I just got e-mail from gamespot.com telling that Elder Scrolls MMORPG would come in 2011. Anyone have more info?

Updating:

Just found page with more info.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/theelderscrollsivoblivion/news.html?sid=6246696

Can you copy and paste/ print screen the email?

If this is true then i'm not exactly as excited as i would be if it was a normal single player ES but i'm not going to complain either

Here is the text, silvous plait.


Elder Scrolls MMORPG due in 2011?

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Jan 20, 2010 4:02 pm PT
Bethesda's ongoing legal spat with Interplay yields info on multimillion-dollar "World of Warcraft"-style online game that purportedly should have been announced last year.


Source: Redacted court filings obtained by Fallout fansite Duck and Cover as well as industry hearsay from British gaming site VG247.

What we heard: In 2007, Bethesda Softworks parent company Zenimax Media formed Zenimax Online, a massively multiplayer online gaming arm headed by Mythic Entertainment cofounder Matt Frior. At the time, Zenimax was hush-hush on what the branch, which was given access to some $300 million in funding, was at work on. However, speculative eyes soon turned toward an MMORPG devoted to Bethesda's celebrated Elder Scrolls fantasy franchise, after Zenimax registered the URL elderscrollsonline.com.


Oblivion certainly was big enough to be a MMORPG.
Unfortunately, beyond that initial and altogether ambiguous sighting, no additional details about the game have surfaced. However, that changed this week, courtesy of court documents related to Bethesda's ongoing spat with Interplay over the Fallout license.

As reported by Duck and Cover, testimony from a preliminary injunction hearing held on December 29 between Bethesda and Fallout yielded information relating to Zenimax Online's project. Duck and Cover reports that the studio has "tens and tens of millions of dollars" as well as "close to a hundred people" wrapped up in crafting a "World of Warcraft"-style MMORPG. Bethesda reportedly has been trying to keep the project under wraps in an effort to stave off competition.

The testimony reportedly goes on to note that a team was assigned to the project in late 2006, with work entering full production since 2007. Duck and Cover's reading of the document had Bethesda's project on a four-year development cycle, indicating that the game could be released as soon as next year.

Unfortunately, Bethesda subsequently filed to have the pertinent information redacted from the court testimony, a motion that was approved this week. According to court documents, the revised document will be available once again to the public on March 29.

Still, the court transcript reportedly did not indicate the exact nature of Zenimax Online's project. However, it did reportedly note that the MMORPG in question is not related to Fallout, the rights for which Bethesda is currently disputing with Interplay.

However, British gaming news site VG247 claims to have been "very reliably informed" that the project is indeed an Elder Scrolls MMORPG. The site's source reportedly claimed that Bethesda had initially planned to announce the game in 2009 but that the reveal was canceled for an undisclosed reason.

The official story: Bethesda had not returned requests for comment as of press time.

Bogus or not bogus?: Looking not bogus. It seems unlikely that Bethesda and Zenimax would invest so heavily into a new intellectual property for a risky online effort--especially considering Elder Scrolls' strong following and suitable fantasy aesthetic.





*EDIT* I have tried now WoW for 12 days and I love it. It is different, new quests, monsters and enemy get tougher when you level up (no ease peazy, lemon squeezy) etc. I?ll buy this as soon as it comes on market.

I imagine a moderator will move this thread to another forum, but it still interesting.

VGA247 link from 1/20/2010: http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/20/source-bethesdas-elder-scrolls-mmo-missed-its-2009-reveal/

Moderators are referring people to use the http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1070334 to discuss this news.

I have read this, and i really don't hope it's real. TES is, and will always be a Single player RPG, and please don't stop that

Yes, please use that thread where this is already being discussed.