ELDER SCROLLS MMO!!!!!!!!!!!

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In this most recent round of court scuffles between Interplay and Bethesda over the Fallout MMO rights, it would seem that some details are coming to light about what's going on at Bethesda's MMO "branch", Zenimax Media. According to filings, the word is that there are close to 100 people working on an MMO that costs "tens and tens of millions of dollars" and has been under development since late 2006. Apparently these same filings claim that the title is a "World of Warcraft" type MMO. Of course, considering World of Warcraft is about as equal to McDonalds in terms of brand recognition with its millions and millions served, saying something is like World of Warcraft could mean anything from 'it's a DIKU-based, kill-ten-rats, FedEx, fantasy MMO that looks rather a lot like WoW' on up to 'it's somewhere in the general MMO neighborhood.'

Now, to follow this interesting tidbit up, the word is that Bethesda is moving to have this particular chunk of testimony censored to protect trade secrets. To stir the pot a bit further on why they might be scrambling to block it, VG247 have a source they claim is reliable confirming this is the often-rumored Elder Scrolls MMO. What's more, their source says the Elder Scrolls MMO should have been announced last year.
Holding off on a Fallout MMO, we can understand. Bethesda doesn't have the clear rights to the Fallout MMO IP as yet like they do with the single-player game, so to announce it early would be folly. At the rate things are proceeding, heavens only knows how long the Interplay/Bethesda proceedings will drag out, so one could argue developing it before this is all settled would be folly too, considering how fast technology evolves.

As for the reasons on holding an Elder Scrolls MMO back, we have some problem with justifying the rumors of delay. After all, Bethesda clearly owns the rights to Elder Scrolls, and starting the hype machine up several years before release wouldn't exactly be a surprisingly new tactic from any company in the games industry.

Still, there are tasty tidbits that support an Elder Scrolls MMO offering, such as Todd Howard's statement that there's "always a chance" for an Elder Scrolls MMO, Zenimax holding several Elder Scrolls MMO type domains after getting funding for MMO development, and the slip-up by a book publisher that noted the next game in the series after Oblivion would be 200 years later.

Whether the game those nearly 100 souls are busy working on is the oft asked for Elder Scrolls MMO, or if they are indeed elbows-deep in a Fallout MMO despite counsel's claims to the contrary, who knows. Both games would undoubtedly have a following, and could stand to make Bethesda/Zenimax some nice cash if done well.

Source - http://www.massively.com/2010/01/20...as-mmo-already-underdev-rumor-says/#continued

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PLEASE BE TRUE!!!
 
As long as they make another single player Elder Scrolls. Really don't care about an MMO. Some kind of co-op Elder Scrolls would be hawt too.
 
Conspiracy! Tin foil hat! Swamp gas!

Thought I'd get them in for you Teki.

Seriously though, I prefer Fallout to Elder Scrolls, so would have preferred to see that tbh. Not that I have the time to play an MMO seriously.
 
Any money at the minute they are only working on the engine and back end as well as basic ui idea's, etc while they kill off Interplay so they can get the rights owed to them, if they don't get the right they make Elder Scrolls content, if they do they make Fallout content. They will most likely end up making both anyway though as the two crowds probably don't overlap that much.
 
Oblivion is my favourite game of all time, and Fallout 3 isn't far behind.

To me this is just awful news as I hate MMOs. Wish they would concentrate on a more polished single player TES V and start working on Fallout 4.
 
Oblivion is my favourite game of all time, and Fallout 3 isn't far behind.

To me this is just awful news as I hate MMOs. Wish they would concentrate on a more polished single player TES V and start working on Fallout 4.

While i don't hate MMOs, i agree. Elder Scrolls was born a single player RPG and should stay a single player RPG. What we're looking at here is yet another MMO in the vast sea of MMOs already out there, and if they don't do another Singleplayer version, and a properly done 1 at that, i can see this falling flat on its face.

Elder Scrolls may be a popular series, but it became popular as a singleplayer game, assuming the same popularity will cross over if they go MMO could be the single dumbest decision ever made.
 
Thread title is deceiving. I was expecting an announcement, not more rumours.

That being said, the Elder Scrolls Universe would be a great setting for an MMO and I'd love to see them bring the various territories to life.
 
Really too many fantasy MMOs saturating the market. Fallen Earth is somewhat okayish, but it's' not quite a Fallout MMO.
 
Why would people be interested in it? The character development system, the pacing, the difficulty, the mods, the spells, the classes, hell everything, could not work at all in an MMO setting, to make it even remotely balanced, everything that makes TES, TES, would have to go. You just wouldn't get the variety and openness that makes things fun.
 
They won't care about sustaining the Elder Scrolls game mechanics if they reckon they can turn in some cold cash using an online setting. They'll take the story, art design and locale and create an MMO. Just as Blizzard did with WoW.

There's every chance they'll be happy to alienate the TES fans as they are right now and appeal to a new market if they reckon it'll be profitable. The majority of WoW players, I'd say, had never played a Warcraft game before; I met plenty old-school fans who hated the MMO, branding it almost as Blizzard selling out.
 
As long as they make another single player Elder Scrolls. Really don't care about an MMO. Some kind of co-op Elder Scrolls would be hawt too.

+1 million. I'm desperately awaiting the time when there are so many MMOs out there that focussing on games of that type no longer becomes so profitabe.
 
Bethesda have got to either be working on a new Elder Scrolls game or a new IP, since the next Fallout is being handled by Obsidian (Kotor II) and any MMO they are working on would be handled by Zenimax. So that leaves their main development team free to do something and my guess would be either Elder Scrolls 5 or something completely new.

I'm not that fussed for an Elder Scrolls MMO either, I would much prefer another epic single player game, either set in Hammerfell or Skyrim.
 
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