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anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Nope, nope and nope.
- It's not Fallout 4 holding TES6, it's ESO. Not more human resources reasons, but for marketing reasons. THey don't want to split the playerbase.
- We're not going to hear about TES6 anytime soon.

The Elder Scrolls Online just came out on consoles, and has DLC coming this year and into next year, and that’s gonna be the Elder Scolls game Bethesda will be talking about for a while.

- Pete Hines, Bethesda PR Chief.

dualshockers.com/2015/08/09/it-will-be-a-very-long-time-before-bethesda-talks-about-the-next-elder-scrolls-game/

Where in this does it say anything about ESO holding it up or they are not working on it? All they are saying is they arent talking about it. Also your story is from going on a year ago.

Also this:

Hines mentioned that he doesn’t think we’re close to hear about the next Elder Scrolls. Currently Bethesda is working on Fallout 4, and that takes the entire studio, which is 100% focused on it.

Like I said fallout 4 is what held up ES6.

They've already started hiring new people. in fact iirc they are still looking for a couple positions still. TES VI will be on what ever new engine they are creating. No confirmation on which area it's going to be based in. A lot of rumors say Argonia, but I don't see it. Especially if you take how previous titles where developed it will more than likely be either Elsweyr or Summerset Isles since the Khajiit and Altmer played more of a role in Skyrim than Argonians.

JD2013 wrote: »

bertenburnyb16_ESO wrote: »

well ESO s dead to me since end of 2015, I couldn't take Zos's blatant ingnorance and irreversable compulsion to screw the game up more and more with every action they take, so I really, really hope Bethesda s working on the next ES game, but like said before, I fear they are not, since they dont wanne steal the ESO player base

Clearly it's not dead to you if you're hanging around the forums

bored at work, having a laugh at how TG update brings more issues than fixing them

to clarify, with dead I mean, havent played since november, except 1 day a couple hours testing the TG update, pvp worse than ever, pve meh

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

The Elder Scrolls Online just came out on consoles, and has DLC coming this year and into next year, and that’s gonna be the Elder Scolls game Bethesda will be talking about for a while.

- Pete Hines, Bethesda PR Chief.

dualshockers.com/2015/08/09/it-will-be-a-very-long-time-before-bethesda-talks-about-the-next-elder-scrolls-game/

Where in this does it say anything about ESO holding it up or they are not working on it? All they are saying is they arent talking about it. Also your story is from going on a year ago.

Last summer is a year ago ?
And that's exactly what it says in the quote I've copy/pasted. If you need rephrasing : "There's been a lot happening in ESO lately, thus regarding the Elder Scrolls franchise, we will be focusing on ESO this year and also next year".

Pretty close to a year ago. It very clearly says they were working on fallout 4. The entire studio. He mentions fallout 4 a couple of times. So it was fallout 4 that held it up. ESO had nothing to do with it. Now that fallout 4 is out and the dlc basically done they are working on ES6. So relax.

I hope they will NEVER make a TES game multiplayer. They're all built around one big unique hero and I like it that way.

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I doubt that most people who would buy ES6 would even be interested in a MMO. Single player game players like single player games. Most of the people I talked to at first when the game launched were disappointed it wasnt more like skyrim and the single player games. So I dont think if they released ES6 it would kill ESO. Hell fallout 4 is just as popular with ESO players as ESO is yet it didnt kill the game.

Xundiin wrote: »

ESO was never even remotely considered to replace the single player franchise. This has been stated well before ESO even launched by Bethesda, Zenimax, and ZOS. I also believe Todd Howard stated it a couple times along with Matt Firor.

Had ESO been sufficiently popular with a massive number of subscribers..... that would have been $15 a month per pouring into their pockets indefinitely rather than $20-$200 for each game released once every 5 or more years.

And I take what anyone says with a grain of salt. Especially an MMO developer. I could break this forum listing only half the lies told to us by them over the years. Like any business they will say, in the moment, whatever they think will result in them making the most money. Which is the point of business.

I only said they might have considered it. You are essentially claiming omniscience - to know that such a thing was "never even remotely considered". I feel much safer in my statement.

Duiwel wrote: »

ITT OP does not understand that in MMO's eventually people need new content because they've "done it all"

I do understand because I have done it all

viperroos wrote: »

Duiwel wrote: »

ITT OP does not understand that in MMO's eventually people need new content because they've "done it all"

I do understand because I have done it all

Lucky for you DB is coming soon

I know you've all been waiting for my thoughts on the matter ( ), but never fear, tiny is here!

Umm, what was I saying?

Oh, right, the whole TES VI thing.

The question isn't *if* there will be a sixth edition in the single-player Elder Scrolls series, only when. No one but the people at Bethesda have any idea of the when. However, in terms of the debates over factors that could influence it.

- ESO is still fairly new in MMO terms, with new content each quarter, so that takes pressure off of Bethesda to push TES VI. They can take their time with other games to expand their gaming franchises like they did by introducing Dishonored.

