Bethesda says it will make 'considerably more noise' in 2013

@Neomaniac15

Skyrim is a pretty old game now and had plenty of DLC and patching support already. I'm not ruling it out, but I highly doubt more patches will be released once TESO is released. It would mean losing players from TESO that are going back to playing Skyrim again - and that means they won't renew there subscription during this time.

Since both these companies are own by a parent company, it is this parent company that gets the profit from the frnachise and then allocates budgets for future titles within that franchise. they will try to minimalise the loss of money as much as possible, and that will probably mean no more DLC (to distract buyers from paying subscription fees for TESO).

As far as patches go, the game is fairly old now. And Bethesda should be working on their next game. Paying people to work on patches for Skyrim, when they couild be helping out with the next game is only good if the previous game (Skyrim) is still earning them money. And once TESO comes out, and the Skyrim DLCs stopped (most likely), there's no more money in Skyrim.

And that's all the Parent companies decision to make. they are the guys calling the shots as to where their resources are being spent. This is why they allocate budgets and funding - and they can pull that funding for Skyrim at any time they see fit. Bethesda with have to #dealwithit.

@Scorpion1813 And as far as this MMO is concerned I just don't see it lasting long, saturated market or not

@Scorpion1813 Edit: DOES NOT happen here

@Scorpion1813 @Neomaniac15 I'm talking about ceasing support for Skyrim or any of Bethesda's IPs. Like I said, the company that's working on TESO has nothing to do with TES and visa versa. We've seen a scenario like this before, where World of Warcraft spelled doom for the Warcraft series with Blizzard diverting all of it's resources to the MMO. I think ZeniMax Media is making an attempt to ensure that that happens here. Obviously we won't see another TES for at least another two years if not three, they've got a Fallout on the way, for starters.

@TheThoughtless1

Chicken burger! :P

@Scorpion1813 @Neomaniac15 Also the market will be semi-burnt out on TES for a while; It doesn't matter how much you love burgers, every now and then you just need some chicken.

@Neomaniac15

That doesn't change anything. Their parent company won't allow them to release 2 seperate games from the same franchise so close together. It's business 101. They would be competing with each other for sales, and that would mean they would lose sales from those who WOULD have bought both had they not been released such a short time apart.

@Neomaniac15 @Scorpion1813 @Davhut I still don't think there's any chance that their next game will be in the Elder Scrolls series. It'll either be new IP or the next Fallout game.

@TheThoughtless1

I'm not really missing out if I'm not interested. If that was the case everyone would be missing out on everything they aren't able to experience, no matter how good or bad it is.

I prefer sticking with the orignally intended experience - and like I said, I may get mods that would enhance that experience, but not ones that change it.

Each to their own. I understand that people like mods that completely change the game experience and those that break immersion (ex: Halo armour). I'm not stopping them from doing that. I don't want to be forced to play it though.

@Scorpion1813 @SirNormanislost Man, you're missing out, If you've got the ram to run them, mods are awesome. I like the DLC too, but mods just bring so much more to the table.