Dont want Beth to take the KOTOR route

To some small degree it will but not like KOTOR. The main series will continue.

Thank God.

It will not. It is

- set in an earlier time period before the Elder Scrolls saga began
- developed by an entirely different team
- probably going to sustain itself on its own profits

All signs point towards an Elder Scrolls VI on the (distant) horizon.

I wanted to know this immediately. As long as it doesn't [censored] with the lore, adn add future lore through continuous expansions or something than I'm good.

maybe it could be set in the past, like 1st Era. That way it won't destroy the single player series.

https://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/198430022162317312

The Pete has spoken.

Not at all. Zenimax online is doing this, Bathesda is doing the single player stuff. Two different studios, so... yeah. No effect.

Oh thank God! Praise the Lord!! Hallelujah!!

Now I just hope they don't do this to Fallout. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?&app=forums&module=extras§ion=legends#

This was and is one of my biggest fears of this game. I seriously hope it doesn't. I know WoW the mmorpg affected how the RTS based warcraft games were produced. That is to say, they completely stopped after WoW came out.

I am sure it will have some effect on the single player games just like the wings of a butterfly can supposedly be blamed for abnormal weather patterns, just what those effects will be is unknown at this point in time.

this

Stuff like that is all theoretical. If they set it in the past then there shouldn't be any problems of screwing with continuity, they'll more than likely butcher the lore, but if it's in the past they couldn't possibly [censored] up continuity. Who am I kidding they probably could.

This series was in dire need of change. We needed this.

No it wasn't, and no we didn't.

Why should it effect the Single Player TES Series?

One week ago we knew nothing about a TES MMORPG (which is in the making since 2007)

And now suddendly Bethesda and Zenimax would ditch all those Console sales and make a PC only Titel?

Do you guys actually think before you post?

2 different Studios End of the Story.

The Series is always changing....in fact thats where all the hate from new games comes from....every game is pretty different from the last.

Except there's one unignorable, major difference. World of Warcraft is set approximately half a decade, I believe, after the events of Warcraft III. All of the story in that is brand spankin' new.

TES:O will be set a millenia before Skyrim.

World of Warcraft didn't end Warcraft just because it existed. It ended Warcraft because it continued Warcraft's role as a continual series. It took the plot of Warcraft over. TES:O won't do this - it will create story within the bounds of past canon. Blizzard clearly didn't want to continue the RTS Warcraft series, because they set WoW after III, meaning that the RTS simply couldn't continue. Zenimax clearly intends for the single-player series to continue because they set TES:O long before any Elder Scrolls game, even though it would be easier to work without the bounds of canon after Skyrim.

Do you? A game set in the same fictional universe, running on the same lore, following the same continuity, will have new lore that could affect the Single Player game's in a negative way, especially since thsi game isn't being done by Bethesda. What were you thinking before you posted.

None of the lore changes or likely muck ups really matter prior to Tiber septim. We can just say he used his CHIM powers to change [censored]. Honestly it's been done before. Oblivion was supposed to be set in a Jungle Empire not a Roman-ish generic medieval fantasy setting.

So even lorewise this MMO cannot really affect the single player games by much. Just like Arena didn't really affect much of the provinces after it. If Bethesda wants to change something they will. Little disasters like the great collapse could be used to save dev time by destroying what is supposed to be a fully dveloped city for instance...

Remember TESO is the 2nd TES game to have all the provinces. And it is set at least 750 years before any game in the main series and at a time where we know very little about what was going on. Just a few minor details.

Im sorry kid but i talk about business here.

Shareholders would never allow a company to ditch their Main income source (console players).
Again start thinking before you post.

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But my god that is insulting, some guy with a "my little pony" avatar calling someone else a child, oh the shame!

But in all seriousness you would be a naive fool to think that the TES MMO wont have an effect on any Single Player TES games released in the future for better or worse. At best we may get a few books detailing the events of the mmo, at worst any currently unexplored provinces featured in future installments of the single player Elder Scrolls series could take design cues from how they were portrayed in the MMO.

oh the Irony

100% Wrong!

Perhaps. But that wasn't my point. Whether or not the story continued is not the matter at hand. It's thefact that a RTS Warcraft game was completely uprooted and transformed into a mmo and never to return back to it's roots. That is what I fear could happen to the elderscrolls. Although unlikely and improbable, I do believe it is a legitimate concern if the game turns into a instant monetary success explosion as WoW did. Though again, it is highly unlikely this would ever happened as 2 different developers are making the series now. But fear can overtake even the strongest willed nerds

That is true.

Infact you can't really compare it to the Warcraft Series, since those where PC only Titels.
TES beeing a succesfull Multiplatform Game, they will always try to get money out of Console Players.