ProfesseurFreder wrote: »

I'm guessing that it is the long-term plan of the developers to eventually fill in all the holes in the Tamriel map through DLC and Morrowind-style chapter expansions... yes?

Do you think we'll ever see a completed map of Tamriel? -- And if so, how long d'you think that will take? Will we still be playing on a map that has holes in it ten years from now? For my part, even if they worked really aggressively, I can't see it happening in less than five years.

How far ahead d'you think the developers are planning?

Anyway, I plan on sticking around...

Well think about their current progress. It's been 3 years, and we will have gained craglorn, orsinium, hew's bane, the gold coast, and vvardenfell. At the current rate it appears to be a 20 year project.

While I'm relatively new here, I'd agree with your statement. However, I do think that they will avoid TES6's location and mainly add areas that were featured in previous Elder Scrolls games until TES6 has been released and is well into it's life-cycle.

My opinion is that TESO is a compliment to the TES game library rather than a new addition. ZOS is a separate studio from the single-player studio at Bethesda that develops the SP games so I would think TESO will be developed alongside the SP games.

It would make sense, from a business perspective, to have TESO be a constant, stable fixture in Bethesda's game library with offshoots of new TES SP games.

Im actually ok with this. It makes me feel like i can invest a large chunk of time/life into this game and they will be constantly adding to it in a manner that will flow and interact with the older content. Not one of the oh by the way here is a new island that has stronger monsters but no real movement to the story, or adds another side story to the 50 we already have that never really concludes...