Bethesda "pushing" Microsoft to drop XBL Gold fee for Elder Scrolls Online

Waaaa waaaaaaa I have to pay 15 dollars a month! Guys seriously, even if you work at walmart that's what you make in two hours. The broke trolls on this website are plain hilarious praying and hoping for this game to go FTP. I remember when people were claiming World of Warcraft was going to be FTP when it came out. How is that working?

People wrongly compare this game to titles like Guild Wars and other MMO's. The reason games like WoW and ESO have the ability to succeed is that they have a legitimate story to back them up.

Microsoft180 will do it, they've changed everything else lately, why stop there?

Also, I want this game to succeed and go on for years and years.. SO DO IT, DO IT NOW BILL GATES :)

No chance in hell MS will allow that. There have been at least half a dozen MMO's originally announced for the 360 that got canned because of MS's restrictive policies.

Wait, you really went to Microsoft and asked them not to charge people.

Hahahaha...........When will they ever learn.

...I sense a wave of new PC gamers approaching.

if you get an x1 most people will get the 12 month subscription for other games anyway .... so whats the point

Eddie, Playstation owners do NOT need to pay the $15/month on top of the Playstation Plus membership. Playstation Plus is not required for Free to Play games. Please fix this.

Seems to me someone's got something backwards somewhere. Microsoft should be pushing Bethesda to do away with the fee entirely for Xbox users.

Unless those who play TESO on the XB1 can also play on the PC, I don't see why Bethesda is asking MS to drop its XBLG fee instead of just reducing the subscription for TESO on XB1 $10 instead of 15. They can figure out between themselves who gets what percentage of that $15/mo and how the money flows as long as players don't get ripped off for $60 a year.

I can't see how this deal would be a massive benefit. I reckon that 95% of people who are/were interested in this game would probably already be a Gold/PSN member already. Do Bethesda seriously think that there is a majority of people wanting to play this that wouldn't be playing other online games?

The best deal they should trying to work out, is a lower subscription for Xbox Gold members, and maybe 15 Dollars for Silver subscriptions.

Any1 want to start taking some bets on how long it takes to get botched into a Free-to-play model? :)

I have an idea! DONT MAKE YOUR GAME 15 DOLLARS A MONTH!!! Fucking hate Bethesda for doing this shit. Pay to play needs to die. A game should either be Free to Play or 60 dollars. I'm sick of these MMO's thinking they get special privileges to charge people monthly for their games. There's no argument for it, its just a money grab.

Yeah right. Good luck with that Bethesda.

Either the game is partly being hosted on MS/Sony's infrastructure, in which case Bethesda shouldn't be charging a full $15/month for it (compared to say WoW, where Blizzard pays for 100% of the server costs), or it's not hosted on XBL/PSN at all, in which case they have no justification to require it.

Your giving them money for something they don't have to pay for. Microsoft doesn't host the servers so why do we still need Xbox gold in-order to play?

hey console fannys...looks like they are trying to screw you guys too. I guess we all have something in common now.

It wont be a PC or console buy from what I;ve been reading :) Pity because this looks like an amazing game. Sadly priced too high for me

these lousy consoles just need to go away!

"They cannot drop it for us because they would have to drop it for everyone and it would be a total mess for them."

I remember MS saying they can not change their DRM policies and be hold they did a complete 180. So yes if they really wanted to MS can remove the GOLD for specific games they just don't want to.

People who don't want or need Xbox Gold shouldn't have to give MS a single fucking cent for the privilege of playing a game that's nothing to do with them.

MS: insanely greedy fucktards I can never understand how they get away with this shit. Oh wait, people are incredibly stupid, yep I remember now.

In other words: This will be a PC buy...

MS won't drop the fee because MS isn't stupid.

they know that after 6 months the ESO is going to go free to play.

and that would make MS look like dicks if they drop the fee now only to have to reintroduce it when it goes f2p.

common fucking sense.

They should also push Sony to drop the PS+ fee's for the PS4 as well since you have to pay to play online, unless that has already been resolved.

2 words Bethesda: GOOD LUCK

seriously tho...I was looking foward to play TES Online untill I heard about the sub fee. It's not that I mind paying per se but to think that the only thing I am paying for is customer service and I am somehow helping to fund the development of the game in progress is kinda hard to swallow. I mean the last MMO I payed for was EQ back 13 years ago and then I really didn't think about the fee I was paying; this fee to play the game when I allready purchased it retail and had to pay for the expansion packs on top of retail fee and monthly. I mean to be honest that 15 dollars a month that I pay extra what am I getting for it ? Mind you I'm not a whiner in the least I truely love TES but Beth needs to explain to the console users what we are getting in that 15 bucks a month.

So be it, moving right along, next!

Ehh - what!?! You have to pay an additonal fee to play ESO??? Okay - that's it, count me out.

I don't see why they couldn't. Final Fantasy XI didn't require players to be an XBL gold member because it was on Square's own personal servers. Anything running off of personal servers rather than MS's have the option to bypass XBLG. Honestly though, I don't see the point in this. Even if they drop the gold requirement, is anybody actually going to go out and pay $500 for a console and a Kinect JUST to play TES:O? Anybody playing it on Xbox likely bought it for a multitude of other games that will likely require XBLG anyway. Catering to a VERY small percentage of the fanbase here. I'd rather they just found a way to make the monthly fee cheaper. Good way to offset what gamers are already paying to play PS4/XB1.

They can't drop it. It would be a disaster. Everyone would demand it then. It's not that much money anyway. Who in the hell doesn't have a gold subscription by now. If no one wants to pay then as I always say, how about if you went into work today and your boss said you know what I don't feel like paying you for today. Also I think a fee of some sort weeds out some of the players that act like children. That's why I hated playing FFXI on a console.

How about just removing the $60 purchase fee and dropping the subscription fee to around $4.99 instead.

well they let people play FFXI online without XBLGold so i don't see why they can't do it with The Elder Scrolls Online

either that or Bethesda could charge less for the XBOX versions to the same amount as XBL cost's per month

there is a way around it but both company's are just being greedy and trying to get just a little bit more from us

...or they could just do the right thing and charge $10 lowering their fee for consoles and keeping the $15 fee for pc since they dont have to pay a gold/psn fee.