ever had. While Fallout has quite a following now as well, the transition could be so much cleaner to MMO status

But again, just my opinion

As stated it could either be blow you away awesome or a complete failure before it's even out.

The most important factor for me is keeping the open class thing alive. Screw being tank, healer, rogue, or mage like the other 300 sword n board mmo's are, let the players decide how they want to build their characters with the skill system. Not only will it be unique, it will also destroy the age old cycle of X class is OP debates. Quite frankly, if I don't see the skill system in place, I won't even bother keeping an eye on it.

I also hope that the twitch gameplay sticks around as well. I love that in skyrim you aren't weighed down with 50 hotkey's of abilities. Unfortunately I don't think this will be as easy to maintain due to the nature of not being able to pause in a mmo to switch skills so at the very least I hope they keep the hotkey's short n sweet.

Lastly I really hope that they cut down on the grind and give more content control to players as we have in Eve. I doubt this will be the case at all though and I am sure we'll fall into the usual pattern of drooling our way through the same 20 epic dungeons daily to get enough points to earn that piece of epic gear, all the while the casuals complain about not being able to get the loot due to being casual and the hardcores will tell the casual to stfu and earn it like everyone else all the while telling the dev's the content is too easy and that they need more content 2 days after the latest has been released.


you can make the world as large as you want, everyone still has to go the X on the mini-map for his/her quest.



Oh god I hope not. I quit Rift because I got so sick of mob and quest grinding that I couldn't even stand the thought of logging in again to get my character to max rank.

No. I mean immersion like immersion.

If Bethesda do this, I fully expect it to be so buggy that it too will be in line with the rest of their ****** games.

As for being independent, they are not, they are owned by Zenimax.

Heh, Elderscrolls MMO? The only reason why TES is so great is because they're selling their game as a singleplayer.

Thats the selling point of their game. To focus on making the best singleplayer experience. They have not deviated for a long, long time.

Last time, I was thinking of how Morrowind could be multiplayer. I came to the conclusion that, no matter what you change, it will lose it's appeal to TES fans.

First, the sleep system. How is it going to work with multiple players?

Second, NPCs. If its multiplayer, NPCs can't stay dead forever. They need to be revived.

These 2 are the main things I'm struggling with. If there is a way to change these without altering what TES is about, then by all means, make an MMO. If not, leave that genre alone.

Don't get me started on "WoW killers". All MMO that has that in mind will fail. Guaranteed. Because they're too busy fighting another MMO than to make a great one themselves. Stupid companies. Hiring degree holders but still messing **** up. See how smart they are.

Well, if it was more like Daggerfall with a massive epic game world, old school vampires and wereboars cus wereboars r coo' And, hopfully it would also be a true sandbox with medieval political systems. That'd be the tops.

However, I bet it would be a sad Skyrim/WoW mashup love child with faction grind, quests and crap.