Official TES V Speculation Thread # 54 : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:55 am

The thing i dont understand is why BGS has this secrecy about TES V, i dont think that announcing the game would hurt them... or at least a "yeah where working in the game", the masses would be tamed and they would continue doing the same job as everyday...

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:03 pm

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While the theory is solid, there still are some things wrong with it. If you didn't notice, the months listed are more than half the months in the year. It lists 7 months. The possibility of this being a simple coincidence is quite high in my opinion. Plus, why would Bethesda create a pattern to follow? It does not make that much sense to me.

Other than those two bits of skepticism that's the best pattern Ive seen so far; on these forums and off I have seen about 8 of them.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:57 am

I know i usually say that finding patterns in Bethesda's past is futile... and for the most part, it is... but I just realized something. http://i25.tinypic.com/5c0jtg.jpg Since Morrowind was announced, not once has Bethesda done anything major on any months except those highlighted. No announcement of a game, no release of a game, and no release of an expansion, happened on a month other than those highlighted. Hell, all of the Skyrim trademarks were filed on those months, but I just decided not to add them to the list. I really doubt that's all a coincidence. My theory is that May, June and July are because of E3 and the hype surrounding that time. September, October and November are because of the holiday season. And March, well, I have no idea. It's the end of the 2nd quarter of the fiscal year in the U.S. but I doubt that's the reason. Maybe they just like March? I don't know.

Point is, I'm thinking that if Bethesda hasn't diverged from this pattern for 10 years, they wont start doing it any time soon. So while we still can't accurately predict when it will be announced, we can use this to control our hype. Based on this, we shouldn't expect anything to happen in August. If they don't announce it by the end of July we might as well forget about it until September. And if, come November, if nothing has been announced, we should forget about it until March. As so on and so forth.

What do you guys think? I know I'm grasping at straws here but this seems to make for a solid pattern.

A season pattern could be logic. From a sales prospective in relation to the holidays etc and it is also reasonable to do so from a fiscal/accounting p.o.v. :grad:

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:44 pm

I don't want TES V to become an MMO since I feel it could upset many players such as myself, but it would be great if there was some sort of small online play to where you can invite people from your friendslist to maybe hang out together, kill some things.
What I mean by I don't want it to be an MMO is that I don't want there to be an option where you choose a realm, you get on and there are about 500-2000 people asking "how do I do this?" "where is this?" "help plox!?"

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:43 pm

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