Morrowind will soon be given out for free with the 20th anniversary?

TheRimOfTheSky

The prologue quests Ascending Doubt and A King’s Retreat both take place in Vvardenfell (Pulk, sareloth grotto, Lady Arabelle's camp at Nund), and since prologues only go to free areas, Vvardenfell will probably be made free DLC like Imperial City.

Considering Tes III: Morrowind turns 20 this May, and the only players who don't have the Chapter are literal veteran players that bought the game before 2018, I can see them releasing it for everyone. Its pretty long overdue. Don't know about the Warden class tho, but hopefully it goes free

Hopefully more prologue quests will explore out-of-bound or unnamed places like Arkngthand, Telasero, and Nchardumz as places we can go inside of, since they have exteriors but are currently blocked off. They already have interiors designed, so it would make Zos' job easier; plus nostalgia factor. There's also a chance Sheogorad will one day be a zone DLC like Zeb Cook talked about, since Vvardenfell is base game.

silvereyes

I doubt very much that the Warden class will be unlocked, but I guess we'll see. Have you been able to test on an account that doesn't have Morrowind on PTS to see how the experience works? That's weird that a prologue quest would have you go somewhere you might not have access to.

Paulytnz

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

Considering Tes III: Morrowind turns 20 this May, and the only players who don't have the Chapter are literal veteran players that bought the game before 2018,

On consoles Alt accounts can play ESO for free, they don't have to buy the game all over again. However they DON'T get access to Morrowind. As such I am hoping you are correct and it releases for free. Then my alt crafters can craft in Vvardenfell just like my normal account!!!

DagenHawk

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

Sylvermynx

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

Why ever not? I might - I still have all the games available though I can't play Arena (WAY too tiny on my 4k screens) or Daggerfall (in first person only which doesn't agree with the vertigo I deal with on a daily basis). Admittedly, the graphics are not "modern" (well, they were when MW released) and the animations aren't particularly good....

belial5221_ESO

Prologues don't goto free areas,they goto accessible areas without eso+ or buying DLCs.Since Morrowind has been free with basegame for a while,the prologue would be there in a zone most can access.If you have an older account before they added it free with basegame,you're outta luck unless you buy the full game discounted on the old account so they add it,or buy DLC ingame.

dcam86b14_ESO

belial5221_ESO wrote: »

Prologues don't goto free areas,they goto accessible areas without eso+ or buying DLCs.Since Morrowind has been free with basegame for a while,the prologue would be there in a zone most can access.If you have an older account before they added it free with basegame,you're outta luck unless you buy the full game discounted on the old account so they add it,or buy DLC ingame.

pretty much what this person said

AlexanderDeLarge

If this happens, this makes my idea for "sequel chapters" a possibility given that everyone would have Vvardenfell. Excellent opportunity to expand on abandoned heists/sacraments systems using the Morag Tong faction.

Kiralyn2000

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

Played Morrowind back around the time Oblivion came out (a friend loaned it to me - "hey, check out this awesome game series!").

That said, I tried to go back to it a year or two ago, and I'd forgotten just how lousy old-game user interfaces were. It's pretty painful.
(is that Skywind project still going? )

Castagere

I just want a remaster of TES 3.

spartaxoxo

belial5221_ESO wrote: »

Prologues don't goto free areas,they goto accessible areas without eso+ or buying DLCs.Since Morrowind has been free with basegame for a while,the prologue would be there in a zone most can access.If you have an older account before they added it free with basegame,you're outta luck unless you buy the full game discounted on the old account so they add it,or buy DLC ingame.

Is there any prologue that has gone to an area that wasn't free? Morrowind is still DLC. It's listed under DLC, goes on sale from time to time, etc.

I could see them making the non-Warden version into a freebie

Sylvermynx

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

Played Morrowind back around the time Oblivion came out (a friend loaned it to me - "hey, check out this awesome game series!").

That said, I tried to go back to it a year or two ago, and I'd forgotten just how lousy old-game user interfaces were. It's pretty painful.
(is that Skywind project still going? )

Yes.... but slowly.

https://tesrskywind.com/

SeaGtGruff

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

I'm playing Morrowind right now (well, not right NOW). The other night after ESO server maintenance started I hopped into my ongoing game and managed to get through Galom Daeus on my still-lowish-level Monk who fights Hand-to-hand, Unarmored, using no potions, poisons, scrolls, or magic during fights-- although he does use magic, just not aggressively. I'm just starting to practice on his Alteration skills so he can start making good use of the Shield spell-- something I never had appreciation for until I started playing a Healer in Arena.

silvereyes

Castagere wrote: »

I just want a remaster of TES 3.

