I am a huge follower of the elder scrolls. when i heard that oblivion was coming out awhile ago i had heard rumors that there would be a multiplayer option. obviously that was incorrect. however i have a suggestion to the company. what if you were to create a multiplayer add on. something like the imperial city arena. however i am aware of cheats in the game. my thought is that you could make a seperate setup screen for multiplayer. this would be a totally cheat free area in which you could take a new character entirely into battle, earn gold, buy weapons etc. and rank up. this would an exceptionally good challenge for gamers who get tired of fighting NPC/AI characters and creatures all of the time. it would provide a new unpredictable gaming experience. and of course if you make this a free add on you could have free play besides the initial purchase of Oblivion, but you could have specially marked items that could be purchased by gamers who enjoy getting an edge up. i hope you take this idea and make something with it, however i fully expect to be another face in the crowd. thank you for reading, Humogwing.

You should post this in the ongoing thread(s)!

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1078557&st=120&start=120

When Bethesda released the TES IV GOTY edition they officially ended developement for Oblivion. Even if this wasn't the case adding multiplayer to an engine after the fact is extremely difficult to do so this wouldn't have been considered either way.

As for future titles . . . there have been two Elder Scrolls spin-offs with multiplayer support so far, Battlespire and Shadowkey, and it's certainly possible that we'll see others some time in the future. Bethesda's sister studio, Zenimax Online Studios, may even be working on an Elder Scrolls MMO - they haven't said anything to this effect, but we know they're working on an MMO and it would make sense to use the Elder Scrolls universe.

However I doubt that the core Elder Scrolls series will ever have multiplayer. Even when you plan to include it from the get go it takes a considerable amount of time and work to implement even fairly basic multiplayer and Bethesda has stated before that they'd rather focus all of their resources on the core game. That is, adding multiplayer would require removing other features and they're not willing to do that.

Multiplayer is a very popular topic on the forums, and has been since they opened. Shadowhider has already linked to the official multiplayer discussion thread . . . I don't know how likely it is that we'll see a multplayer TES game but if you want to discuss your ideas that's the place to do it.