Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.135.236.134-20140226125517/@comment-3071432-20140313133448

While I also expecting TESO to be a incredible game, I somewhat fear its release.

The game looks good and have very interesing ideas in it: but I fear that it's success or failure will have the same effect on the TES single-player series: an abandonment on the part of Bethesda.

-A success would probably have for effect, in my experience, that Bethesda will focus on TESO, and only in TESO. Think about World of Warcraft: it's only after a veeery long time that Blizzard finally worked on a new game on the Warcraft universe: and it's a free-to-play collectible card game. There's also the example of Ultima Online.

-A failure would forever stain the TES image, if not in the head of the fans, in the head of shareholders in Zenimax: "Okay, that new game costed us millions and have no success? Let's ditch that franchise! Bethesda needs some restructuration...". Failure could come because of various things that have no relation whatsoever with the quality of the game: people being disappointed that it's not Arena-Daggerfall-Morrowind-Oblivion-Skyrim 2.0, MMO fans not having what they are accostumed to and returning on World of Warcraft, people not kenn on paying each month in the era of Free-To-Play... and I could go on.

What I woult want is Bethesda to NOT ditch singleplayer roleplaying games in the TES universe for any reason. There's still much to be done with the franchise following that way.

Yes I want TESO, but I also want TES6 dammit!