http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/08/17/clarifying-about-next-elder-scrolls-game-mmo-etc/

Well it says its not an official Bethesda blog, rather one for members of Beth staff to express their personal views
Since GStaff is listed as one of the contributors you could PM him and find out

Since both http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1029880 to bring our attention to it in the first place, saying quote "we thought we'd set the record straight on some things brought up regarding the future of The Elder Scrolls," I'd say it's pretty official, even if the blog itself does not legally represent the official views of Bethesda as a company.

:facepalm: How is it fake if it's linked on every part of Bethesda's game site. Which I mean there's links on the official Fallout 3 and Oblivion sites.

Yes it's real, it is a page from the http://bethblog.com/, linked at the top of every forum page here.

You may find http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1029880&st=0&start=0 as it includes additional clarification and discussion of that post.

So Bethesda will only say something when they can show something that is amazing? Does that mean, TES V or what ever big game they are working on is CRAPPOLA? I don't think so. Bethesda just has to say TES V: blank, and we would all wet ourselves. That would be amazing enough for us, for 3-5 years. Just give us the title name.

Oh well, 3 more years to go ;p

Yes, it's more or less the official blog. Here's the http://bethblog.com/index.php/about-the-blogworks/

What Bethesda wants is to show us something that will represent the game upon its release. It's not necessarilly poor in quality at the moment. It simply isn't finished. The reasons Bethesda don't want to announce something that they can't show for is that:
1. They don't want to misrepresent the game with descriptive words and ideas that later have to be cut for various reasons.
2. They don't want to increase the pressure and spotlight on themselves and the game until it's ready.
3. They don't want the game to be "overhyped" which just ruins the situation for everyone.
Until Bethesda is ready to advertise their new project, I would prefer that they don't talk about it. (Not to mention the heavy criticism that will hail forth from this board when even a screenshot is released or the setting is shown.)
Also, the above statement is the opinion this user and not neccessarilly the opinion of Bethesda employees.

im glad they are not doing an MMO, that would svck hard balls

No it means that they're only going to unveil a game when they have a substantial amount of content to show us. It was the same way with Fallout 3, Shivering Isles, Oblivion, Bloodmoon, and Tribunal.

We did have a name for Fallout 3 before they started developement but that hardly changed the situation. If anything it made things worse. You say that a title along would be "amazing enough for us, for 3-5 years," but in my experience on the forums this isn't the case.