Elder Scrolls MMO Rumors Keep Swirling as Bethesda Seeks to Redact 'Secret Information'

Yah I also think a Oblivion MMO is pure D wrong.. I know the modern gaming world likes to go this way because of the subscription Model $, but this game is about being on your own in a beautiful world. Where you can choose to kick back at the House or go fight Vampires in a cave.. Give us access to Morrowind, or the Black Marshes (Please not Shivering Isles... While an interesting experiment, and fun to visit, it's not the same experience. PS I also have not replayed that, and I am one of Oblivion's biggest fans.) So please up the eye candy, give us more NPC interactions (Let visitors "come a knockin" to our homes or stay for dinner conversation) and more interesting side quests. I Always enjoyed the side quests far more than getting sigil stones repetitively and at length. Just don't fix what ain't broke. The best PC game ever by many accounts, please, just give us more!

I've been playing a lot of Oblivion GoTY Ed lately. While the game is echelons above prior installments, there is so much more that Bethesda can do to enrich the single player experience in this universe. One thing that became clear to me soon after starting the game is that the economy and crime system of the game is fundamentally broken. The only thing that stands between me and 9,999,999 gold is the tedium of avoiding guards when my bounty is 20K. I mean, come on. If I can't beat them myself, then I lure them into the woods to be massacred by monsters, or vice versa.

I can buy anything. I can out-jump, ou- run and shake-off any threat the game can throw at me. I'm a one man wealth collecting killing machine. I'm literally using the skills the game gives me to work outside the system. Then, when I get bored I can resume quests. It's a bit strange.

Don't get me wrong, the graphics are top-notch, the music and battle system is impressive. I'm delighted that citizens have the programming to more persue activities that more closely resemble daily life, even if they tend to bunch up and discuss the same subjects even when I've heard them all before. I haul loot back to the same shopkeeper that has a 100% disposition towards me, with a slew of guards that want to kill me in tow. Eight guards swinging and slicing behind me, but only one makes it through the door into the store.

With stats for murders and bounty, it's clear that I'm doing what was intended. I just don't think that the designers planned on the game still being challenging and compelling in that area. Please fix the economy and the crime system before you dump resources into a MMO when the SP game still needs improvement.

A 2-4 player co-op TES experience I welcome warmly (obviously done right)...but an MMO is horribly left-field and very out place with the world and standards the games have set (a very strong and rich single player experience).

I hope this is untrue.

This seems like a strange idea since a huge part of the elder scrolls fan base don't seem to be into multiplayer games.

Too bad it has to be a court battle over the Fallout rights. Considering the profit potential they got a great deal.

Interplay could make an end run around it and resurrect Wasteland...
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... and old school gamers would be just as happy.

booooooooooooo

Oh please god no.

An MMO in the ES setting would be awful. Arena and Daggerfall were incredible games, but Morrowind was just good, and Oblivion was only ok. The reason Oblivion wasn't as good was that it just felt so shallow, it felt just like an MMO. I cant put my finger on it because many quests where better and more complex than in any of the games before it. Maybe it was the map desing or maybe the small size of it.

Making an mmo will just make the world even more static, combined with adding thousands of retards that just want to race through as quickly as possible, not even knowing what the quest is about, just going to point B and killing something as quickly as possible.

There is a place for both SP and MMO. Please give me a modern ES game the size of Daggerfall.

Powdered Deer Penis.

Let's hope the Black Hand, or an equivalent, sneaks in there somewhere if it develops well.

This would be awesome...potentially awesome. As long as it keeps its skill based fighting and doesnt turn it into a macro fest like wow, it should be sweet.

I would hate to see the game turn into a "press 1-5 to win" type MMO.

Guys, guys... guys. Come on. These are smart chaps, there's no way this could be what it sounds like. Maybe some kind of multiplayer in their next single player-esque game, but they're not going to make an MMO. They are not stupid.

Sweet! Just what I wanted... ANOTHER

Elder Scrolls MMO? It feels wrong, line single-player WoW.

I'll happily wait for another single player only elder scrolls. If the direction of the franchise is moving towards MMO only, then see ya later!

Damn, that would be jumping the gun a little.

They need to learn to jog before they turn cartwheels down the street, a persistent co-op multiplayer would make a lot more sense. Take Morrowind, apply the multiplayer foundation of Diablo 2, allow groups to work together and share the spoils of quests, free PVP, server limit of 6-20 people..

.. Rushing straight to MMO is a poor plan.

It better be 1st-person only. Bethesda can't do 3rd-person.