User blog comment:SleepingIII/Elder Scrolls Online - ESO Going B2P and Console Updates/@comment-5436695-20150124213420/@comment-5436695-20150125173725

I know it. :) Obsidian are my long-time favorite plot writers of the whole video game industry. But again, Bethesda was the publisher of FNV. The same thing as with the book industry - the publisher is the boss, not the writer. Remember, Skyrim was published exactly a year after FNV, despite it was under development almost since Oblivion release. No one wanna lose his old product's sales even having a new one. And making an online game free-to-play (I use this term for games without regular payments) means the final stage of it's sales. That's why I think we gonna have the announcement of a new flagship product soon. Concerning the bet on the new TES game - one more reason is that TES fans are not as patient as their Fallout fellows to wait for a new main game for ten years.