User blog comment:MarkvA/Skyrim's Most Wanted Features and Fixes/@comment-85.12.76.63-20111213151443/@comment-127.0.1.29-20111213183247

the Elder Scrolls games were never meant to be multi-player. Bethesda has been against doing MMO's since one of their VERY unpopular game, which was a shooter MMO failed miserably. Even with it being only singe player, it is an amazing game. Multiplayer would be completly unecessary.