ESO on Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · February 18

We wanted to give everyone an FYI - later this year, ESO for Xbox will be available with Xbox Game Pass as an Xbox Play Anywhere game, which will include PC. Over the next few months, you may run into it in various unplayable states in the Xbox store as we complete internal testing. But we wanted you to know in case you stumbled across it - yes, it is real. No, you can't play it from there yet. And yes, we will absolutely tell you more as we get closer to launching it. Also, if you download the ESO file from the Xbox app on Windows while it's in the unplayable state, it's just the screenshot, not the game.

wolfie1.0. · February 23

Question: once this goes live will we be able to select if we login to the Xbox servers or PC servers? Or will we be directed to the Xbox servers automatically?

BenevolentBowd · February 23

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

Question: once this goes live will we be able to select if we login to the Xbox servers or PC servers? Or will we be directed to the Xbox servers automatically?

Hmm, interesting.

Does this mean that ESO PC will abandon it's own launcher and move to the Xbox app?

Other play anywhere games I've played shared the same save files, so I'm curious which megaserver will be available.

SnakeDodger · February 23

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

SkaiFaith · February 23

SnakeDodger wrote: »

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

Amazing and absolutely necessary - who knows how long Xbox consoles will exist. Some Xbox players are starting to feel the urge to move to PC. Then the question will be how long Microsoft will keep gaming alive, but let's not go ahead of ourselves and enjoy the good news instead for now

virtus753 · February 24

SkaiFaith wrote: »

SnakeDodger wrote: »

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

Amazing and absolutely necessary - who knows how long Xbox consoles will exist. Some Xbox players are starting to feel the urge to move to PC. Then the question will be how long Microsoft will keep gaming alive, but let's not go ahead of ourselves and enjoy the good news instead for now

Legitimate questions in light of the change of personnel at the top of Xbox.

Reverb · February 24

BenevolentBowd wrote: »

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

Question: once this goes live will we be able to select if we login to the Xbox servers or PC servers? Or will we be directed to the Xbox servers automatically?

Hmm, interesting.

Does this mean that ESO PC will abandon it's own launcher and move to the Xbox app?

Other play anywhere games I've played shared the same save files, so I'm curious which megaserver will be available.

I’m wondering that too. I support the game being available through multiple ways but I don’t want to be forced to the Xbox launcher. I wonder if we’ll have to eventually and this is part of prepping for crossplay and crossprog.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · February 24

SnakeDodger wrote: »

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

Thanks, @SnakeDodger! This is accurate. Players on Xbox Play Anywhere will be using the Xbox ESO realms, and require logging into an Xbox ESO account.

BenevolentBowd · February 24

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

SnakeDodger wrote: »

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

Thanks, @SnakeDodger! This is accurate. Players on Xbox Play Anywhere will be using the Xbox ESO realms, and require logging into an Xbox ESO account.

Ok, it sounds exactly like how ESO works on Xbox Cloud gaming.

SnakeDodger · 2:13AM

BenevolentBowd wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

SnakeDodger wrote: »

This is actually amazing, if it works as it seems it's going to.
It's probably still just the xbox server, but you can continue your xbox save on a pc environment.

Thanks, @SnakeDodger! This is accurate. Players on Xbox Play Anywhere will be using the Xbox ESO realms, and require logging into an Xbox ESO account.

Ok, it sounds exactly like how ESO works on Xbox Cloud gaming.

Except it's a native pc build, and not depedent on a game pass subscription, or other streaming shenanigans like not good enough internet