Elder Scrolls Online news (incredibly important)

The flop flop flop flop game, Elder Scrolls Online, which used horrible cash grabs such as locking out races, preordering mounts, overcharging pc game price to a whopping £49.99: due to flopping and superior competition is dropping it's sub fee, most likely to **** you over with dlc.

Also a console version or something.

Two major announcements regarding The Elder Scrolls Online. The first, a 9th June release date for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of game (a year later than originally planned).

The second: TESO will no longer require a subscription fee to play. As with Guild Wars 2, when you buy the game you can play it in full, online, for no extra charge.

Special, "optional" downloadable content will be sold to you, but regular gameplay updates will remain free. Convenience and vanity items will be sold in a Crown Store real-money-converter shop in game.

You can still pay a monthly subscription to become an ESO Plus member, receiving exclusive in-game bonuses, a monthly allotment of crowns (for the Crown Store) and access to all DLC (while you're a member).

The console versions of Elder Scrolls Online are officially subtitled Tamriel Unlimited and include all the changes and updates made to the PC game since launch, April 2014.

PC players will have access to the Tamriel Unlimited edition before console players, on 17th March. All accounts, open or closed, will be updated, and there will be special offers to entice lapsed players back.

We've seen a glimpse of the PS4 and Xbox One version of ESO before, and it looked a lot like single-player Elder Scrolls game Skyrim.

Game director Matt Firor has been adamant that the console versions are "not just ports of the PC/Mac game", and benefit from a redesigned user interface, voice chat and full PlayStation Network and Xbox Live integration.

The Elder Scrolls Online got off to a rocky start on PC last spring, failing to really capture the hearts of either single-player Elder Scrolls fans or MMO devotees. But with the console version coming around it has another chance at convincing us, showing what difference a year of live development can make.

While you're thinking about all that, here's a lavish new CGI trailer for the game.

The most bland Games come from elder scrolls. Never got the love. Game looked terrible from the start

What a shocking surprise that it went free

Eh, whatever floats your boat i guess. Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind are pretty awesome IMO.

Nobody saw it coming

Every Elder Scrolls game is bland. Technically: it's in line with the series.

I'll play this now. Looks like it's losing the subscription come March 17th.

Hahahahahaha.
"We won't go free to play."
Suckers!

Looks like time to try is coming soon. No way would I ever pay a subscription fee.

Was going to be interested if it was free-to-play.

Still not interested.

Elders scrolls games require like 200 mods in order to be halfway decent.

Since this is an MMO it can't be modded which makes it worthless.

Sweet. Now I'll actually try it out.

@uninspiredcup: SWEEEET! Day One for me!

'TESO will no longer require a subscription fee to play. As with Guild Wars 2, when you buy the game you can play it in full, online, for no extra charge.'

This is all i needed to know...

I love TES but i don't support subscriptions. Day one now :)

It's about time They realize that Subscription Based MMOs are a thing of the past.

Subscriptions work well if the game in question is high quality, ESO wasn't unfortunately.

One surprise I expected, the other wasn't a surprise at all. I was hoping for F2P (like Lord of the Rings Online).

Ya, I know people love it.

Even if the game is high quality I don't find paying $10 or $20 a month justifiable for me. If all you ever played was that particular MMO then sure, more power to you, but I think it's just a waste of time giving a company your money for the off chance that you might play their game 1 day of the entire month let alone year.

Lol, is funny that i only know this game thanks to the multiple appearance in several Worst Games of 2014 lists that i saw.

Finally. If the community gets bigger it might be worth getting into.

B2P =/= F2P.

You're right, it's worse XD.
It's not even worth that at all!
I think I even deleted my account information so that I would not accidentally reinstall this crap.

Subscription works well if... the game is WoW.

Subscription model is most likely flawed in the very first place. WoW is the only MMO that stayed with subscription model and managed to make significant amounts of money. Other MMOs still too stubborn (EVE) or new (FF14) to switch to F2P are not nearly as successful under the spotlight.

As we can see from over a decade of MMO history, success is not the natural result of a subscription model for MMOs. Instead, failure is the natural result. WoW is the ultimate exception rather than the norm. The only reason it managed to stick with the subscription model is because the game pretty much created the modern MMO crowd (vastly more massive than the small pre-WoW market). By the time everyone settled in WoW, they'd already have plenty of friends and connections. As such, people end up staying subbed primarily because of the connections they made in-game, not just because they really want that next raid Blizz is making.

ermahgerd!! frer ter plerrr

I'll probably be trying it out, just cause. It might be good enough to while away some hours

Ofc not, you had played The Last of Us instead:P

Bad voice acting! Monotonous grinding! Uninspired Overworld! And Zerg PVP Endgame!

You understand that most video games are B2P ...right?

Like GTA and Halo, etc. Buy to play.

i'm sure tens of people are ecstatic