Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140703181806

Legoguy451 wrote: What is all this about not making an all Tamriel, hand drawn game? They have already done i with Elder Scrolls Online. Well, for a start, they haven't even made all of Tamriel; most of it's locked of for future DLC and expansions. Also, there were around 220 people or so developing Elder Scrolls Online, versus 100 people developing Skyrim. ESO also took 7 years. Skyrim was in full development for around three years (although they came up with the basic concept while developing Fallout 3). That makes (in theory) around four times as many man hours, so it is not possible for Bethesda themselves to make all of Tamriel in a reasonable time frame. Also, I think that TESO was less detailied than Skyrim or Oblivion, so it would in fact take even longer to make Tamriel if we want a good amount of detail.