No. The Elder Scrolls series has always been single player only. Because in each one you play THE pivotal role in the events.

Now a multiplayer adventure set in the the world of Nirn, of which Tamriel is but a part, even an MMO that is developed separately and by a different team formed expressly for the task would be welcome. But you will find the topic of multiplayer in the core Elder Scrolls series to be a very chaotic one.

In future gaming u nowadays hear people asking: "How is the multiplayer?" If Bethesda wants to compete in a way according to gaming standards, they should rethink their approach on next game development, not for me but for them from a point of marketing.

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Besides there is nothing cooler than to test ur outfit and skills on others to see whether ur strong or not and we learn much more in multiplayers from each other than in single player games

Going out day of release for a game and its not playable will do that to people. *shrug* 2 Games in a row (for me at least) that had nearly identical problems of constant crashing. I can point to a dozen other forums if ya like where the mods or devs at least came out and acknowledged the problems. Again as i said earlier, any attempt at communication no matter how insincere goes a long way. You know appease the angry mob

As a rule Bethesda game studio doesn't respond to threads in their forums. If they feel the need to publicly address an issue they will make a sticky thread and post there. You might notice that this has happened recently in the what we're working on thread.

As others have stated, this game is a done deal and once they have fixed the outstanding bugs and major performance issues they will move on.

You can expect that when the new content is released there will be new issues for them to deal with much like with their Fallout games.

Ummm have you seen the list that Bethesda doesn't want to acknowledge?
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1317665-unofficial-buglist/

Hope your not talking about this sticked what were working on thread....that refers to patch 1.2
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1300556-skyrim-what-were-working-on/

Oblivion was "saved"by outside fans. The "Unofficial Oblivion Patch" (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes4Mod:Unofficial_Oblivion_Patch) corrected over 1800 bugs!!! It should be around 5000 in Skyrim

While these are the official forums for Bethesda games they are not implemented as a support vehicle. If you want official support why not call the support line before you assume they don't care and will not help. They have a contact page at gamesas.com.

Yeah, it's not like Skyrim is the best selling Elder Scrolls game to date.. oh, hang on. It is. If the market is changing towards multiplayer then why would this same market buy games like Skyrim in ever greater numbers?

I hope they start on another elder scrolls rather than another fallout

I think skyrim has shown where the money is

The point I was trying to make is that the devs don't respond directly to peoples complaints. They respond indirectly when an issue is so big that it affects the whole player base, not just a few vocal posters on their forums where a lot of loud people complain about every little nit picky thing and whine incessantly about virtually nothing.

The reference to the sticky wasn't about any one thing but about how they address anything if they believe it to be necessary.

Uhm, wave your hand in Skyrim's direction. Several badly supported products in the one series and there latest one with equally bad customer service has been #1 seller and GOTY.

Because people playing multi-player, mostly play by themselves, except where forced to play with others. (Exceptions being small groups of friends forming parties. Small majority of actual players.)

By majority, games are still "personal entertainment". I don't care about how many chickens you killed, like you don't care about how many locks I picked. On assistive playing... I guarantee that you would get bored of me always mining your resources, and buying all the things you need from the shops, and killing your delicate "followers", because I thought they were attacking you... after you walked them half-way across the continent to some stupid location, to get a glowing-helmet that is 3 levels below your use. Multi-player is 90% novelty, and is like online-poker... You only find it fun, when the other players are stupid, blind, unskilled, or having technical difficulties that make them easy targets.

Sure its hard to answer on every single complain and thats not the thing i was expecting. But it looks like they dont reply to general topics either.

Post your char, what was your toughest fight, which npc you hate most... nothing.

Sorry to bring in eve again which is far from being perfect either. But they do

Dev blogs, dev chats, dev interviews

they participate in sometimes stupid but funny forum polls like rate my avatar

they appeared in game as ccp fleet the last weekends, and a lot of players chased them and finally made them go boom.

the latest new class shipmodels are user made and were the victors of a ship desgign competition. Imagine how cool it would be if bethesda would do the same for parts of the dlc, like custom swords, chars etc.

I mean. Bethesda's staff created a great game again. I bet they are proud of their work. They could show more precence.

If I were a Bethesda developer, I would not come near these forums, yeah they got a lot to answer for, unfortunately the responses and downright rudeness is ripe on these forums, someone yells at me to fix this and that I say go to hell, someone politely posts information about their problem and what their system setup is then I'd be glad to help, unfortunately the latter is very rare on these boards.

If you want to pay a subscription so that staff can be on salaries just to interact with players then cool. But I don't want any Elder Scrolls game to be subscription based.

For all those thinking that the players here are rude to Bethesda? You guys clearly were not in EvE during "monoclegate" 6 months ago. Did we get the developers CCP to change direction of the game development? H*ll Yes.

They had better talk if they want my money for DLCs.

its not us against them. If you want to rip somebody off, it could be done much easier.

Bethesda put a lot of work in this part of the elderscrolls. This is easy to see. Skyrim is already worth the money i paid.

Now if they continue / fix to improve the game beth can get even more money, but imho this also depends on how you communicate with your customers.

I agree... all this silence is getting me uneasy! they better communicate with us if they dont want to keep us spending money on this title.

Hasn’t anyone figured out that customer service is dead! It used to be; way back in the day that when you drove your car to the gas station you were greeted with 4 dudes that filled your tank cleaned your windows checked your oil etc. That doesn’t happen anymore with anything. People are no longer in business for making a quality product there in business of making money and there is a difference. But don’t take my word for it go down to just about any store or place of business and ask anyone that works there a question about their job and 9 times out of 10 they either don’t know or have to go and get someone (for some reason radio shack is the exception go figure). Capitalism over time has done nothing but made pigs of us all. This system is bound to fail; soon they won’t even need a reason to take your money in the first place let alone give you the courtesy as to why! Quite frankly I’m surprised we even get patches anymore. Anyway I’m done venting, would like to say that I really do love this game and I have only had 4 or 5 CTD in 197 hours of play and can only find two broken quests at the moment. And the video problems I was experiencing was due to a faulty video card witch I had to warranty through EVGA (g-force GTX 560ti) if you’re having video problems don’t forget to check the event viewer for video errors.

Skyrim's market is only played by TES followers.. If it would be made for online gaming more people interested in multiplayer would also try playing the Elder Scroll Series, as i said in my previous posts games like WoW and any other MMOs have a much bigger market.


It is clear from ur point of view that ur quite unexperienced about playing multiplayer games... Why would any1 play multiplayer is of the reason they start on their own with the possibility to meet new people with the same skill or interests which can make them together stronger to do things they cannot do alone. Besides they can fight against each other whether to see the difference each chosen skill has and loot together when they meet stronger opponents.
Iam curious how u want to achieve that by playing on single player?

P.S. @ Moderators

When u modify a thread maybe edit it before deleting it?!! Or give a message on what to be changed....

Dont make a change without any proper notification, otherwise how can this community ever learn on these subjective based rules?

Well, I don't know what you expect out of a moderator presence - we're not Bethesda employees, so our opinions don't carry any sort of weight in any of these matters. You're not likely to see us doing much more than forum maintenance, interventions, etc. We do try to find time to participate in threads that interest us, but it tends to depend on how busy the forums are on any given day.

As far as Dev responses - they prefer to stick to releasing information in the pinned threads you will find at the top of the sub-forums. My understanding is that they prefer to wait until there is officially confirmed information before sharing it.

Forums for MMO games do tend to have a greater degree of developer interaction (though I'm also aware that other more single-player-focused games do this as well.) As to why they do the things they do, I can't comment without putting words in their mouth (which would be a bad idea to do.)