I doubt that they will have a Tes MMO as well as a regular TES. It just seems too much.

Thanks a lot for this clarification.
I must say this was the first time I witnessed the power of misleading information in www. And it is sad a bit, that so many game portals around the world base their news on a single article, that additionally has almost no quotes and very unclear transmission, and not on the official announcements. That they are very fast with releasing such news, and very lazy with taking back their words. However, the good thing is that there also many people, TES fans, who can read between the lines of such news and do not believe in everything what others may say until it is officially confirmed.

Phew, thanks. I'm relieved now. ^^)

MMOs take a lot of time to make even if both games started development at the same time the MMO could still come out years later, I wouldn't be surprised if they have already been working on the MMO for quite some time.

:celebration: :foodndrink: :celebrate: :twirl:
I was worried for a sec :lmao:
:woot: :clap:

finally, this thing is cleared up i was getting really sick of some people weeping over exaggerated comments

Thank god for this, this shows that beth cares about their fans. Thank you.

Happies! <3

If the community didn't keep blowing things out of proportion, this wouldn't happen. ?_?

Ugh... if only the other websites that blew this whole thing out of porportion had the common sense to investigate it further and actually go on the blog. But no... oh these "reporters" always go for the most incriminating and least true part of a story and then don't always take initiative to find out if their sources were true or not or if there was an official annnouncement. But that's me hating the general media. Stupid media.

Anyway, thanks for clearing that up!.

Whew! I consider myself a jaded gamer, but wow, when I read the "news" floating around about "No TES V," I was shocked! Then I thought, nah, can't be true, the TES series is so hugely popular. Set my heart racing for a minute or two, though...

Thank you for the clarification! I can now return to my regularly scheduled Oblivion game.

Woohoo! :celebration:

I read the interview, but people actually thought there would never be a TES:V? Haha.

I think it's unfortunately rather common:

http://screencrave.com/2009-07-01/votd-jeff-goldblum-confirms-his-own-death/



:D

Heheheh ... still, it's all been resolved happily. Good job the next one's not out for a while - I still haven't finished KOTN (though I've started it about eight or nine times now.)

:) Well, I guess I am not a www-guy and do not spend so much time on the web. But actually I meant that it was the first time I was able to see the process from the very beginning right to the end. And it was a very happy end! Now at least there is a hope ;] Once again, many thanks to Bethesda and Pete!

Panic over, eh. Although anyone who seriously thought that Bethesda would finish with The Elder Scrolls was wandering down Sheogorath's Golden Road.

Also; boo hiss at lousy journalism.

Indeed. I doubt they'd water down their main franchise with an mmo (atleast I hope), a Fallout MMO is more likely I think.

Well, being the experienced Beth fan that I am, I translated "next big game" to be TESV because we all that it will be.

And they have been working on TES V since Oblivion.

I still think the devs have no idea what they're doing. I mean, you have one guy saying "potential 2010 date" then we have "no future plans" then we have "no plans for an Elderscrolls" and then we have "that's not what me meant, of course we're making another one, we just don't want to say when or how much is finished"

I mean, seriously, they throw out so much useless information, and apparently withhold any solid dates to "prevent" angering fans if that date is not met.

Well, they get plenty angry when you have all kinds of half-statements that may or may not be true. How about saying "TES V has been in development since the completion of Oblivion, and we are preparing to release it within the next 2 years"

OR "We are too busy making other games we haven't realized people don't care about, so it's gonna be another 4-6 years. Please don't tell our investors"

The oft-quoted "2010" date was 1. pretty shaky at source, 2. generally misquoted, 3. made so long ago that it's long passed from any relevance and 4. only ever "potential".


Which is completely unreasonable, because Internet People never get angry.


If each game takes on average 5 years to make, then you're not going to announce it halfway through development, or you end up like Alan Wake with everyone staring at it and anything can happen (as it did with that game) because you just don't know what curveballs are going to be thrown at you while you're making the damn thing. Best to announce it when you know you're no more than a year or so away, when you have something definite and real to show, and you're not going to say "within the next 2 years" and then find out - oh snap! like with Oblivion - that there's something up that means you can't release it on schedule and have to pull it back for another 6 months. Notice no such delays with Fallout 3, and how although they were forced to announce it pretty early on, they didn't actually start talking about it until only a year or so before release?


I find it unlikely that they're going to announce that they're busy making games that they haven't realised other people don't care about, because I think people care very much about the last big game they released - the investors must be pleased as punch - and they're not actually making the likes of WET (even though people also seem to care quite a lot about that too).

:shrug:

thanks for the clarification.

I was about to post if anyone had a copy of the 'exact' Q&A(?), because obviously people would be blowing this out of proportion.



Haha, great line. And great comic.

Do you think they'll announce ESV (or whatever their next game is) in the same time interval that Fallout 3 was announced?

Thanks so much for clearing it up Pete, I and I'm sure everyone else really appreciates it!