And those are 15 hours of content a piece. "When I talk about new content, I mean, we're launching with the Mages Guild and the Fighters Guild questlines, but we're going to launch the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood at some point as part of the regular updates. We're working on post-launch content right now, and we want to make sure we're covering all of the new content, which will hopefully be released every month or six weeks, for as long as people want to play the game. We picked the one that we felt matches with us the best." The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt FirorĮxplaining the latter point, Firor said: "The other reason is we really want a steady forecastable revenue stream so we can do constant updates. "Everyone needs to make their own decisions. I'll never run into a pay gate and I'll be in the world." I don't have to worry about paying one more cent. So, if I pay for a month at a time, I have 100 per cent of the game. "We wanted to do monetisation outside of the game. "It's like, I go into a dungeon, if I don't have access to the dungeon it pops up a window: you don't have access to this, go buy 50 credits. "We don't want players to hit monetisation fees when they're in the world. "When you're in an Elder Scrolls game, you're in a world," he said, explaining the former point. The decision was made for two reasons, Firor said: to ensure monetisation would fit appropriately within the established Elder Scrolls experience, and to fund post-release content.
"I play those games all the time," he said. Zenimax raised eyebrows this week when it announced that it will charge £8.99 / $14.99 a month to play TESO when it launches in the spring of 2014 - that's across PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.īefore explaining the decision, Firor insisted: "this isn't a referendum on free-to-play."
The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor has explained to Eurogamer why Zenimax Online Studios has decided to charge a monthly subscription for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game at a time when most observers consider the business model outdated. The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor.
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