Rumor: Elder Scrolls MMO in the works?

not sure how i feel about this

I enjoyed the past elder scrolls games but i have the feeling that if they made an MMO that would basically mean no more of them for a while

And MMO's tend to gravitate to a certain path when doing that

if they were to do it i'd rather a SP game with some form a MMO-esque gameplay options

Oh please, yes. I loved Morrowind (Not so much, Oblivion). Set in in -that- continent (with Balmora, and Vivec, and Seyda Neen...man what a good game).

Make it so!

-Birk

I may be alone on this but...

CO-OP: YES!
MMO: NO!

Same goes for Fallout.

God these rumours have been going for years now, I want TES Online last year. Co-OP? LOL who cares about that '95 stuff. BTW, there is no reason NOT to have a TES 5 and TES Online at the same time.

I'm not sure, some things are just better experienced solo, and i think Morrowind and Oblivion were those games. I can't imagine multiplayer fitting there. Maybe if there was a large change in overall gameplay (like warcraft -> wow), but then maybe i would feel its no longer the same TES... I'm just not seeing it, but i am sort of curious to see what they have come up with, if there even is an MMO.

*whistles and quietly walks out of the thread*

All Im sayin is that in CO-OP the game stays and plays how it is. If you go MMO, those "Living" NPCs that can be killed, like you, dislike you, have daily routines etc. Become static immortal quest vending machines. Maybe im just burned out on MMOs, but I like how interesting non-MMO worlds can be.

Also having lasting and important decisions and cause and effect is cool. You cant kill Lucas Simms in Megaton if 10,000 other people on the server need to talk to him. And what happens when you blow up Megaton? Do you see a crowd of people that havent talking to thin air? Phasing can only do so much.

As much as I have enjoyed TES games, I'm not sure I'd play an MMO of it. I think the setting is great, with a rich history and a huge, detailed world to explore, but unless it went through a major gameplay overhaul I don't think it would translate very well. Once the overhaul was made, it wouldn't be TES.

Do we really need another fantasy MMO?

This article and the one it is based off of are very misleading. Bethesda doesn't make MMO's, their sister studio Zenimax online studios lead by Matt Firor(DAOC) does. So you won't EVER see what Bethesda does with a MMO.

All the information in that post has been known for a long time. In fact there is much better information(http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/20/source-bethesdas-elder-scrolls-mmo-missed-its-2009-reveal/).

As per Bethesda's blog the reason you won't see Elder Scrolls V anytime soon is because the next game is a MMO. The reason there is a "chance" of it being a MMO is because the next game is a MMO.

Want the final reason it is an Elder Scrolls mmo? Bethesda/Zenimax doesn't have another IP to make a MMO off of. Interplay has the rights to the fallout MMO so that's out, which leaves elder scrolls.