You guys know he is baiting you right? I mean, he isnt even saying anything.

Pallmor wrote: »

EnglishDragon17 wrote: »

did they do anything?

They published it. They share all their marketing and PR people. ZOS and Bethesda are closely tied under the parent company. A different development team handles the development, but I'm sure Bethesda provided some assets from Skyrim and other TES games.

They're not completely separate entities, as some people here seem to think for some reason. Maybe it's because a lot people here harbor fantasies that Bethesda is secretly hard at work on Elder Scrolls 6 and that the parent company would be completely cool with them developing a game that would compete directly with ESO (I seriously doubt that).

Personally, I don't think there is a chance in hell that Bethesda is going to release a TES6 until after ESO has finished its run. Knights of the Old Republic was an incredibly popular franchise too. But you haven't seen Bioware developing a new KOTOR game since The Old Republic MMORPG, have you?

Work on Fallout 4 is done now they will be working on DLC for the game. But yes they can and will release The Elder Scrolls 6 even if Zenimax try at a MMO lives that long. Zenimax was going to play a part in Skyrim and Fallout Bethesda was not working on Fallout fast enough so ZoS got Obsidian to complete the game and Bethesda did Skyrim solo.

ZoS has little control over Bethedsa they own full rights to Skyrim and have seen that they can make money without Zenimax's help

Darlgon wrote: »

You guys know he is baiting you right? I mean, he isnt even saying anything.

Im not saying anything because i dont spend all day on the forums

RinneganDovahkiin wrote: »

Never played Morrowind. Though I am aware that the Vampire feature for it was one of the worst features of all time in that you couldn't do anything if you became one.

In Oblivion you had to get inside before the sun came up or you would take massive damage.

Pallmor wrote: »

They published it. They share all their marketing and PR people. ZOS and Bethesda are closely tied under the parent company. A different development team handles the development, but I'm sure Bethesda provided some assets from Skyrim and other TES games.

They're not completely separate entities, as some people here seem to think for some reason. Maybe it's because a lot people here harbor fantasies that Bethesda is secretly hard at work on Elder Scrolls 6 and that the parent company would be completely cool with them developing a game that would compete directly with ESO (I seriously doubt that).

Personally, I don't think there is a chance in hell that Bethesda is going to release a TES6 until after ESO has finished its run. Knights of the Old Republic was an incredibly popular franchise too. But you haven't seen Bioware developing a new KOTOR game since The Old Republic MMORPG, have you?

BGS did provide assets and concept material from the TES games to ZOS. They have said this. It was the responsibility of ZOS to turn them into ESO assets.

You might be right about TES 6. I have not heard it myself, but rumor has it that Todd Howard wants to work on something new. That might mean that the next game from Bethesda Game Studios may be something other than TES. Could it happen that TES 6 and ESO may be active at the same time? Of course. The markets overlap, but they are not mutually exclusive and there are market segments that are outside of the overlap area.

To me, the main reason to avoid TES 6 right now has nothing to do with competition and everything to do with saturation. Part of what fuels the TES frenzy is the long time between games. I am certain that if BGS rolled out a new Elder Scrolls single player game every year that the market would show fatigue.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »

Work on Fallout 4 is done now they will be working on DLC for the game. But yes they can and will release The Elder Scrolls 6 even if Zenimax try at a MMO lives that long. Zenimax was going to play a part in Skyrim and Fallout Bethesda was not working on Fallout fast enough so ZoS got Obsidian to complete the game and Bethesda did Skyrim solo.

BGS has already started working on the next game, whatever that is. They knew what that game was going to be months ago. Concept and design people are very likely deep into that game while the rest of the studio is cleaning up the final details of Fallout 4. Even now, they are pulling people off of Fallout 4 to work on this new game as they become free of Fallout 4 assignments. By the time the lights are off on Fallout 4 next year, they will probably have been working on the new game for around 2 years already.

ZeniMax Online is an MMO company and was not ever going to be part of Skyrim, and will not be part of TES 6. The two companies have a different focus, with different priorities and perspective, even though they share the Elder Scrolls brand.

Alucardo wrote: »

RinneganDovahkiin wrote: »

Never played Morrowind. Though I am aware that the Vampire feature for it was one of the worst features of all time in that you couldn't do anything if you became one.

I didn't mind it actually. However, it was extremely strict. You could not go into towns without being attacked, you'd receive constant sun damage so you always needed to lurk inside caves/houses. It did have some cool aspects, though. There were 3 different Vampire factions. Depending on what type of Vampire you were bitten by would determine what attributes you'd get a boost in (some Vampire factions preferred magicka, some strength, and I think the third one was stealth or something). After you were turned, you would receive an entire Vampire quest line for that faction. So basically, being a Vampire would pretty much become your whole world as every one else wanted to kill you. It was an interesting twist, and definitely one that was worth exploring just to see the world through the eyes of a Vampire in Morrowind.

And that whole attitude was more in keeping with the idea of vampire pre-Twilight and para-normal romance sexy beautiful vampire. Vampire was something that happened to you and you wanted it to go away because it ruined your life.