- TES and Fallout games are cyclical, with or without ESO. Given the success of ESO, don't be surprised if a Fallout MMO is being talked about by the suits. If so, after another year or two focus might turn to ramping up TES VI (which they may have in pre-production now) and laying the ground work for a new MMO.

- The release of a new TES game would not detract in any meaningful way from ESO, it would help it. New players would be introduced to the Elder Scrolls universe, players who never tried ESO or drifted away would catch Tamriel fever, and all of the above would be tempted to see how ESO has evolved and expanded to get their Elder Scrolls fix.

As for recent TES VI news, try here: http://fraghero.com/you-wouldnt-believe-what-bethesda-confirmed-for-elder-scrolls-vi/

For a normal Bethesda Game Studio, one that has had years to make a pattern and follow it, I would have guessed that they STARTED working on TES 6 sometime in the few months prior to the release of Fallout 4. That would have been a no brainer. Given the incubation time for a TES game, it would be easy to predict 2018 or 2019 as a release date. The earliest we would find out about it is 2018.

It seems that things are very very different, now. Todd Howard is talking about three long term projects, and BGS has been very serial since Morrowind. While I know they overlap, it has been a very serial pattern. I think that instead of starting on the next serial delivery, when they normally would have, they diverted from how they normally do business and have widened the scope of the studio.

There is really no pressure to do another TES game right away. The reason for this is both Elder Scrolls Online and Elder Scrolls Legends. Elder Scrolls Legends will probably be coming out this year and they plan to simultaneously announce and deliver that game, like they did with Fallout Shelter. Now, to be clear, while Elder Scrolls Legends is published by Bethesda Softworks, it is not being done by the studio.

Still, with a major Elder Scrolls game dropping annually since 2014, the pressure is really off for a single player TES game, and BGS is free to slip in another project between Fallout 4 and TES 6, if they want. The way Howard talks, this is something that would not surprise me. They could also have the bandwidth to work on two (or three) projects at the same time, now.

Some of the things that I am expecting include a different game that gets them out of the Elder Scrolls Fallout rut. A new idea, or maybe they have picked up a license to some other game. They could be working on TES 6, and we might see that in a couple of years. They could also capitalize on the mobile market with an Elder Scrolls mobile game, like Fallout Shelter.

If I had to guess, I would say that they have changed the development model that they are using. I am thinking along these lines now...

1. Extra development time for Fallout DLC. In the past, they would have to cut this off to bring people to the next game. They have expanded the DLC plan for Fallout 4. This hints that they do not need those developers, yet.
2. They are working on a big game. Active development for this started in 2015, before Fallout 4 was completed, and is the "main project" for the studio in the sense that it is the thread that follows the way BGS has typically worked. They will talk about this game when it is ready. If they do not expand the resources working on this, I think it will be a 2018 or 2019 release.
3. They now have a mobile development team, and I expect that they are going to make more mobile games.
4. The Fallout 4 DLC team will transition to a second long term project when they are done instead of to the main project I mentioned above. This project is already in progress and, if it is the same scope as the other project, will deliver about a year after the main project.

I think that TES 6 is that second project and that there is another game, not TES or Fallout, that will come before it.

tinythinker wrote: »

Given the success of ESO, don't be surprised if a Fallout MMO is being talked about by the suits.

I think it is a given, based on statements that have already been made in public, that ZOS is working on something other than Elder Scrolls Online maintenance and content. The extent of this, and the degree of effort, is completely unknown, but I would be terribly surprised if this was not the case. The leading candidate for this is a Fallout MMO, but there are a number of other titles that they could be working on, too. These titles do not have to be clones of ESO, in the sense that they might not be MMORPG games. They could be working on a cooperative game that uses the megaserver with small groups of players that do not interact across groups. I do not think they would do a MOBA since BattleCry is not even out.

Anything they are doing on this front is likely hampered by whatever programming resources are needed to address the Lag issue.

tinythinker wrote: »

As for recent TES VI news, try here: http://fraghero.com/you-wouldnt-believe-what-bethesda-confirmed-for-elder-scrolls-vi/

I had to laugh at that link.

In a similar vein, I have noticed that Pete Hines can have a press conference that talks nothing about TES and someone will have a headline: "Bethesda still mum on next Elder Scrolls release, but coming soon".

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Necrelios wrote: »

Todd Howard's team is already working on TES VI, they jump from TES to Fallout then back to TES and keep the pace going. There was a cool interview with him a while back discussing their development cycle. They don't take a lot of breaks, they just jump from one title to the other and tend to throw ideas around for the next while finishing up the last title.

Every article I have read indicates that his team is working on two new IPs and Fallout DLC and not a TES game.

They are supposed to be announcing some new projects at e3 this year.

@viperroos 14-16 June.

There will be a Elder Scrolls VI. There has already been official talk about it. Just no details. We will probably here something about it at E3 2016, but don't expect a gameplay trailer. Maybe a teaser. I will guess there will be more then TES VI on PS4 and Xbox One. But a TES VII to. As they fit Oblivion and Skyrim on PS3 and Xbox 360. Maybe even a TES 8 as these are 10 year consoles. Further, I expect there will be single player games for each providence in Tamriel by the time they are completely fished making TESs...