Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5894328-20140102184105/@comment-24400038-20140221180906

BOSS SUKR wrote: So... with a lot of mods in skyrim it could potenially be our ver of ES VI

I'm not getting ESO because i'm an offline player and having to keep paying is a major turnoff for me.

My younger brother lives with me, he is a big gamer compared to me (five+ hours a day)

He was talking about getting it until I told him it's pay to play. He's a Diablo player so he hates p2p like I do. That point alone turned him off of ESO 100%. When I continued to tell him about the cash shop he simply got pissed and asked if Bethesda was trying to kill off TES. He was glad to know that ESO (Zenimax) isn't TES VI, and that another single player TES would be launched at some point.

MMO's with cash shops always fail within years because people that don't pay the extra usually become weak, and people that pay extra become strong. The struggling, now weaker players stop paying the $15/mo because they loose interest in a game they cannot keep up in.

After 12-18, maybe 24 months, all that is left are the few players that do want to pay $15/mo AND continue to buy the new cash gear as it comes out. They continue to have a bank race, but with no basic suscribers to "pick on" they slowly loose interest. Within 24-30 months, the game has no players.

Of course, in the short run, Zenimax would have made a TON of money off of the cash shops (100% proffit) as well as the $15/mo subscriptions and $60 retail game.