Parent Company of Bethesda, Makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3, Announces New MMO Division
Published August 1, 2007
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The parent company of Bethesda Softworks, which created The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the upcoming Fallout 3, has just opened a new division focused exclusively on MMOs. Called ZeniMax Online Studios, the division will be by Matt Firor, an expert in the field of online gaming and a founder of Mythic Entertainment.
The Elder Scrolls series games have always nearly been single-player MMOs in and of themselves, is this the logical next step for them, or merely Bethesda taking a look at Blizzard’s gravy train and wanting a piece of the action?
I hope not. All my fun in Elderscrolls III and IV comes from stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE possible until the whole world has nothing left. Actually, IV was different in that I did a lot of other side quests (still barely did the main story at all)… but with III, I literally got caught stealing in the starting town where you get your first quest and then never showed my face there again. From then on, I spent my time robbing every house across the game world until all houses were barren. Then I stopped swam out into the ocean for a while and logged out forever.
Basically, if they turn this into an MMO, I really don’t see how I will be able to continue my stealing adventures.
Unless they bring back stealing UO style.