User blog comment:SleepingIII/Zenimax Online Studios Layoffs/@comment-11343076-20140918130958/@comment-5469467-20140924103216

Wrong way around, actually. Bethesda is the one who creates the singleplayer games. But yes, they aren't the ones who made Online. That was Zenimax, in this case.

As for a transition to F2P...we'll see. P2P doesn't seem to be as popular as it once was, but it seemed like Zenimax was providing bang for the player's buck.