Will Microsoft make the game better, worse, or no effect?

marshill88

Microsoft owns Zenimax for a 7.5 billion cash deal. What is your take on the effect Microsoft will have? As a minecraft fan, I can tell you for sure Microsoft made minecraft so much better.

TwinLamps

I hope it will be better.
On the other hand, they might just pull the plug if the income isnt what they hoped for.
Guess the time will tell.

marshill88

TwinLamps wrote: »

I hope it will be better.
On the other hand, they might just pull the plug if the income isnt what they hoped for.
Guess the time will tell.

I'm sure this game is an absolute cash cow, i doubt they will pull the plug. If anything, they will probably have even more "pay to acquire" things. One thing Minecraft did under Microsoft is have a lot of user-created for-pay content. This allowed even users to benefit and get royalties from sales for things they created.

lazywhiteseal

minecraft is a bit different. its a popular game that almost everyone in the world knows. even parents who dont play games know it in my country.

eso isnt known worldwide. it only has servers in 2 continents lol.

microsoft probably invest alot in minecraft since it was or is very profitable.

but other elder scroll series, the single player game, is a different story. many people would know skyrim but not eso. so they might invest more on upcoming elder scroll 6. who knows?

mega companies like microsoft care alot about profit. if there arent many customers why invest on it?

i think it will be same as usual since eso does have reasonable amount of players for an mmorpg.

marshill88

lazywhiteseal wrote: »

minecraft is a bit different. its a popular game that almost everyone in the world knows. even parents who dont play games know it in my country.

eso isnt known worldwide. it only has servers in 2 continents lol.

microsoft probably invest alot in minecraft since it was or is very profitable.

but other elder scroll series, the single player game, is a different story. many people would know skyrim but not eso. so they might invest more on upcoming elder scroll 6. who knows?

mega companies like microsoft care alot about profit. if there arent many customers why invest on it?

i think it will be same as usual since eso does have reasonable amount of players for an mmorpg.

Oh you are right...everyone on earth practically knows Minecraft. But here is the killer for me: Microsoft paid 3 times more for Zenimax than it did Minecraft. So clearly, Microsoft sees something really really great in these game properties and I can assure you, Microsoft has intentions on making them extremely well known and to do that, they will (I hope) make them even better.

I thought Microsoft would ruin Minecraft...boy was I wrong. Microsoft clearly has a lot of smart people and they know how to treat a game. I'm pretty sure ESO and Fallout will be even better in the future.

Snowstrider

Probably no difference

honglatongla

No effect.

silky_soft

Some things that should assume will happen once MS employees move in.

All crown crate items will be earnable somehow in game. This is one of MS policies for it's games.

Server side hardware and database should improve greatly as we are still on 2015 hardware. MS cloud infrastructure is pretty vast.

Zeni are already making a new mmo on an updated version of this engine. You'd expect us to be the live test for that engine upgrade. Eso already has a precedent of continual upgrade and consoles have finally been updated.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

I disagree about Elder Scrolls popularity.
ESO is the 10th game in the series and most gamers know and love the TES universe.
Not to mention other Bethesda titles like Doom, Wolfenstien, Fallout and the upcoming Starfield.
Minecraft was just one game, Bethesda/Zenimax are lots of very popular IP's.
Microsoft I think will be great for ESO and Bethesda in general, since BGW has so much going on, and the fiasco that was FO76, we can only hope...
My 2 drakes...
Huzzah!

Wolfpaw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUB-wjXUREE
No change.

Firstmep

Eso is making good money, they have a solid monetisation model, I don't think Microsoft would wanna mess with something that already works.
I wouldn't expect anything special just cause of the Microsoft purchase.

phaneub17_ESO

They'll probably make future titles Xbox exclusives first, then PC, then other consoles in that order for everything not already locked down in contract. Cross-play or at least Cross-Save will be a thing among many of their titles between Xbox and PC in the future. I doubt they will do anything that deals with creative integrity of the games.

kentribal

Hope microsoft do great things in ESO and dont ruin the game like activision ruin World of Warcraft for profits

Raegwyr

After last 2 years i have really bad image of zos managment and how the team can handle the game. At this point Microsoft will be worse onle when they will shut down the project.
Maybe for change community managers will start doing their job and talk with community again, that would be nice

Firstmep

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

They'll probably make future titles Xbox exclusives first, then PC, then other consoles in that order for everything not already locked down in contract. Cross-play or at least Cross-Save will be a thing among many of their titles between Xbox and PC in the future. I doubt they will do anything that deals with creative integrity of the games.

