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Re: "Skyrim" successor to be multiplayer?

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From: John Lewis
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:58
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:02:29 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:52:12 GMT, john.dsl@frontier.com (John Lewis)
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:27 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
>><rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Might be good stuff if they find a way to keep what's good about
>>>existing Elder Scrolls games separate about what makes WoW and similar
>>>games so tiresome.
>>>
>>>http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html
>>
>>
>>The last great single-player developer succumbing to the mediocre
>>moronic muppet-minded money-mopping MMO malaise.
>
>Well if you look at it from the game vendors standpoint, it solves the
>problem of some consumers waiting for years to buy the game in the
>five dollar bargain bin, long after the vendor went out of business
>for lack of profit.
>

Methinks that certainly does NOT apply to Bethsoft. They do not need
to bother creating a MMO. Hopefully, all of their current staff are
off developing the next installment of Elder Scrolls or Fallout and
that they employ contract-hacks on the MMO.

John Lewis

>And I still think if done right, it could be fun.
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Subject: Re: "Skyrim" successor to be multiplayer?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:58:05 GMT
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