ZeniMax Online Studio’s Matt Firor has closed out the week with a dispatch for Elder Scrolls Online fans. While talking up ESO’s achievements on the stability and infrastructure front, he reveals that just in 2023, the game picked up another 2M players, even without counting free players coming from EGS, who pushed the game to its “highest monthly active user numbers since 2015.” He also notes that Necrom was the game’s “highest-rated Chapter,” though it’s unclear how that’s being measured.
Of course, players are probably most anxious to hear about what’s coming in next year’s content rollout, but Firor isn’t spoiling much except to point out the 2023 story ended on a cliffhanger that’ll continue over into 2024. “Next year will kick off with a Global Reveal show in January, and we are excited to continue the story from last year but in a different part of Tamriel,” he says. “It’s going to be great, and we have some new systems that I think everyone will want to hear about.
It also sounds as if the game will stick by its cadence with unique content like 2023’s infinite dungeons: “ESO is always about great storytelling, so we won’t abandon story quests and content, but we will balance it out with more systems like dungeons, trials, and special new content like Infinite Archive.”
Finally, Firor mentions the year-long world tour the game will enjoy starting in April in celebration of the game’s 10th anniversary.