They've been shifting away from Xbox only stuff, Microsoft is pretty happy if you play their games on their operating system.

Ard01

Firstmep wrote: »

Eso is making good money, they have a solid monetisation model, I don't think Microsoft would wanna mess with something that already works.
I wouldn't expect anything special just cause of the Microsoft purchase.

Every buyout/takeover results in the parent company wanting to brand the product in their own vision, that you can be sure of. There will be changes, ones we will notice.

No large company buys a business only to leave it alone, they ALL believe they can make it even better, that is a basic premise of the buyout/takeover.

Maxx7410

Knowing microsoft more than likely changes will be for the worse

NeillMcAttack

If ESO gets moved to the Azure network, and we get new servers I can guarantee everyone of us will feel the difference. MSFT were the first company to host all of their studios games on independently hosted servers, going back to the Xbox 360. They are possibly the most experienced company in the world when it comes to dedicated server hosting, and they only one I can recall that didn’t have rampant cheating in their games. Gears of War and Halo were hosted on dedicated servers from Gears 3 and Halo Reach, every other game on the market at the time had hacked lobbies and aim bots, these things never existed on their hosted servers.

MSFT will be great when it comes to quality, because let’s face it, it can’t really get worse...

Stanx

"Target is immune"

Delphos

Microsoft is well known for granting almost total creative freedom to its studious on one hand, and having a strong QA team on the other, so unless ZOS screws everything up hard mode themselves (doubt that) , i can only see ZOS and TESO getting better under Xbox Game Studios!

Moonsprite

I hope they adjust some of the crown store items. It would be great to have a choice between spending gems or spending crowns on crate items.

Tandor

Firstmep wrote: »

Eso is making good money, they have a solid monetisation model, I don't think Microsoft would wanna mess with something that already works.
I wouldn't expect anything special just cause of the Microsoft purchase.

Same here. I certainly hope that's the case as Microsoft have a very chequered history where involvement in gaming is concerned.

Besides, they're already far too busy trying to destroy the Windows brand. They haven't got time to turn their attention to anything else.

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

They just want to get into that niche of RPG solo and MMO games before others do.
Foresight and dominating the market ensures their part in the market.

I'd expect investments in newer games more than in ESO as we've gone past the 6 year mark. I don't think the ESO player base is big enough to see high levels of focus and money being poured into it.

JMadFour

Going by their most recent history(as opposed to being continually bitter about stuff that happened in the 90s and early 2000s with a completely different set of people in charge), I would say that Outside of possibly increasing or decreasing the budget and advertising, Microsoft is likely going to be largely hands-off with ESO.

TequilaFire

Depends on whether they shake up upper ESO management or not.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

I heard Bill Gates mains a Stam Warden in PVP, so I expect things to get worse from a balance standpoint, but I also hear that he has a genetically modified hamster farm outside Seattle, so perhaps the servers will improve? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TequilaFire

I doubt ESO will continue to use a competitor's servers, time will tell.

Kosef

No acquisition of any company has been great really....just shout praises that they weren't bought out by Activision or EA.

Vevvev

marshill88 wrote: »

TwinLamps wrote: »

I hope it will be better.
On the other hand, they might just pull the plug if the income isnt what they hoped for.
Guess the time will tell.

I'm sure this game is an absolute cash cow, i doubt they will pull the plug. If anything, they will probably have even more "pay to acquire" things. One thing Minecraft did under Microsoft is have a lot of user-created for-pay content. This allowed even users to benefit and get royalties from sales for things they created.

So.... There's a small chance we might have someone create a proper vampire lady dress instead of the horrible thing with a flap the devs gave us???

BlueRaven

TequilaFire wrote: »

I doubt ESO will continue to use a competitor's servers, time will tell.

Oh? This is a bit of info that is new to me. What servers are they using now?

Klad

I think the change for the better is already happening.

That was the best dev video they have done yet, it was more focused and less meandering.