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0 pointstormeh5y ago0 comments

> IMO Bethesda decided to sell to MS because their recent games cannot generate enough popularity

Truly mystifying why they'd want to create an MMO. It's as if they hadn't been following the news. The success of WoW is incredibly hard to repeat, and most studios who try fail, no matter how much money they throw at it.

The MMO space has been, WoW aside, a money bonfire for one and a half decade at this point.

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mattmanser5y ago

ESO has been pretty successful, 15 million players:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjagneaux/2020/03/30/elder-...

I'd guess that the article has it wrong and they're mainly on the free tier and that's not the subscriber count though.

Sander_Marechal5y ago

ESO has no free tier. You need to buy the base game.

mattmanser5y ago

I forgot, that's true. But it wasn't a big hit on release, I'd imagine the vast majority of those are bought when it's on sale, like the steam summer sale.

maxsilver5y ago

That, and also, Bethesda already owns the (3rd largest? ish?) MMORPG on the planet, with Elder Scrolls Online.

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mattmanser5y ago

ESO has been pretty successful, 15 million players:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjagneaux/2020/03/30/elder-...

I'd guess that the article has it wrong and they're mainly on the free tier and that's not the subscriber count though.

Sander_Marechal5y ago

ESO has no free tier. You need to buy the base game.

mattmanser5y ago

I forgot, that's true. But it wasn't a big hit on release, I'd imagine the vast majority of those are bought when it's on sale, like the steam summer sale.

maxsilver5y ago

That, and also, Bethesda already owns the (3rd largest? ish?) MMORPG on the planet, with Elder Scrolls Online.

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