Finally realizing my QQing isn't going to change anything, I only have one request at this point and that is to change the title of the game. Redguard and Battlespire all had different series titles, I want Zenimax to do the same just to clarify that this is separate than that of the main series.

Legends of the Elder Scrolls Online?

Elder Scrolls: Legends?

How about just "Scrolls." Awwwwwwwwww snap!

They already did that with battlespire

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

lol legal jokes

Yeah, I agree. "[Add title here] - An Elder Scrolls Online Game" would be a much more honest name.

Its an TES game no matter how you look at it , although i wish they would have saved the name for a real TES online game, full loot open world pvp with skill based combat and advancement and all , but the bottom line is they didnt, and the name still fits this game no matter if we dont like the combat style and advancement or not.


A few things to note that people forget.


TES games ALWAYS had class's.

TES games have been (able to be) played in 3rd person for many many many years now.

TES games are no longer skill based, we learned that in Skyrim, and they indeed go by an EXP system , we just don't see it.


in the end all that has changed for TESO that wasnt already changed in Skyrim is the combat system, and the art has a little more color in it.

Of course the name is not ridiculously wrong, but a MMO will always fail to deliver a TES experience. Not that I think, TESO will be a bad game, it just will play nothing like an offline TES. And I feel, only games with a TES-spirit inside should have TES in front of their name.

At your "forgotten points":
- Right, they had classes, but you always were able to use and train skills that were not matching your class. Although it is not confirmed so far, I have a strong feeling this won't be able in this game which binds you much more on your chosen class than any other TES game.
- Noone would complain about an optional 3rd person view. But the 1st person was always part of the TES experience for me. I know there are lots of people playing Skyrim in 3rd person, but I felt always better in 1st.
- I don't see your point. In Skyrim you train your skills still by using them, not by slaining enemies to increase your lockpicking.

Yea im not sure if we see TES in the same way, i can explore a vast open world, meet tons of people and get quests, listen to story's and hear about the world, i can delve into dungeons or old ruins or caves and find loot and fame, i can advance my character and and basically enjoy world full of story's and adventure. All of this they can deliver in a mmorpg.


In Skyrim when i play i can train my skills by using them killing creatures or people just as in an exp based rpg and i can build my crafting skill by ... crafting just as in a mmorpg the exp number might be in the background in Skyrim but they are there none the less.

Note how it doesn't have a number, just that shows that it isn't part of the main series. The word Online there is precisely what you are asking for. The expansions will probably be titled Elder Scrolls Online : Something or other.

I don't know if a name change would help really. Though I would like it if it was rather called Elder Scrolls Legends: Online or something like that just to distinguish it more from the series.

I know all the people saying 1000 years prior makes it safe from the lore but it doesn't. That is WAY too close to the beginning of the series for comfort. If you read the books you know that there are events recorded from the time period. Local politics and the like wont matter but The Emporor at the time WILL matter, and Zenimax design of the new provinces will matter a LOT.

If they would simply declare the entire game non-canon I would be happy.
If they do not declare it non-canon Zenimax would be pretty much forcing Bethesda to go off of their landscape designs.

It would be a free fix to ALL the troubles here.

And that's my problem, people are saying it won't effect the next Elder Scrolls because its made by separate companies but it will still have a big effect on the lore and the visual of future games.

How about: "WoW, It's TES Online"?

I got it

An Elder Scrolls Sellout: Online

Elder Scrolls: Battles

The late-game PvP conquest is a prime element, after all.

I propose Tamriel Online. That's really what it is. It's the Tamriel setting with derivative MMO gameplay and design principles. It's not TES, which means so much more than the lore. TES inspires thoughts of free form character advancement, random wandering, sandbox features, player houses full of collected clutter, a living world, non-combat ai, contracting magical diseases, and shaping the world with your actions. All stuff you can't do on the Tamriel Theme Park ride unvieled by Zenimax Online Studios. So yeah, Tamriel Online, not TES Online. TES Online would implement the core design principles of TES in online form.

Tamriel Online invokes a much more generic and accurate picture. A static stage set of Tamriel, where you can wander around and do or repeat content with everyone else while you collect loot and queue battlegrounds to see who is 1337er.

In all seriousness: good idea.

I second that.

One of the reasons I was so massively disappointed in the info revealed is that TES is more of an experience and game type to me than a setting. Tamriel is the setting, and while I love it; it's much less important than the experience given. Fallout 3 is much more of a "TES" game to me than TESO, because I *FEEL* the same way when I play it as I do when I play say Skyrim or Morrowind. I'm completely immersed in this first person crazy open world RPG where any strange, wonderful thing could be lurking around the next corner.

I definitely don't feel that way when I play an MMO with timer-based hotkey combat, and a theme park approach towards the content. I don't get that vibe from repeating content ad naseum in an ironically named "heroic" mode. Fact is, I don't get that from standard MMO derived content at all. Only a few indy MMO's that were way underfunded have given me that, and to a lesser extent Eve and UO.

Something as simple as a name change would let me throw it into the category of don't care, and drop my disapointment, knowing if we EVER do get a game called The Elder Scrolls Online, it will play and feel like an Elder Scrolls game, ONLINE.