Ok Bethesda you have officially pissed me off by announcing this monstrosity. I kinda knew you guys were on the bandwagon but I didn't want to believe this would happen. Is anyone as pissed as I am about this?

I'm not sure what to think yet, but I'm mostly concerned about it's effect on TES universe. I'v played a few MMOs in my time, and i enjoyed them but I just don't think this universe will lend it self well to the genre. I hope I'm proven wrong but for now I'm not getting my hopes up.

Good luck to all parties involved though I hope you make a great game.

How about you read the information before you throw a tantrum?

Except that you have no clue what you are talking about, and Bethesda has nothing to do with this MMO. It's Zenimax, not Bethesda.

Anyway, my opinion? I'm cautiously hopeful. Worse case scenario, I'll not buy it and that's that. I'll probably try it out though, no reason not to. It's good they are doing this.

I'm...less than thrilled, to be frank.

For one: I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Bethesda, you can't have an MMO until you learn to QA properly. Because there aren't going to be mods around to fix the eighty million and two broken quests for you, and Divines know I won't pay a subscription to beta test it for you. Even if it's F2P (which I hope it is; let's face it, you can't compete as a P2P MMO these days unless your name is "World of Warcraft"...and even then it's questionable), I'm still not thrilled about the idea.

For two: the lore nerd in me took one look at the proposed storyline and did an epic facepalm. Depending on how they implement it, what they're suggesting (Molag Bal trying to haul Tamriel into a realm of Oblivion) should...not be possible within the established lore. Either because of Sotha Sil's pact with the Daedra (including Molag Bal) at the end of the First Era, or because, you know...the eight towers that hold up Tamriel and prevent that exact thing from happening were all still active during the Second Era (IIRC).

It took dismantling 2-3 towers (Red Mountain, White-Gold Tower via dousing the Dragonfires, and the Crystal Tower, which also fell during the Oblivion Crisis) for Mehrunes Dagon to elbow his way into Nirn during Oblivion. You'd think that Molag Bal doing the same thing would have come up at some point prior to this. (Not to mention that grandiose plots like that are...not really Molag Bal's thing. That's more Mehrunes Dagon's MO.)

So either they've shot the existing lore all to hell and back, or they're going to have to do this very, very carefully. And I remain thoroughly unconvinced about their ability to do it right at this point. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I'm not exactly leaping for my wallet and screaming "take all my money," either.

I feels this is the end of TES as we know it and have know it for all these years. Including all of Tamriel will show every province and therefore damage the single players games, taht is if they even continue to make them. It is a sad day.

I really wish this was an April Fools joke but Unfortunately its not april. Oh how this is a cruel joke Indeed.

Can't wait for the day when Todd Howard says he has a high level character on TESO and says he loves it... so many "OMG TES IS DOOMED!" people will instantly hop on.

I have to add an extra for the bolded part.

Get over it. and don't play it.

I read the bethblog's post I know that its not being made by BGS. It still makes me upset the fact that this exists.

I think all TES content should stay... well, single-player RPG-style. Do I hate this idea? YES. Will I after having played it? Possibly. Most likely yes, due to the feelings I have about the whole lore.

As someone who played World of Warcraft for a few years, (and still keeps up with the lore) I'm cautiously optimistic about this announcement. For those worried about stereotypical MMO players mucking up your Elder Scrolls experience, I'd like to say two things:

1. Any modern MMO will give you the option to turn off chat, name display, and many, many other things to make it so you never have to deal with other players if you want a single player experience.

2.I would imagine the servers will be split into pve, pvp, and role playing. Join a role playing server! Even if it isn't very in-character heavy, in my experience RP server people are just more friendly and less like to break your coveted "immersion."

If nothing else, this game will give us a chance to explore all of Tamriel Arena style but in fancy HD graphics!

Also, from my rough calculations it seems the MMO should take place somewhere around 550, 2nd Era. If it is in fact around 1000 years before Skyrim.

If we don't get a Red Mountain raid I will cry like a [censored].

I hope they treat it like an adventure/roleplaying game. Combat in MMOs stinks, no matter what MMO. So, my suggestions would be this. Don't copy WoW, style wise or gameplay wise, make it a very, very roleplay friendly environment, make it fun to explore, and make the economic side of things be good. The main thing it needs for me is. Spectacular roleplaying, good lore, non-WoW combat or style, good economics, and a beautiful world.

Bethesda would only drop single player RPGs if the next gen consoles allow for MMOs...

I'm sorry you seem so narrow minded.


Current gen consoles allow for MMOs...

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQcNwsjVEQ

I want to slap whoever signed The Elder Scrolls' death sentence.

And I refuse to believe it was Todd.

In fact, I refuse to believe anything other than Todd being against this bullcrap.

Dont know what you are trying to say but the old single player TES are problably doomed.

I feel great about it, as long as the single player games stay on their current path. I would love to be able to explore the full world of Tamriel, and the addition of other players might help make it feel more alive.

When I'm in the mood for the single-player experience, i'll play the traditional TES games. When i'm in the mood for a large "living & breathing" world and/or human interaction, I can hop into the mmo version. Best of both worlds in my opinion.

Gamers are so narrow minded...

I pray, how is having a cousin company make a spin-off prequel game to your franchise signing a death sentence? And to Milkiway, how is single-player TES doomed, bearing in mind my previous sentence?

No seriously, I want you to answer in detail how that works. I'm not all that happy with the idea of MMOs in their entirety but still, this sounds unreasonable.

How is this going to work exactly? Is this going to be available for PC and XBOX? Are Xbox users going to have to deal with PC users exploiting cheats and hacks, making them game inherently unfair? Also, I agree with the single player format for TES. This should not morph into a multiplayer game unless PC and XBOX/playstation users are on solid equal footing.

Yes the Daedric prince of maryland would never doom his beloved franchise. Whoever is responsible needs to be punished.

Final Fantasy XI is already cross-platform with PC, PS2/3 and 360.

Last I played it, there were no cheats or hacks available for it.