Title says it all.

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Even if they don't like someone playing around with their sandbox, there's not much they can say about it due to the parent company pulling the strings. Given the hate they've espoused for multiplayer and the concept of an MMO in past interviews, I can't imagine they're too satisfied about this.

well if you believe todd howards past quote, they shouldnt be too happy

I believe those quotes are in reference to Todd himself (and his team). He personally doesn't want to make an MMO TES, and he isn't. That doesn't say what he thinks of an MMO TES in general, or this MMO TES in specific.

Unfortunately given that BGS and ZOS are both part of Zenimax and they both have gamesas as a publisher, I would expect BGS to say nothing short of "It's awesome" regardless of what they actually think.

Similar to what Bran said. I'm pretty sure Todd Howard of the team are not happy. If I'm not mistaken, they made it abudently clear that wanted nothing to do with a Elder Scrolls mmo.
Me? I'm utteraly mortafied. This could single handedly destroy one of the greatest game series of all time. A seriers that counts game of the year awards, Rpg of the year awards, and PC game of the years awards, all by the dozens if not hundreds.
A game seriers that went from "average" with ES Arena and ES Daggerfall, to completely revolutionizing rpg gaming AND graphical beauty with morrowind.

The Elder Scrolls is about going out and exploring vast, hand crafted universes and beautiful scenaries. A universe where nearly every NPC had their own story. And their own unique quests or jobs that actually meant something in that part of the world. A universe that the Player could mold through his or her own actions and reap both the benfits of such descisions and consequences. And these descicions would affect both the player and the world around him.
You cannot capture the Elderscrolls in a mmo. A mmo is meant for masses of people that want to grind and win gear nd have fun with pals. And that can be awesome, perhaps just as cool as the ES. But that isn't what the Elderscrolls is about.
You can't keep the feel of vast wonders and quests in a mmo. You can't feel like the hero who saved the entire land from the invasion of Mahrunes Dagon when there are 50,000 other hero of kvatch's. You can't feel like the Dragon slayer of old tales, when there are 100,000 others just like you, many with far more dragon kills and shout then you. How can you?

The Elderscrolls is a rpg. Not an mmo. And no matter how good the game is, it still won't do the series any justice, because it won't be the Elderscrolls. It will be a good rpg game that uses the Elder scrolls name as a title.
And if this game really is going to be poorly made, I can only hope for a quick blowout and a silent death to he mmo so that the rest of the actual series can remain unscarred incase this game will... well svck. But this is ofcourse only the case if the game does svck. which I hope it doesn't, but I certainly don't approve as of now.

And considering a vast majority of the elder scrolls fanbase are almost universally against this move, I wonder how the makers actually feel. They may not care about our opinion (or perhaps they really do), but early evidence of negativety certaintly does not make for a good outlook for future sales.

Bethesda as a publishing arm are known as greedy bastards who will do anything more money at any-cost (New Vegas, BRINK, Wet and all non-BGS games really)

As for BGS, well it's made up of many people each with their own opinions.

If the MMO turns out to be a flop, they may be slightly offended by the misuse of their IP.

But honestly, it won't affect their future work on TES, so (I can't speak for them) I don't imagine they hate it all too much.

My suspicions are:

1. (Just told about it) Really? Wow. Hmm it could work. A number of our boys had had some pretty good ideas for multiplayer gameplay if we even went into it.

2. (Been told another studio is handling it) Ok. Well good luck. Tell us know when you need help with any lore.

3. (Been shown the alpha demo) http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/001/582/picard-facepalm.jpg?1240934151

i believed the BGS team are not happy with it.
just like the original Bioware team are not happy with the way EA controlled them a few years ago. But what else can they do?

THIS. Hahaha, after all this bad news I needed a laugh. xD

This sums it up, pretty much.

Yeah cause Todd is always perfectly honest and has never deceived the public ever.

Er Hem. Did you actually play daggerfall?? It was leagues ahead of morrowind. Even though morrowind is still AMAZING.

The same way that they were not interested in Kinnect. But really, who cares, nobody has to play it if they don't want to.

I'd love to hear Michael Kirkbrides' opinion on this. Hilarity would ensue.

I get the feeling they didn't really like the idea but Zenimax said screw that, we're doing it anyway, this franchise is gonna make tons of money.

Kirkbride said he thinks its in good hands, somehwere in the lore fourms.

Hate? Way to spin things with that lovely hyperbole. Todd has said they are interested in multiplayer, but it's not something they feel they want to focus their time on so far. That you spin that as "hate" is indicative of projection or a bad case of presumption.

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You're kidding? Well. That was unexpected.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1371463-what-will-we-do-about-elder-scrolls-online/page__st__60__p__20723228#entry20723228

"The project is in good hands, everyone, rest assured.

Now all I need are a few Bouyant Armigers and Whirling School Mystics to help me take the throne."

I... I don't even know what to say. That wasn't what I would have predicted at all.

My opinion is since

1. The game is copying GW1 and 2 more then WoW
2. Kirkbride says it's in good hands

why should I think it wont be at least decent. I doubt it will be great but..... does it NEED to be great to be fun?

Yes, actually, to capture the players and get them into it it will need either get an extremely great stroke of luck, or, most likely, drop its current mechs and rebuilt from the ground up.