Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-81.149.28.26-20130527200339/@comment-7153552-20130805043118

They have confirmed it will, they outright said the whole reason for going backwards in the timeline with ESO is so that Bethesda can move forward with TES. All these nay-sayers are just doom and gloom after what happened to Warcraft and Knights of the Old Republic when WoW and SWTOR came out (respectively).