User blog comment:SleepingIII/Elder Scrolls Online - ESO Going B2P and Console Updates/@comment-5436695-20150124213420/@comment-5436695-20150125054319

That's not about technical ability to develop something (having enough time etc.). Needn't remind that Oblivion version of Gamebryo was used for three games (Oblivion itself, Fallout 3 and New Vegas). And Skyrim CE surely ain't outdated to be abandoned after one single game. That's about marketing. Bethesda is not the developer of ESO, but it IS the publisher of it. And they wouldn't agree to any free-to-play mode without having a serious stage of a flagship project development. There are two of them - TES and Fallout - but my bet is still on TES, because we already had two Fallouts in a row, while ESO could not be called something to satisfy classical role-players. Plus Skyrim ending had obvious hints that the Fourth Era ain't over yet, and we will have at least one game about war with Summerset.