Though The Elder Scrolls is a close-to-perfect and loved franchise I have an idea that will only benefit the player's experience and cost little effort on the development standpoint. My idea is to add a Co-operative function to Skyrim and include it in later Elder Scrolls games. This had porbably been suggested before, but just hear me out. This would take a bit of work to set up some co-op functions and menu changes but the payoff would probably be well recieved. The Elder Scrolls had always been a great RPG and reciently been a more engrossing experience. It would be so easy to add a little Co-op function and let it run wild in mods and such ( I dont know if you can just make a co-op mod but I'd assume not since it sound like it would be more complex). Think about it, the groundwork and the whole world is already laid out, now all you would have to do is throw in some other side quest chains and tie up loose ends with conflicting story plots and your good! You could even put in a seperate Co-op main story plot if Bethesda gets commited. I'm just saying it sounds silly to have this massive world and no one to play it with when it is so easy to add that function in.
Thanks!
No, it wouldn't be easy. The game engine was built from the ground up for single player. There is no "easy" way to slap co-op or multiplayer code in the game. There is another studio that is working on a multiplayer something. Hopefully they'll release some information about it.
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1239188-official-tes-multiplayerco-op-thread/
Use this thread for discussion of multiplayer/co-op.