Bethesda Responds to The Elder Scrolls Online Feedback

With fans and sites like Kotaku giving a mixed response to what we’ve seen from The Elder Scrolls Online so far, with the main critique seeming to be that it is too generic, Bethesda VP of marketing Pete Hines provides some thoughts in response, to Eurogamer.

“From the very beginning when it was first conceived we knew the reaction would be mixed,” Hines said. “It’s not all that different than what we went though with Fallout 3, which is, you’re taking this thing that everybody knew and loved like this. Now in that case it was same genre, different developer, different approach. This is an RPG, but MMO is a different in how things work.”

Hines expects sceptical fans will come around as more of the game is revealed. He compared TESO’s development and campaign as a “marathon”, and revealed plans to allow more and more people to play more of the game over time.

“There’s always that issue of meeting expectations or what people had in their mind’s eye,” he said. “It’s really early. We’ve only shown the barest glimpse of it here. We’ve got an awful lot of stuff to talk about that’s new for the genre and new for MMOs, things people haven’t tried before, that are doing things in a different way.