User blog comment:Madman97/The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Announced/@comment-25896372-20170201100442

I guess this means we won't get any single player Elder Scrolls anytime soon. This is only to lure oldtimers who grew up on ESIII Morrowind into ESO. I can understand that Todd's boys are busy unwinding/spending the loot after Fallout4, and that Zenimax put too much time and money into Zenimax Online and ESO to let it go, but lots of ES fans heven't even tried ESO, and if so, they quickly became dissatisfied with it. So Tenimax Online wants to refresh popularity with nostalgia - just as Bethesda did with the Dragonborn DLC for ESV (looking back, I think it's obvious that after ESIV, lots of fans wanted another Morrowind, there was much ranting after Oblivion that Morrowind was sooo better and stuff, so Todd and co. made them a treat-DLC to shut them up). But it's not incidental that most RPG players are either singleplayer or multiplayer - MMO just seems to be a better/long-time investment for the Zenimax. The problem is that with ESO, Zenimax targeted an audience that fell in love with the singleplayer ES, and they ended up with the few gamers who reside in the overlap between ES fans and MMORPG players - just as with ESLegends. I don't have any problem with ESO, my problem is that they have the capacity to satisfy both SP and MMO players, but they want to minimise expense and maximise profit by combining the two, and they can't see that there are more potential buyers to a singleplayer Elder Scrolls than to any other genre with the Elder Scrolls label on it.