Nimzabaat said:
Comparing this to the Skyrim trailers makes it seem a little... lackluster?
That's because this isn't made by Bethesda themselves. Bethesda only had a consulting role on the lore for this game. From the info that I have read it seems to be a WoW copy with Elder Scrolls lore in it.
Now if this game was free-to-play or even freemium I could potentially get into it, but if it's subscription based, well... they know what to put their mouths around.
Codeknight said:
What exactly is Zenimax Online Studios gameography? I can't find anything. They aren't that new, Wikipedia says they've been around since 2007 but haven't made anything. Seems odd that a seemingly untried studio is picked to develop a title as big as The Elder Scrolls.
There actually isn't.
Zenimax Online is a branch of Zenimax, the company that owns Bethesda, ID Software and several others.
So Zenimax is actually developing the game in-house, since they own both companies, but they are different subdivisions with possibly hardly any contact between them.
So yeah... this is just a quick money grab to see how many players they can pull away from WoW and trying to ride the wave of success that Skyrim brought.
So don't expect an epic gameworld like in Skyrim, just a WoW clone made to look like Tamriel.