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On 3/17/2012 5:05 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:22:10 -0700, John Slade<hhitman86@pacbell.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/2012 3:46 PM, Rin Stowleigh 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
>>
>>        I hope this is a lie, if not, then say goodbye to a great
>> series. All good things...
>
> A few other sources have reported this and to the best of my
> knowledge, it is fact, not rumor.
>
> However, I'm not sure why everyone is talking like it would be the end
> of the existing single player series.  The article says the entire
> timeline is meant to predate the existing series.

      Star Wars the Old Republic is an example. They moved 
totally to online play and they scrapped plans to make KOTOR 3. 
Since too many game companies want to be the next World of 
Warcraft, they're moving franchises from single player to MMO 
only. Not everyone wants to play RPGs online. They want to play 
a game with a campaign, good gameplay and a good story. