Zenimax – Page 6 – MMO Fallout

Elder Scrolls Online Ask Me Anything

Zenimax has a fresh batch of questions and answers regarding the Elder Scrolls Online, and the topics range from skills and campaigns and everything in between. While campaigns between the factions last for three months at a time, nothing is reset at the end of a campaign except for the leaderboards and score. Keeps, scroll ownership, emperor status, and location do not. The most interesting answer from the Q&A was that Zenimax dodged the question on whether or not a player who is infected and becomes a werewolf or a vampire will be able to transform back. Our guess is yes, but Zenimax is being coy.

No word on how this affects player-operated gentleman clubs.

(Source: Elder Scrolls Online)

Player Operated Gentleman Clubs In Elder Scrolls Online

According to Matt Firor of Zenimax Studios, Elder Scrolls Online will not have a pre-installed gentleman’s club. Fans of the series will recall that in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, players could visit Desele’s House of Earthly Pleasures. Not as popular a location as Mehrune’s House of Strider Sausage and Goat Cheese, but that’s beside the point. Instead, Firor inserted a side note that just because the game doesn’t come with such a facility out-of-box, doesn’t mean players won’t find an empty house to set one up for themselves.

Similar to what we saw with the (in)famous Goldshire Inn from the incredible World of Warcraft, we Ultimately decided to leave these choices up to the player to establish things like the House of Earthly Delights from Morrowind. Were not implimenting it ourselves…but whose to say there isnt a vacant building in Suran just waiting to be turned into ESO’s first whore-house! ESO is about choice, and well leave the implementation of those choices up to the “creative” players.”

Does anyone object to me naming the building Mehrune’s Dagger?

Video of the _____: Elder Scrolls Online Character Creator

I am not an adventurer, but I do play one in video games, and I’ve spent enough time in Cyrodil and Morrowind to know that not every hero is a buff, handsome man or Vogue model with large boobs. In fact, many of them have faces only a mother could love, and that’s pushing it. Luckily, as the character creator trailer for Elder Scrolls Online shows, I can once again reign terror on evil as my pot-bellied archer.

Bethesda Wants Elder Scrolls Online Separated From Xbox Live Fees

Xbox Live Gold requires a monthly subscription in order to play your games online. When you figure that Elder Scrolls Online already has a cover charge of $14.99 a month, this means that Xbox users will be expected to pay 20% more than their PC brethren and possibly PS4 users (Sony has previously said that publishers will decide on the PS+ requirement). The good news is that Bethesda is working behind the scenes to convince Microsoft to give the company a pass. According to Paul Sage from Zenimax:

“we have been in talks with Microsoft about that very thing, and seeing whether or not there’s any room to change their minds about that, for folks who are only paying The Elder Scrolls Online and don’t want to pay for an Xbox Live Gold subscription, just to pay the Elder Scrolls Online.

Will it work? Probably not, if previous attempts are any indication. Microsoft isn’t exactly known for making exemptions.

(Source: OXM)

The Distinction Between Account Service And Cash Shop

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)

I’m Quoting You On This, Zenimax

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Zenimax has come out and revealed the big news behind The Elder Scrolls Online: The game will be subscription based. And just like many developers before them, Zenimax has opened up to this model in the only way that developers know how, by discussing how inferior or incompatible free to play is. So on the off chance that Zenimax does make Elder Scrolls free to play, I thought I would put their opinion on the model right front and center.

F2P, B2P, etc. are valid, proven business models – but subscription is the one that fits ESO the best, given our commitment to freedom of gameplay, quality and long-term content delivery. Plus, players will appreciate not having to worry about being “monetized” in the middle of playing the game, which is definitely a problem that is cropping up more and more in online gaming these days.

One down payment and a flat monthly fee gets you 100% of the content? Sounds great, I will have three. I’m holding you to this, Zenimax. If you make The Elder Scrolls Online free to play, you will have to live forever knowing that your actions caused mild disappointment in an editorial writer you have never met.

(Source: PC Gamer)

I'm Quoting You On This, Zenimax

F2P, B2P, etc. are valid, proven business models – but subscription is the one that fits ESO the best, given our commitment to freedom of gameplay, quality and long-term content delivery. Plus, players will appreciate not having to worry about being “monetized” in the middle of playing the game, which is definitely a problem that is cropping up more and more in online gaming these days.

(Source: PC Gamer)

Elder Scrolls Online Gameplay Commentary

Am I the only one who thinks that characters in the Elder Scrolls game always look like they’re wearing wigs and fake beards? Computer and Video Games’ own Andy Kelly and Dan Wheeler break down the visuals, environments, and more of The Elder Scrolls Online in this twenty three minute video. It is a little on the dry side, but the commentary is rather informative and you do get an opportunity to see some first person action and some still shots.

Angry Joe Interviews Zenimax

Angry Joe has an interview up with Zenimax discussing just about every aspect of The Elder Scrolls Online you can think of. I suggest watching the video, rolling in at fifteen minutes total. The interview is peppered with a fair amount of gameplay video, showing off combat including the reintroduction of first person mode, which players have been demanding for some time.

Subscription model and pricing are still in discussion, and the game is set for Spring 2014 release.

Fallout MMO Back On The Table? Zenimax Working On F2P MMO

It’s been a while since we’ve had an opportunity to talk about the long dead Project V13, since January when Bethesda won its lawsuit against Interplay and subsequently terminated the Fallout MMO. Meanwhile, Zenimax Studios continues its long development of The Elder Scrolls Online, an MMO adaptation that has left fans curious and the media rather underwhelmed. But with the lawsuit now over and done with, players want to know: Will we ever see a Fallout MMO?

The answer is possibly. Rich Vogel, formerly of Bioware, has joined Zenimax Studios under a brand new development team, Battlecry Studios. So far Zenimax has only commented that the team is working on an unannounced project, however job listings at Battlecry are looking to fill the position of monetisation designer. The MD’s jobs entails designing an economy around the unannounced game, managing prices of virtual goods and maintaining a balance between the free and paid currencies.

Now remember that there is no specific mention of Fallout anywhere, but with The Elder Scrolls already undergoing the MMO treatment and Bethesda’s determination to grab the MMO rights back from Interplay, it stands to reason that this could be an online Fallout title.

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