User blog comment:Equillibrium/Elder Scrolls Online: Character Creation/@comment-11441665-20131019005308/@comment-98.65.226.137-20131028173709

Yeah,right around when fallout 3 came out,Zenimax,the publication company that owns Bethesda,opened up a new studio called Zenimax online studios,with the sole purpose of making ESO..and they basically started working on ESO right as Bethesda started working on Skyrim.so Bethesda has nothing to do with eso besides lore,as skullvondude said.