Elder Scrolls MMO in works? News

PC Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese

5 November, 2007

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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Rodster

05/11/07 @ 09:59

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

Kirly_Wombat

05/11/07 @ 10:03

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Yes definately agree. Its a lovely world and always struck me as a shame that it was just me alone wandering around it. Although id hope if they MMO it, they would lose the levelling system that the game uses (although thinking about it I cant see how they would make it work online without changing it).

Lutz [mod]

05/11/07 @ 10:11

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

KingOfIceland

05/11/07 @ 10:13

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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

05/11/07 @ 10:16

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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.

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Lutz [mod]

05/11/07 @ 10:21

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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

05/11/07 @ 10:24

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"getting their first"? For shame.

TonyCocaCola

05/11/07 @ 10:24

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A co-op Es game would be immense

Kalinin

05/11/07 @ 10:35

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"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

05/11/07 @ 10:50

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

Hope they don't can the single player branch.

Lutz [mod]

05/11/07 @ 10:53

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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

05/11/07 @ 10:58

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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

05/11/07 @ 11:15

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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

05/11/07 @ 11:31

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

symmetry

05/11/07 @ 12:00

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+1 for continuing SP as well.

Cylinder

05/11/07 @ 12:12

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

Kyle

05/11/07 @ 12:18

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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

05/11/07 @ 12:50

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

Barkotron

05/11/07 @ 13:09

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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

05/11/07 @ 14:03

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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

05/11/07 @ 14:38

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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

05/11/07 @ 15:12

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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

05/11/07 @ 16:10

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*jumps on happy bandwagon.

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

FortysixterUK

05/11/07 @ 21:17

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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. !

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