Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-1453578-20131116202358/@comment-10207438-20131116204252

24.44.141.89 wrote: Alex Gonzalez wrote: 24.44.141.89 wrote: Alex Gonzalez wrote: or wait until the release of TES: VI. If it comes. I don't think that TES: Online will be the last thing we'll se from TES. I mean, that would be kinda meh, at least for me. I don't know, but I don't see TES Online with the same eyes I see the other The Elder Scrolls games. I guess I liked the singleplayer. TES:O is just a spin-off. It's not part of the main series. It takes place 1000 years before Skyrim. Also, it's being made by Zenimax, not Bethesda. I mean that I think that Skyrim will be the last TES game. That's just my opinion.

The reason it's a prequal/spinoff is because Zenimax(the parent company) didn't want to back Bethesda into a corner for their next games in the series.