The Elder Scrolls Online

[DontSayBanana]

Yes, it'll bomb.  Elder Scrolls was a terrible candidate for an MMORPG from the start.  The whole appeal of the TES games has been the immersive, heavily individualized narrative.  If they tried that in MMO format, every player's chosen narrative would break someone else's who went with a different path.  Once you strip away the awesome narrative options, what you've got is a pretty generic high fantasy RPG.  That hasn't just been done to death since WoW, it's been done to death since EverQuest.

[Caliga]

Most likely empty suits called the shots on this one.

1. Hold popular IP (which is not suited to MMO gameplay at all)
2. Plan an MMO anyway since they make PROFIT
3. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????
4. PROFIT

[Bluebook]

You are all a bunch of naysayers. It will be a game many people cannot resist trying (me being one of them). If its good, it will do fine, if it is not, it will do bad. The Cyrodil-pvp-area is an awesome idea in my opinion and that alone is enough to get me to buy the game. On top of that you get all the pve action wherever you want.

[Grey Fox]

It will be a successful MMO but it will fail with it's sub model. It will have the same fate than SWTOR except with the rockiest of rocky launches.

[Caliga]

You are all a bunch of naysayers. It will be a game many people cannot resist trying (me being one of them). If its good, it will do fine, if it is not, it will do bad. The Cyrodil-pvp-area is an awesome idea in my opinion and that alone is enough to get me to buy the game. On top of that you get all the pve action wherever you want.

Don't get me wrong... I love TES and I would love for it to succeed.

[DontSayBanana]

Ditto Cal.  Subbed MMOs just aren't that much of a thing anymore, so the likelihood is that, good game or not, it's going to be an expensive mistake for Bethesda.

Also, I'm the wrong person to try to sell on a PvP area.  I don't do PvP, ever, because the kind of trash-talking, immersion-breaking idiots that tend to flock toward PvP areas are exactly the kind of I try to insulate myself from.  To me, it'd be kind of like having Lydia in Skyrim never shutting up about DPS or crit tank builds.

[garbon]

I download the mod that replaced Lydia with a man.

[11B4V]

Gay

[garbon]

Gay? I'll show you gay. I'll cut your face.

[11B4V]

 

They will call him Leonard or Leeroy

[garbon]

Ludwig

[Syt]

Ditto Cal.  Subbed MMOs just aren't that much of a thing anymore, so the likelihood is that, good game or not, it's going to be an expensive mistake for Bethesda.

Also, I'm the wrong person to try to sell on a PvP area.  I don't do PvP, ever, because the kind of trash-talking, immersion-breaking idiots that tend to flock toward PvP areas are exactly the kind of I try to insulate myself from.

Yep. I wished that MMOs would offer an offline mode where I'm free to roam the world without having to pay attention to anyone else. It's something that SWTOR and STO did well to some degree, because they were very soloable.

I think my point is that I often like the gameplay of MMOs, but not the MM part of it.

[FunkMonk]

Is it safe to assume that Elder Scrolls Online will not be nearly as moddable as it's single-player cousins?

[garbon]

Hey, was it better? I never ended up playing as Time Warner was all about the dropping of internet at random times, this weekend.

[crazy canuck]

If someone could recreate the fun that was had by playing Horde at the beginning of WoW when all the kiddies played Alliance and all the grownups played Horde that would be a game worth looking at.