Just as much as I want to get a second chance of destroying the Dark Brotherhood, I want to be able to destroy the Thieves Guild. There are plenty of ways which Bethesda could do this in, but I'd prefer if we were given a questline with the goal to destroy the Thieves Guild.

Maybe this questline would involve capturing Maven and either send her on exile or execute her. Maybe we could get a Dark Brotherhood mission to assassinate her. Maybe we could get a deeper backstory for Mjoll (who would likely aid you). Maybe we could get Stormcloak/Legion support in form of soldiers. There are a lot of possibilities...

If you have already joined the Thieves guild but regret your choice, maybe you could betray them or choose to work undercover?

Maybe the thieves guild players could get a new questline that focuses on sabotaging for those who want to destroy the Thieves Guild (so it would be a different version of the same questline)?

In the end of the questline, maybe you could get to choose what to do with the Thieves Guild HQ. Maybe you could use it as a player home, maybe you could renovate it and make it into an additional market (and the Ratway would be renovated for apartments maybe?)



What do you think?

I'd like the option to run her out of town, take over her business, and become the real power in Riften myself.

That would be an awesome option too!

It'd be too easy to destroy the Guild. The mission would pretty much be just to take care of Maven then the Dark Brotherhood (since she'll get them to kill you).
Bethesda would also have to get a new Jarl candidate
It'd probably be Mjoll as aforementioned.

please bethesda! i want totally to destroy the Thieves guild since i've first visited Riften with my might knight after a long jorney in her trust steed ><
they annoy the hell out of me, my knight can't stand even the sight of that filthy thieves without wanting to put their heads in spears at the center of Riften ??

There could be a mod for that

I don't think the Legion would have any problem with replacing someone as corrupt as her really.

Besides, maybe this could be a part of the civil war questline (if the player chooses to) where the player suggests an attack on Riften (with the Stormcloaks) where they both take over and weaken the Thieves Guild.