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Apparently role players are getting hit hard.
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That headline is a mouthful.
Starting March 22, Xbox Live Gold members can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online for free for one week. The free week begins at 7a.m. UK time (about 3a.m. EST) and you may want to start the download before you go in to work/school, as the game rings in at a walloping 80 gigabytes. If you purchase the game during or after the free week ends, you’ll be able to keep your progress including any crown packs or store items purchased.
The week ends on March 27 at 3a.m. Players interested in purchasing the game can do so at a discounted rate during the week.
This promotion is already live on PC and Playstation 4.
(Source: Elder Scrolls Online)

IGN managed to interview Zenimax’s own Matt Firor, who revealed that housing is coming to The Elder Scrolls Online in the first quarter of 2017. Before player owned houses come to Tamriel, Zenimax plans on dropping an update in August that will add a customizing barbershop and an Argonian dungeon pack.
The dungeon pack represents a new form of content delivery that Zenimax is aiming for, creating smaller, almost episodic content for players to come back to.
“It’s interesting to see what happens when you take away the subscription model away,” Firor explained. “You don’t see a hardcore playstyle – like playing for six months and then quitting – we don’t see that. We have a lot of players who will play for two or three weeks because they want to get through a zone and then stop. Then they come back two months later for another month, because there’s no pressure to play all of it at once.
Housing is a staple of the Elder Scrolls series, so it’s not surprising that players have been clamoring for it since the game initially launched. Housing joins recent major revelations, from the impending launch in Japan to content scaling to the player’s level.
(Source: IGN)
The Elder Scrolls Online is now available free of subscription. Anyone who previously purchased the game will already be able to log in with access to the base game and all of its updates up to this point. Subscribers are automatically boosted to ESO Plus, and receive the associated bonuses.
More information can be found at the link below.
(Source: Elder Scrolls Online)

Zenimax’s Matt Firor stated in an interview that Elder Scrolls Online required a box price and subscription because free to play, while valid, just wasn’t compatible for the game that they were building. So with Zenimax claiming that the experience is all about being able to enjoy the game for a flat subscription with no monetization being shoved in the player’s face, instinctively I asked how long it would take before Zenimax confirmed a cash shop. I expected something more like a few months after launch, not twenty four hours after the article was published.
An article on ESO Hub confirms through Matt Firor that Elder Scrolls Online will have a cash shop.
According to Matt Firor will be available in The Elder Scrolls Online an item shop, where her character fun items and services you can buy as a renaming of the character.
BUT! I am still holding my breath on this one. Account services like renaming being an added fee is pretty standard even going back to subscription games without cash shops. Now the question is regarding what Zenimax considers to be “fun items.”
(Source: ESO Hub)