Elder Scrolls MMO in works?

By Robert Purchese Published 5 November, 2007

New website suggests so.

Bethesda has registered the new website address elderscrollsonline.com, suggesting that the MMO project it is working on is based on its hit role-playing series.

However, the destination is a dead-end at the moment, and developer spokesperson Pete Hines has told Gamespot it is just snaffling up URLs to prevent other people getting their first.

Nevertheless, it is one step closer to demystifying the MMO project parent company ZeniMax Media revealed it was working on back in August when it hired ex-Mythic Entertainment front man Matt Frior to take control of its new online team.

Pete Hines was also less chatty when asked what the new MMOG was, and offered only that ZeniMax will not be revealing what it was working on for a very long time.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Rodster #1 4 years ago

    Brilliant idea and long overdue IMO. That's what this game needs IMO.

  • Lutz #2 4 years ago

    I'd buy a new PC for this...

  • KingOfIceland #3 4 years ago

    No thanks. ES is a great singlesplayer series and I don't know how the hell it would fare as a MMO. seriously, do we really need more cookie cutter MMO's?

  • Xerx3s #4 4 years ago

    Me and me mates have always been big ES fans and it would be fantastic if we could play together. Might actually buy this if they don't fuck up the controls and don't ask absurd amounts of money every month like wow.

    EDIT: Actually, i'd prefer a Diablo 2 8 player coop party system to a mmo.
    Edited by 1 at 05/11/07 @ 10:17

  • Lutz #5 4 years ago

    I think it'd be better (360wise anyway) if you could create your own world and just let your mates in on it. Co-op-ing dungeons etc, and no idiots.
    Or just passworded worlds, so you could have "EG world" or whatever.

  • Grom #6 4 years ago

    "getting their first"? For shame.

  • TonyCocaCola #7 4 years ago

    A co-op Es game would be immense

  • Kalinin #8 4 years ago

    "I think it'd be better (360wise anyway) if you could create your own world and just let your mates in on it. Co-op-ing dungeons etc, and no idiots.
    Or just passworded worlds, so you could have "EG world" or whatever."

    That's exactly what I'd like to see, player-created and maintained shards linked together with a rudimentary game browser and maybe a character authentication server to keep people honest in a meta-game sense.

  • chicknstu #9 4 years ago

    But... this goes against everything the series is famous for! (Immersive, single player experience).

    Hope they don't can the single player branch.

  • Lutz #10 4 years ago

    There's no real reason why a single player game and a co-op game can't run together. I'd defo prefer co-op or "private passworded" worlds over MMO though...

  • CouldntResist #11 4 years ago

    Half of the world's developers have had their eyes on the MMO market since the ludicrous success of WoW. Surprisingly, it's all about the money.

  • Evolution #12 4 years ago

    I believe there is a mod out there to play Oblivion multiplayer, haven't tried it myself though so I can't testify to the quality.

  • TriggerHippie #13 4 years ago

    Please give it a new stat/levelling system. The current one ruined Oblivion and Morrowind for me.

  • symmetry #14 4 years ago

    +1 for continuing SP as well.

  • Cylinder #15 4 years ago

    Multiplayer Oblivion is here: http://csusap.csu .edu.au/~mloxto01/ but it's quite lacking in features.

  • Kyle #16 4 years ago

    I'm not sure I could get as sucked into the game world if there were loads of 13 year olds running around shouting "LFG, lol" etc...

  • bonker #17 4 years ago

    Wish they'd register elderscrollsco-op.com instead ...

  • Barkotron #18 4 years ago

    Oh gods no. MMOs are the least interesting kind of games yet invented - Bethesda should be focusing on fixing the bits that were wrong with Oblivion, not making yet another bloody MMO. Proper plot development, proper consequences etc are what they need, not additional grind and whiny idiots.

    There's nothing that can be done in an MMO that can't be done BETTER either in a) real life (for gods' sakes go and TALK to people you twats), or b) a single-player (or at the most x-player co-op) game. MMOs are inherently shit.

  • Collie #19 4 years ago

    Excellent! A MMO game featuring dwarves and Elves and big beards. Just what the doctor ordered. I'm surprised no-one thought of doing this before.

  • ZuluHero #20 4 years ago

    I don't see why they couldn't create an immersive MMO. People seem to think that as soon as they hear that 'dreadful' abbreviation that it is an end to immersion. Why should it? I think that oblivion would work really well as an MMO and for veterans of one of the best offline RPG I’ve had the pleasure to play, I think its in really good hands.

    I really hope they don't screw it up though ;)

    Here’s hoping! First small steps towards something potentially very good! :)


  • Fudce #21 4 years ago

    Elder Scrolls Online would work, as long as they didn't make it too graphically challenging. There hasn't been an MMO that has survived with any large userbase that needed a powerful PC.

  • JavaJawaUK #22 4 years ago

    *jumps on happy bandwagon.

    Great world, but I think it's run it's course as a SP game for now.

  • FortysixterUK #23 4 years ago

    An elder scrolls MMO would be a frickin' disaster and yet another MMO that either shut down or went free within a year like so many have in the past.

    Elder Scrolls was one of the definitive single player experiences and simply due to the obvious fantasy MMOs out right now, would, in my opinion , fail.

    Single Player for Elder Scrolls is the only way forward. By the time its released WOW 2 would be hitting !

    I for one would not go for Elder Scrolls MMO.

    Got the hump now. !