the elder scrolls online

Official Site: The Elder Scrolls Online
Studio: ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks
Launch Date: April 4, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Buy-to-play on PC as of March 17, 2015
Platform: PC, Mac; Xbox One and PS4 as of June 9, 2015

One Shots: Striding boldly through fields of sunflowers

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With the chill of winter and color leeching out of nature during this month, it's certainly nice to be able to visit warmer seasons...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game

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The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....

Fallout 76 begins player testing for playable ghouls tomorrowday

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Ghoulfriends, your moment is almost here: The playable ghoul patch officially arrives on Fallout 76's PTS tomorrow, December 20th. Now, we've known that the TV-show-inspired...
Riders

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024

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So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
hands across whatever this fantasy world is called

Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

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Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
It's a jumping off point.

Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025

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We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...

The Stream Team: The secret behind Elder Scrolls Online’s When the Ground Shook

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After rescuing the villagers who were trapped behind rubble in Elder Scrolls Online's  Ostumir, Massively OP's MJ found Greenspeaker Sorilen by a tree. Can...

Elder Scrolls Online compensates players for server outages and toasts an in-game play

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It was a frustrating couple of days for the players and the devs of Elder Scrolls Online, as the MMORPG's servers were knocked out...

Elder Scrolls Online’s winter event, the New Life Festival, returns next week

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Count Elder Scrolls Online among the MMORPGs that celebrate a winter holiday without clear references to the real world - no Santa in Tamriel,...

Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio developers just unionized

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Bethsoft has one union, yes. What about *second* union? In fact, this is more like third union, and we're not sorry to see it. Readers...

Elder Scrolls Online could be offline as long as 12 hours today thanks to a datacenter power failure

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Hope you didn't want to play Elder Scrolls Online today: The core servers are having serious issues right now and won't be back anytime...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2

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Justin and Bree discuss Path of Exile 2's early access, Elder Scrolls Online weird event snafu, EverQuest's The Outer Brood, and ArcheAge's second sunset of the year, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the normalization of bad MMO monetization and why some gamers melt down over every bit of MMO news.

Elder Scrolls Online’s 10th anniversary fizzles as ZeniMax cancels its North American meetup

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Hope you weren't planning on attending the big anniversary bash finale for The Elder Scrolls Online because ZeniMax Online Studios just abruptly canceled it. Readers...

Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024

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I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
sippy

End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025

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One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...

Elder Scrolls Online is giving away class style packs for its anniversary – but there’s a catch

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As Elder Scrolls Online pushes into the final month of its year-long 10th anniversary celebration, it has one more promo for players... or at...

The Stream Team: On the Gold Road again in Elder Scrolls Online

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Fate has intervened again, and MJ has arrived in Elder Scrolls Online's West Weald to figure out how to stop the Deadric Prince of Paths (who apparently still doesn't have her memories) from messing up the world. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. to find out in Paths of Chaos.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is best at making you feel as if you truly belong in it?

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I can think of a lot of MMOs that told me in no uncertain terms I didn't belong in them, but not the other way around. Which MMO is best at making you feel as if you truly belong in it - as if it actually wants you there and wants you to feel personally welcomed?

The Stream Team: Heading down Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road

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After plenty of detours, (one even to the new area!), Massively OP's MJ is finally going to stop dodging the story and get going...

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