User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/E3 Elder Scrolls Online Roundup/@comment-86.180.239.40-20130629143154/@comment-3124449-20130701040408

Also, about the artifacts...they have confirmed that they will be present. I suspect that they will belong to the player at the top of a leaderboard of players doing missions for the specific Daedric Lord, it something like that. If each player can obtain a copy, it kind of defeats the purpose of it being an artifact.
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