Because this MMO is just going to be some absurd generic-MMO cartoon crap branded with Elder Scrolls made by an entirely different company. The team who make ACTUAL Elder Scrolls games (Bethesda Game Studios) are not involved and thus have not had their priorities squandered.


Also, keep in mind - the senior team at Bethesda Game Studios are very much champions of the "Single Player" camp. They are on record as saying explicitly that they aren't fans of the idea.


Basically, the single player games are not affected by this. At least, only in trivial ways. Thus, as much as I loathe this MMO idea.... as much as I understand how awful the concept of multiplayer is in Elder Scrolls, I can acknowledge that Zenimax have deliberately kept them separate games under different developers, so there isn't much tangible reason to rage.

Except if you wanted the MMORPG and were excited about that...
only to find out that ... surprise surprise... is WOW clone number whogivesa[censored] all over again

^ This. I've been waiting forever for a TES MMO, but this isn't what I wanted at all. It's incredibly disappointing.

This will sully the TES reputation. It adds lore that does not seem to make sense and is it even cannon. A lot of people are concerned about how this will affect the single player games. I hope Bethesda make a statement re-defining that they are a seperate team and will continue making the true single player TES expereience.

The only positive I can see from this is that this sideshow gives Bethesda time to make TES VI closer to it's roots and more along the Morrowind/Daggerfall lines

That is a problem endemic to all MMOs, whose fundamental purpose are to create an economic micro-transaction system to harvest money out of consumers through perpetual tasks.

I'm trying to relax, I really am. However, it will take a least few days for me to simmer down to reasonable.

Lol try modding skyrim, it'll take your mind off from this....
Looking at scripts now is alot more meditative then the announcement.

No wait i was wrong..........Scripts....not working.....Bugs....RAGE RISING!!!! OMGWTFBBQ!~~!!!!!!!! *Boom*

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It is simple. Try the game out in beta or play release for a month and if you don't like it move on and wait for the next single player ES that Bethesda releases. Might have to wait several years but it will come eventually.

Actually in the last few years seems to be endemic to the whole videogame industry
Making DLCs after DLCs, expansions that adds very little and costs a whole new game.
And honestly I don't see that as a better way to do business.

I mean .. sure .. you make a WOW clone and you get money for that .. for the first ... 2? 3 months?
I mean how many games crashed and burned after few months and were made free to play?

Isn't better to make a game right, even if it appeals to a smaller crowd, but keep them interested for years?
Because I usually stop playing a elder scroll games just when the new one is out... with an MMO done right I would simply not stop...
I would be willing to pay a monthly fee up to 20-25$ for the years to come and I see myself playing that kind of game as long as they support it.
Financially, is Like releasing a new skyrim every 2-3 months...

How many months will this game endure before getting dull like every single game made in the same way?

I'm gonna sound like an old woman but *rants about games and back in my day bla bla bla*

I think I will stick to playing games that came out pre 2007 thanks

The way games are made and sold is going in completly the wrong direction.