Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.135.236.134-20140226125517/@comment-4651167-20140316202954

Timmyr0x0r wrote: While I also expecting TESO to be a incredible game, I somewhat fear its release.

The game looks good and have very interesing ideas in it: but I fear that it's success or failure will have the same effect on the TES single-player series: an abandonment on the part of Bethesda.

-A success would probably have for effect, in my experience, that Bethesda will focus on TESO, and only in TESO. Think about World of Warcraft: it's only after a veeery long time that Blizzard finally worked on a new game on the Warcraft universe: and it's a free-to-play collectible card game. There's also the example of Ultima Online. Yes, but since TESO fits in about a thousand years before Skyrim (And yes, it IS canon! Check out the interregnum period which this fits into and which Tiber Septim ended...), that basically means that the future of the TES series is still plenty open. Which, ya know, is good.

On the side of Warcraft, they started with the first, second and third game and then released WoW which canonically, I THINK, takes place about five years after Warcraft III: Frozen Throne (If I am wrong about the time difference, I apologize). As such, in order to continue the story, they've released expansion packs which furthers the storyline. To be completely honest, I don't think a new Warcraft game would probably come until either WoW finishes (Which I feel would be odd for such an MMO) or unless they decide to do a different time period, like 200 years into the future or 200 years into the past.