Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.19.77.180-20130604200439/@comment-3076045-20130807151252

Th3Antioch wrote: Timeoin wrote: Th3Antioch wrote: The thing with WoW is that it never started out as a single player game. TES did, and I know at least some players have called for a multiplayer mode. TES Online is merely meeting the demand for multiplayer, which could only previously be achieved through third party mods on the PC (if it all). Fun fact, from Grandpa Timeoin: Multiplayer has actually existed in a TES game in the past, but the game itself was such a failure overall that noone really noticed. Really? Which one? Was it Battlespire?

Yep! That it was.

But yeah ... terrible game overall.

On the plus side... it meant Bethesda were financially ruined, and were able to be bought out by Zenimax... which then funded them MASSIVELY for Morrowind... and from there onwards, so it all worked out for the best in the end.