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Reader Discussion: How Do You Feel About Existing Franchises Turning MMO?

There is a place in the market for both single player experiences and massively multiplayer online titles. However, not every gamer wants to play both types of games.

This week we announced our June cover, which details ZeniMax’s new Elder Scrolls Online MMO. A lot of people are excited to see how the Elder Scrolls experience transfers to the MMO space. But many others would rather just see another single player experience in its place.

Where do you stand? Are you happy that Elder Scrolls Online is being made? A lot of people didn’t like the idea of turning Warcraft of Final Fantasy into MMOs, but once World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XI were released they had an important impact on the MMO market. If you don’t like the idea of turning existing properties into MMOs, Why not? Developing MMOs is hard and takes a lot of work. If Elder Scrolls Online fails, it will cost ZeniMax a lot of money and tarnish the Elder Scrolls name. What should companies who want to break into the MMO market do instead?

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  • I'm skeptical at best, but as I've never experienced this happening before, I'll try to stay open-minded. Still, though, that screenshot of TESO made me nervous.
  • Warcraft of Final Fantasy?
  • We will have to see how The Elder Scrolls Online does. I don't know how I feel about it, though... I think they should have gave it to Obsidian, which is among my favorite devs...
  • They should just stick to what they're best at.
  • Never been a fan of any multiplayer. So a franchise going MMO makes me a little disappointed because it's just another game I won't be interested in playing.
  • I both like it and don't like it. A game like TES should stay, massively single-player, not massively multiplayer. But I am still excited for Elder Scrolls Online. I've always wanted a Elder Scrolls game where you can travel all over Tamriel. (don't correct me about Arena, I know, I know) Also is this implying that there won't be any future TES numbered entries? I sure as hell hope not.
  • i feel uneasy about the whole elder scrools thing i mean they could make it realy good or it cam be like all the other mmos like that and that makes me feel uneasy

    also they better make the elder scroll thing in first person and not third



    but if they succeed in this a fallout one may be....interesteting to say the least

    also NO PAY TO PLAY ON ELDER SCROOLS MMO PLEASE
  • Honestly, I've never been a fan of mmos but so long as this project doesn't force us to wait much longer for dlc for skyrim or a new elder scrolls game, then I say go for it.

  • If they can pull it off, then there is no reason not to make a decent spin-off MMO. If there weren't already 1,000,000s of cheapo MMOs out there, that is. Any company should be cautious when entering this sort of thing, if they do it at all. I'm really unsure about the TES MMO, but others have done similar things really well.

    We just have to wait and see with The Elder Scrolls.

  • It depends. I feel there is room for an MMO of an existing franchise, as long as they also continue making traditional installments. Blizzard kinda ticked me off with Warcraft. I enjoyed the plot of Warcraft 1-3 but I didn't want to subscribe to an MMO to continue the stories that were left open at the end of Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne. I'd love to see a new Warcraft RTS. I enjoy elder scrolls, and I'd like to check out TESO, yet I have my reservations and would be sorely disappointed if they stopped making traditional TES games.
  • Depends on if they make it correctly. The Elder Scrolls games are mostly about creating your own identity and exploring. If they can somehow capture that in an mmo than kudos to them!

  • It depends on the series and how they will approach the genre how I would feel about an MMO title. For The Elder Scrolls, I'm certainly excited for that and would also be excited for a Pokemon or Mass Effect one.
  • every time i try nd get into an mmo, i play for a couple hours, go to sleep and forget about it the next day.

  • I wanted KOTOR 3 a lot. I could care less about SWTOR. I would throw money at bioware to make this.

    I'm more into singleplayer than any type of multiplayer. I'd prefer Fallout 4 than Bethesda having another company make TES Online. Or they could make HD Morrowind...
  • I'm not crazy about it. MMOs aren't my thing, and seeing one of my favorite series turned into one isn't something that excites me.

  • MMOs arent an easy genre to get into... Bioware figured that out the hard way, let's hope ESO has learned you need to hit on many marks to make a MMORPG reach greatness.
  • Here's something developers can try to do:  Make games that don't suck.  Final Fantasy 14 what?  Seriously though, the worse thing that a company can do for an IP is let a developer screw it up.  WAR had some *** lore, but...well, we know how that turned out.  

  • I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want Battlefront 3 I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want Half-Life 3 I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want KOTOR 3 (TOR? Ha.) I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want TES VI I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want Pikmin 3 I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want to watch The Hobbit I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want gas prices to drop I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want world peace I want an MMO of TES as much as I don't want to watch more Replays!
  • If it played just like Skyrim does, with the same kind of INSTANT, real-time combat, with the bonus of questing with my friends, I would play that game FOREVER... but I hear it's gonna play like an MMO :( For me, ES has always been about real-time combat. Personally, I don't mind the idea of being in a world with other players, but if you change the play style to what in my opinion are cheesy, typical, MMO gameplay mechanics, I won't really want to play it.
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