Elder Scroll MMO officially announced, coming out in 2013 for PC/Mac

**Lie** · 05-03-2012

Originally Posted by GameInformer

Long rumored and much anticipated, The Elder Scrolls Online is finally being unveiled in the June issue of Game Informer. In this month's cover story we journey across the entire land of Tamriel, from Elsweyr to Skyrim and everywhere in between.

Developed by the team at Zenimax Online Studios, The Elder Scrolls Online merges the unmatched exploration of rich worlds that the franchise is known for with the scale and social aspects of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Players will discover an entirely new chapter of Elder Scrolls history in this ambitious world, set a millennium before the events of Skyrim as the daedric prince Molag Bal tries to pull all of Tamriel into his demonic realm.

"It will be extremely rewarding finally to unveil what we have been developing the last several years," said game director and MMO veteran Matt Firor, whose previous work includes Mythic's well-received Dark Age of Camelot. "The entire team is committed to creating the best MMO ever made – and one that is worthy of The Elder Scrolls franchise."

An in-depth look at everything from solo questing to public dungeons awaits in our enormous June cover story – as well as a peek at the player-driven PvP conflict that pits the three player factions against each other in open-world warfare over the province of Cyrodiil and the Emperor's throne itself.

Come back tomorrow morning for a brief teaser trailer from Zenimax Online and Bethesda Softworks, and later on in the afternoon for the first screenshot of the game. Over the course of the month, be sure to visit our Elder Scrolls Online hub, which will feature new exclusive content multiple times each week. You'll meet the three player factions, see video interviews with the creative leads, and much more.

The Elder Scrolls Online is scheduled to come out in 2013 for both PC and Macintosh.

Click the images below for the full-size renderings of the cover, and continue on to find out what other surprises are in the issue and when it will arrive:

Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featur...ls-online.aspx

I believe this is what many of you TES fans are waiting for?

I don't have much to expect since this basically would equate to no modding and more bugs than is possible for a MMO.

**Timotei** · 05-03-2012

Not to mention that Bethseda.

**Osayidan** · 05-03-2012

If it doesn't have the freedom and flexibility of a single player TES game, then it isn't a TES MMO.
So we'll have to see how it turns out.

**Sinsie** · 05-03-2012

I'm such a huge Elder Scrolls fan, absolutely love the games and lore, have to make sure I don't start playing Morrowind casually one day cause I know I'll dedicate weeks to nothing else but Morrowind in my free time.

And I don't like the idea of an MMO for Elder Scrolls... it just, I don't see how it's going to work in a good way.

**Hitaki** · 05-03-2012

If it's an MMO, there's not gonna be any of the ground breaking, game changing mods that I know and love out of Bethesda games. So I'm probably gonna pass on this and stick to my singleplayer games.