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 Elder Scrolls Online launches the Dark Brotherhood DLC today
Rejoice, players of The Elder Scrolls Online, for today you can join in an elite confederation of ducks! Whether you feel that you're a...
The MOP Up: The future of skins in Paragon (May 29, 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...
Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘personalities’ are a roleplayer’s dream
Roleplayers, today's Elder Scrolls Online blog post is going to make you super happy. ZeniMax is teasing a new feature called Personalities, the first...
Massively Overthinking: The stories inside MMORPGs
This week's topic comes to us from one of our dear Patrons, Roger.
"I love stories, and some games tell great stories. MMOs have trouble...
Choose My Adventure: Revenge of the CMA
Hello, friends, and welcome to the long-overdue return of Choose My Adventure. I don’t have a lot to say in the way of preamble,...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s getting extra character slots and expanded crafting inventories
ZeniMax has a shortish dev piece out today running down the chief cash shop and sub changes coming when The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood...
Tamriel Infinium vs. Hyperspace Beacon: Elder Scrolls Online and SWTOR as storytelling giants
I think it’s all but obvious that Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic are enriched with lore. The Star Wars universe,...
The MOP Up: Mark Hamill’s new tour of duty (May 22, 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...
One Shots: Post-murder spree bliss
When all of the enemy mobs lie defeated at your feet and you've rifled through their corpses for any valuables, there's this precious slice...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor on game population, not going F2P, and defining MMOs
ZeniMax Online’s Matt Firor told players back in April that the console versions of The Elder Scrolls Online had "opened the game up to...
Elder Scrolls Legends explains prophecy card mechanic
Can Bethesda crack open the Magic: The Gathering market with its own upcoming digital card game? Many game studios have tried, to varying degrees...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC buffs up the group finder
Are you into grouping in The Elder Scrolls Online? Good news for you: ZeniMax says today in a new dev blog that it's focused...
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s mobile prospects (May 15, 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...
Examining the skills and missions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC
So let's say you're planning on joining the Dark Brotherhood once The Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC launches. How, exactly, do you plan on...
How Elder Scrolls Online converts veteran ranks to champion points
ZeniMax has just posted a deep-dive into the veteran rank system obliteration coming with The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood DLC. "The goal for...
The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 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...
One Shots: Slipping between shadows
I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...
Massively Overthinking: The sandbox MMORPG disconnect
This week's Massively Overthinking was inspired by a reader who decided to go by Sandboxless in Seattle when he penned this note of frustration to us.
I...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
One Shots: Guild meeting
Guilds... assemble! Because there's nothing like logging into a vast virtual world and then plunking your virtual butt down in a room, am I...