That will have to wait until Skywind is done. Then Bethesda can repackage all the textures under the "Special Edition" brand and sell it on every platform for the price of a AAA game.

code65536

Vvardenfell is already included in the base game, if you bought the base game after mid-2018. Players who bought the base game prior to that didn't get Vvardenfell for free, but every new player in the past almost-four years have Vvardenfell as a part of their base game purchase.

By this point, I suspect that the people who don't have it are in the minority, and it would make sense for ZOS to extended the free Vvardenfell to the few old accounts that still don't have it.

RisenEclipse

Since we are also talking about the single player game in here... TES 3 has to be my favorite TES game. The game is painfully old, the graphics are cringy now, but hot damn that game was hard. People who only played Skyrim would be hopeless in Morrowind. The answers to the puzzles are not literally written on a wall for you! You do not get a compass pointing you to exactly where you need to go!

EvilAutoTech

RisenEclipse wrote: »

Since we are also talking about the single player game in here... TES 3 has to be my favorite TES game. The game is painfully old, the graphics are cringy now, but hot damn that game was hard. People who only played Skyrim would be hopeless in Morrowind. The answers to the puzzles are not literally written on a wall for you! You do not get a compass pointing you to exactly where you need to go!

I've played TES III many times. It's still find it difficult at times.

SammyKhajit

This one plays Morrowind every other year - great classic, straightforward gameplay and levitation is always fun.

All you need to do, to not *** up the main quest, is to avoid random killing spree.

James-Wayne

I did report this on the PTS forums and mention it should be free as its free with newer versions of ESO.

We'll see.

OmniaRR

Is it not automatically included in the base version of the game anyway?

Lady_Galadhiel

Morrowind is included in the base game.
Everyone who buys ESO now gets Morrowind included.

RisenEclipse

OmniaRR wrote: »

Is it not automatically included in the base version of the game anyway?

Yes it is. For a few years I think. Least it was two years ago when I bought the game.

JKorr

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

I'm playing Morrowind right now (well, not right NOW). The other night after ESO server maintenance started I hopped into my ongoing game and managed to get through Galom Daeus on my still-lowish-level Monk who fights Hand-to-hand, Unarmored, using no potions, poisons, scrolls, or magic during fights-- although he does use magic, just not aggressively. I'm just starting to practice on his Alteration skills so he can start making good use of the Shield spell-- something I never had appreciation for until I started playing a Healer in Arena.

@SeaGtGruff ; Make a game save. Then go have tremendously overpowered fun with uber alchemy. You *have to* save your game if you want to do this because it can easily screw everything up. Its incredibly easy to get potions that will last for hundreds of hours, boomerang effects that can eventually kill you, and getting revenge on cliffracers with levitation and fire or lightning shield. You'll get a whole new appreciation for bug zappers. After you have fun, you can go back to your normal save and keep playing.

Kiralyn2000

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Morrowind is included in the base game.
Everyone who buys ESO now gets Morrowind included.

Yep.

The question is how many people bought ESO before MW was included, but haven't gotten it some other way (ESO+, chapter purchase, etc). I imagine it's a small group, but I can't know for sure.

Fennwitty

It would be a nice gesture to unlock it for legacy players.

As would including Summerset in the base game now that it's been several chapters released since they bundled Morrowind with new purchases.

AlnilamE

DagenHawk wrote: »

I thought you were talking about the single player RPG then I remembered... ESO and Skyrim players will never play Morrowind

I played it for as long as XBox360 supported it, even though it crashed every 30 minutes, I could only have two save files and the quest journal pre-expansions was in chronological order, so I kept loosing track of what I had done already.

Fata1moose

As someone that has purchased every chapter, I wish they would just make the oldest free every year. That way we could get prologue quests, companion quests, etc in these zones instead of just putting them in the dated vanilla zones. They bundle them with the latest chapter every year anyway, but that does not guarantee everyone has them. This way they could get more use out of these visually wonderful zones.

TheRimOfTheSky

I was right 😈

It was just for eso's 8th anniversary rather than tes 3's 20th

shadyjane62

This is like getting broccoli with a side of brussels sprouts for your Birthday meal.

PrinceDamien

The article mentioned that they wanted to make sure that everyone can take part of High isles Prologue, which seems to take part in Morrowind.

Not sure if it was planned with the 20th anniversary or not.
But if it was, kudos.

SeaGtGruff

shadyjane62 wrote: »

This is like getting broccoli with a side of brussels sprouts for your Birthday meal.

Depending on how those two things are prepared, that could be an awesome birthday meal!