
If the Elder Scrolls community can be called anything, it is passionate. So with the details that the Elder Scrolls MMO will, for better or for worse, share very minimal game features with its single player brethren, response has understandably been mixed. In an interview with Eurogamer, Game Director Matt Firor wants it known that the same style of epic storytelling will be present in the MMO, albeit in an instanced form. Firor likened the technique to killing Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion:
The last thing you want to do is have the final confrontation with Mehrunes Dagon as he’s stomping across the Imperial City, and you see like 15 guys behind you waiting to kill him because they’re on the same quest.
The Elder Scrolls Online story will be 100% instanced and solo, according to Zenimax. You will be the one true hero. You and everybody else.
(Source: Eurogamer)