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How long will TESO live?
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Kel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Whatever happens, it's my hope they can somehow turn it into a single player experience.
*Just to be clear, I'm not saying I want the current game to be single player*
But if they were to decide to close down the servers, it's my hope they can tune dungeons/trials into single player experiences...or add some kind of companion system that let's you recruit NPC's to run dungeons/trials with. That way healers have something to heal and tanks still have a group to protect.
Cyrodiil could have a massive and epic quest line that has you taking all keeps leading you to become Emperor, and defending keeps from attack. Similar to the "gang wars" from GTA:San Andreas where you'd take neighborhoods and had to defend your claimed neighborhoods from attack.
Probably too much work for a game that's shutting down, but I hate thinking about all the time invested in this game, all the love I have for my characters, just disappearing.
Really hope something can be done in the case of sever shutdown. Probably not....but a man can dream....10 -
TheInfernalRage✭✭✭✭✭Just asking myself how long is the lifespan of TESO from now.
I hope it will be long.
I'm a returning player after 1700 hours a break of one year.
When I joined years ago, I was told it's already dead. Almost 8000 hours of gameplay later, I'm still waiting for the server to be up so I can level some skills.Edited by TheInfernalRage on July 15, 2019 2:06PM3 -
Bam_Bam✭✭✭✭✭
✭It will go the same way as LotRO or SWtOR I guess. I'll be here until It the power gets turned off.
I've spent about £8000-10000 on ESO - and very possibly more.
I'll make sure I get my money's worth!!!.Edited by Bam_Bam on July 15, 2019 2:13PMJoined January 2014
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KerinKor✭✭✭✭✭
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I used to think that but given Bethesda Softworks complete change in attitude to their products and their customers, witness Fallout '76 and the many, many total failures Howard and his crew perpetrated in its development, release, customer relations etc. I now believe TES6 is not something us fans had been hoping for for years.Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »How long ? My prediction is till TES 6 is released. Those will be hardest times for ESO probably, as it will lose a lot of players.
I expect it to be a 'GaaS' abomination riddled with MTX, it's where Bethesda are heading quite clearly.
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Kagukan✭✭✭✭✭
✭Several MMO's out there with far less of a player base and they are still going. ESO will go for many years.6 -
Jayman1000✭✭✭✭✭
✭Probably at least 5 years, maybe 10. Hell, it may be even more, but by then I would expect playerbase to decline and the game slowly dying out over a long time.Edited by Jayman1000 on July 15, 2019 2:23PM1 -
Donny_Vito✭✭✭✭✭
✭Jayman1000 wrote: »Probably at least 5 years, maybe 10. Hell, it may be even more, but by then I would expect playerbase to decline and the game slowly dying out over a long time.
This is probably the most accurate. I've been in other MMORPGs (that were not nearly as good as ESO in my opinion) and some of them lasted 15 - 20+ years.
ESO will be around a long time. The population will eventually drop and new content will become limited, if non-existent. But ZoS owns the servers and all the rights game, so why not let it last for as long as possible for the sake of making money on work they already did (crown stores, DLC, etc...).2 -
Jayman1000✭✭✭✭✭
✭Donny_Vito wrote: »Jayman1000 wrote: »Probably at least 5 years, maybe 10. Hell, it may be even more, but by then I would expect playerbase to decline and the game slowly dying out over a long time.
This is probably the most accurate. I've been in other MMORPGs (that were not nearly as good as ESO in my opinion) and some of them lasted 15 - 20+ years.
ESO will be around a long time. The population will eventually drop and new content will become limited, if non-existent. But ZoS owns the servers and all the rights game, so why not let it last for as long as possible for the sake of making money on work they already did (crown stores, DLC, etc...).
That sounds very likely, now that I think of it your 15-20+ years is probably truer.1 -
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Red_Feather✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Just needs to add new rpg systems! No more here's a new class to redo everything with. Here's a new dungeon layout to farm for bind on drop gear. Here's a new public dungeon layout, delve layout and type of dolmen to farm for motifs.
