Official Site:Â The Elder Scrolls Online
Studio:Â ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks
Launch Date:Â April 4, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Buy-to-play on PC as of March 17, 2015
Platform: PC, Mac; Xbox One and PS4Â as of June 9, 2015
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The MOP Up: Dota 2 goes on a new journey (December 18, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Massively OP’s guide to the 2016 MMORPG winter holidays
It's time to get all snuggly in front of a crackling fire, roast up some chestnuts, down a gallon of hot chocolate, and log...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...
Elder Scrolls’ Todd Howard to be inducted in video game hall of fame
Bethesda Lead Designer Todd Howard is slated to be the next inductee in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hall of fame for...
Global Chat: Knights of the Eternal Throne debate
With the arrival of SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne, the MMO blogosphere lit up in lively discussion about the expansion, its story, and...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Improved MMORPG of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Improved MMORPG of 2016, which was awarded to WildStar last year.
All MMOs, regardless of release date,...
The Daily Grind: Do you find MMO non-human racial choices lacking?
Every time I start a new MMO, I make a vow to myself not to pick a standard human as my racial choice. Nine...
Elder Scrolls Online’s winter festival begins Thursday
The Elder Scrolls Online, the MMORPG once infamous for eschewing holidays, is following up its inaugural autumn bash with a winter party called the New...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 95: Rising from the ashes
Justin and Bree discuss end-of-the-year coverage, ArcheAge, Ashes of Creation, Elder Scrolls Online, CCP, Cold Iron, The Secret World, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on MMOs we wish we liked and the New World's timeline.
Choose My Adventure: On the wrong side of the law in The Elder Scrolls Online
The Thieves' Guild might have a somewhat generic name for what it's doing, but I find it makes far more sense in any world...
The MOP Up: The worst Overwatch players ever (December 11, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2016
About a year and a half ago, my colleague, co-worker, and friend to man and beast alike Justin compiled a list of the healthiest...
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors
Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...
Choose My Adventure: Assassinating randoms in The Elder Scrolls Online
It's weird how attitudes towards death vary depending on the video game and the structure set up. In Saints Row the Third, a friend...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online juggles making money and making content with Crown Crates
I think it's fair to say that the $15 subscription model just isn't cutting it for MMORPGs anymore. I understand that. The $15 pricetag...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 94: Play this expansion, meatbag!
Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR KOTET, Elder Scrolls Online lockboxes, GW2, Black Desert, Daybreak, and Crowfall, with a mailbag question on the Nostalrius WoW emulator.
Interview: Everything we know about Elder Scrolls Online’s player housing
The Elder Scrolls Online plans to release its next big update in February 2017. No solid date has been revealed, but we do have a name...
Elder Scrolls teases big weekend sale with fresh One Tamriel trailer
Bethsoft released a brand-new trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online last night at The Game Awards, this one talking up One Tamriel's launch and...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...