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Personally i cannot see how ESO will have a very good effect on the franchise; The elder scrolls was and is an experience i believe never intended to be an mmorpg: the lore itself would fail to make sense. ESO is a very risky move for the franchise, as it will have to contend with the likes of WoW and such. There will be sales-no doubt about that- but players since oblivion, skyrim, morrowind and further back may feel alienated by the experience. So i think that two things could happen-either ESO is a roaring success and thus the die-hard fans would be neglected and replaced by a new race of gamers so that more profit can be made, or Still successful yet keeping to its roots. But my instinct tells me that the franchise will split in two.