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wolf486✭✭✭✭A lot depends on ZoS. It will lose people the worse performance gets and as newer MMO's or games in general come out. I'd say a few more yearsPC/NAMoved onto BDO and GW2 Skyrim, ATS/ETS2, ACNH and the overall goodness of single player games
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Willard✭✭✭I started playing Ultima Online in 1999 (Ya, I'm Old) and that game is still going today. UO was a great game for its time, but it doesn't come close to ESO. I have said in the past ESO is what UO could have been! SO, ESO will probably keep going for quite some time. JMHO2 -
Nahtal✭✭✭Well i hope they make ESO the base game free after some time.
But every game wants to make money (welcome in a capitalistic world)
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Varaug_Gaming✭✭✭oh boy there are mmorpgs out there that failed horribly and are literally empty you have to try real hard to find another player there
and these games keep on running and running and never get shut down
eso is a safe bet to say that it will stay up for longer than you will play this game
just thinking about the people i know who drop hundreds of € just for virtual houses while also being scrubscribed and buying like 40 crown crates every week, costumes hair cuts character makeover services dude
so many roleplayers and rpg type players in this game i just dont see how it could be shut down anytime soon2 -
wolf486✭✭✭✭Well i hope they make ESO the base game free after some time.
But every game wants to make money (welcome in a capitalistic world)
The base game is only $6 when it's on sale, which seems like more than half the year. I doubt making it free will bring many more people in (long term).PC/NAMoved onto BDO and GW2 Skyrim, ATS/ETS2, ACNH and the overall goodness of single player games
RIP to the following:
(DC) Tharbûrz gro-Glumgrog - Orsimer -Stamden (lvl 50)
(AD) Vukz - Bosmer - Stamblade (lvl 50)1 -
peoplething✭✭✭"How long will TESO live?"
until I find out where the servers are and that building mysteriously burns down ?
(j/k!)
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Elsonso✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Just asking myself how long is the lifespan of TESO from now.
I hope it will be long.
I'm a returning player after 1700 hours a break of one year.
I figure 5+ years... if they can solve their nagging performance problems. The combat changes they are working on seem solid, and new content is still rolling out. Performance is really the Achilles Heel at the moment.XBox EU/NA:@ElsonsoJannus
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Tan9oSuccka✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭rotaugen454 wrote: »I’ve been hearing “dead by the end of the year” since beta. I imagine it will live as long as it is profitable.
Well said. I think it’s healthy for now, despite the uptick in whine posts.
I hope it lasts a long time. I hope the whales keep buying....supports the game.
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Odovacar✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Simple. When the game stops providing growth and begins a decline in its worth. Justifications will be made then. Possibly the perfect time to release ES6.
With that being said. Many gaming companies with big upcoming releases that have been rumored for years will hold off as long as possible so they do not cannibalize their current popular brand.1 -
Aptonoth✭✭✭✭✭Man I think we’ll see all of the following before the end.
1. Entire continent.
2. Revamps of base game provinces
3. Quest packs for existing provinces that also add in a few missing areas example is the north of vardenfell and the volcanic centre.
4. Giant lost cities of the dwemer, aeylids, and other lost cultures.
5. Pyandonia
6. Various deadric realms
7. Yukuda
8. Aldmeris
9. Atmora
10. Akavir
I hope I live long enough to see it all lol.2 -
Boardwalker✭✭It will be around here for a while, but will die slowly. Other projects migh appear and investment in this game will drop.It's inevitable.
Only one MMORPG will stand through time and it's not ESO.
Do you hope it that it will live long?
Understand when TES6 will released it popularity will drop.
Still hope not.
Lol, because naysayers dominate this forum, I'd ignore most of the comments about it ending anytime soon. It won't.
ESO will live for *at least* another 10 years. It's simply too popular an MMO to end before then. Anyone who says otherwise is just a bitter forum vet.
As for TES6, it will have 0 impact on me because I don't play single player games. I imagine there are others like me who feel the same way.
If you're basing your time investment into the game on how much longer it will be around, I suggest you remove it as a factor. It's a non-issue at this point in time. And I'd be willing to bet a fair chunk of change on you leaving the game again well before the game itself ends / is sunset.
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