User blog comment:Kacj321/The Elder Scrolls Online Confirmed/@comment-3062372-20120504042823

I'm quite surprised at most people's reactions to this but I see why you are upset. Here's how I feel...

Pros: All of Tamriel can be explored in detail, get to explore the world with friends, takes place in second era which I would love to see, developed by a different company so future bethesda games are not compromised, I hardly think that Zenimax will forbid Bethesda to make more TES later on (If TESO does well) when the people who founded Zenimax were originally from Bethesda in the first place (plus they havent restricted bethesda in the past have they?)

Cons: Can't come out for consoles so many elder scrolls fans won't or can't play it, have to explore the world with trolls... every MMO has its trolls, developed by a different company whom we have no idea how they will treat the series, lack of incentive for Elder Scrolls VI (What would be the point of exploring say elsweyr if some of us were just there? [Actually another con, we WERE just in Skyrim and Cyrodiil, how will we react if TESO's are nothing like the originals? Or if they are too much the same?]) The aspect of being alone in the world is taken away (likely)

So over all, there looks like there could be a lot of cons with it. That might stop you but it won't stop me. Don't worry about it affecting TESVI and such. How could it? Bethesda has stated several times they don't plan to make a multiplayer game themselves, so whats wrong with letting someone else do it?