I love The Elder Scrolls series (Skyrim is awesome but I keep coming back to Morowind) but I can't work up any excitement over the upcoming MMORPG.
I've been doing the beta for a goodly while and each time this and that were improved but they were never what kept me unexcited. I think most of it has to do with the whole, "Hey, you've just discovered this new and wonderous place that not one soul has been to in eons! Now try and enjoy the scenery has 50 million other players clutter up the landscape.".
I enjoy playing online games but TESO is just "off" for me.
I'll pass. They let you play an Imperial only by preordering, and then you can join anything everywhere because you are just a preorder gimmick after all. Okaaay...
Those of you who feel that this will delay the next Elder Scrolls game might be correct. If TESO gets successful it might become like World of WarCraft....
....There hasn't been a sequel to WarCraft III for 11 long years now....
Any MMO other than "that game" being successful? I thought that was hardcoded to never happen. But then again, if it will negatively impact our chances for more single player games, who knows? For the greatest power in the universe is that of inconvenience. Impossible odds will be brushed away if it is just annoying enough.
It won't delay (by much, if any) the release of the next core TES game. As for it going F2P, as many of us expect, I'm not sure it'll impact too much on their financials. The game has been a long time developing and with its graphics and engine, etc., it's obvious that it wasn't being fully developed that entire time. So man-hours and money were spread out.
Add to that Bethesda's upcoming releases of extra IP's (Wolfenstein and The Evil Within), plus whatever else Zenimax has and/or does, and if there is significant financial loss it will likely be mitigated and spread throughout its other holdings, etc.
That's not taking into consideration what they've already earned through pre-orders nor what they'll receive with regular purchases and whomever pays the monthly fees until it crashes.
Hell, they could have already written off the developing costs and whatever by spreading it already throughout Zenimax holdings. Everything to date could be wrangled as pure profit. Which would suck.
Fallout 4...I would love for it to have a multiplayer element. But for small parties, 2-4 thereabouts. Yet at the same time I'd rather have it remain single-player.
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