User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-6751723-20130923233342/@comment-4043978-20130929213724

Before we jump Bethesda, know taht they are galdly not the company undertaking the project. Rather, the parent company, ZeniMax Media LLC, shuffled for it and the ZeniMax Online subcompany began.

SO, the Elder Scrolls series is, primarily, and for all intensive purposes, a singleplayer franchise;

The Elder Scrolls Online will only live up to its name, provided that certain rumored characteristics are removed, and that the general fanbase agrees with what is being done (although that is not at all substantial; companies do what they do, business driven by fans is only an authority among its own- to the fans. Their voice has a say, but within reason, right?)