Having put close to a thousand hours into Skyrim its come to my attention that since Bethesda is shifting its efforts to compete in the over saturated MMO market, where does that leave the Elder Scrolls, or the single player role playing experience for that matter? For years Bethesda has released the best single player role playing games ever made. Its only competitor "imo" is Bioware to a lesser degree & after the ME3 ending catastrophe, a massive portion of their fanbase was lost.

So what does that mean for games like Skyrim? Will there be another single player experience that can compete with it? With so many companies flocking to the MMO scene to compete over consumers $15.00 a month or to nickel & dime them to death through micro-transactions, what incentive is there for companies to make quality games like Skyrim where profit can only be generated through the initial game sales & DLC?

Bethesda isn't making The Elder Scrolls Online.
I think the next single player TES will probably be out 2017-2019.

Single-player games still have a higher market share than MMOs from what I understand. Beth would be shooting itself in the foot if they abandoned the thing that made them rich and famous. Besides Beth isn't even doing TESO and they've said that it will not affect their SP plans.

My opinion is exactly the opposite. I think that if Zenimax's Elder Scrolls Online is a success it will motivate Bethesda to produce even more single-player Elder Scrolls games. Because that is how capitalism works.

Here we go again...

Bethesda Softworks == publisher of all TES titles (and many others)

Bethesda Game Studios == developer of singleplayer TES series

Zenimax Online == developer of TESO

How hard can it be?