That could be one reason.

I went over to a friends house and I have never played Call of Duty online yeah I know I play Call of Duty but we played with the headphones off because of the morons on there. It could be a need to feed their ego, and I will play co-op not MMOs but I will play co-op with friends alone on games that is made for that. It would be annoying to have somebodyy cuss you out because they killed you and you hear that person every five minutes.

I like the sabbatical I get from my RPGs I have always loved them and I will continue to love my single player games, why because I enjoy games for their stories and I enjoy The Elder Scrolls for their stories and lore covering several thousand years and I can make up my own characters and stories within the lore. I also have friends that tie our lore together and that is an interesting twist on things.

It's NOT feasible to add multiplayer capability of any kind to an already released game that was coded for single player only.

There's no built in support for it. If there was the Multiplayer mods would be having an easier time and not having to use hacked together third party programs just to get to the basic stage they are at (And will probably never progress past)

In order to add even co-op to Skyrim, Bethesda would have to take the game back, tear apart the code and start writing in the neccesary code at the very bottom level. They'll basically have to start over and rebuild the game code from scratch with the new code intergrated. That would take quite a long time especially considering they don't have experience with multiplayer code nor do they have many people skilled with using and writing it.

Plus who's want to tell a bunch of devs to essentially tear up their work and start over.

Even then, after all the coding the game still needs to be balanced for having two human players running around.

It ain't gonna happen. Besides Bethesda have said they could never find a way to do it without affecting the single player experience negatively so they have no intention of bothering.


And as an aside. Those games that have a multiplayer/Co-op DLC? The multiplayer is already released with the game, all the DLC does is 'activate' it and add menu options.

Zenimax Online has been working on something for 4 years now
Anything multiplayer set in Tamriel will be made by them and will be completely seperate from the SP TES series
Bethesda have said numerous times they'd rather concentrate on making TES the best SP experience they can make it and I see no reason why they would change their mind after Skyrim's success

Sure its a tes game?

This is the other reason why i keep buying Beth's games, they don't screw over single player for multiplayer

Alas, Bioware too has sunked to those depths with Mass Effect 3

No.

TES are single player games. Always have been. That's how they're designed and that's how they're played.

Why are people against single player games? Sometimes I just wanna kick back, relax and do my own thing at my own pace and not listen to a bunch of morons running around attacking a tree or something stupid like that. Why does every game these days have to have multiplayer? Why? WHYYYY?! ... Makes my blood boil I tell ya.

Have to say my dream DLC wouldnt be co-op but a downloadable mahoosive castle to store all my loot and defend against the odd bandit.. Jus sayin

sounds like a good way to troll people, I wouldn't download this for free.

I agree, I can enjoys some battlefield 3 every now and then but play multiplayer to long and and I just get into a really crappy mood.

That is one reason I have stayed as well.

Well first Mass Effect great game then, the second became an action game now with the third they are like now lets add multiplayer. What a joke.

There will be no on-line co-op/multiplayer. If you want to discuss the possibility for future ES games please do so in this topic -

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1320106-official-tes-multiplayerco-op-thread/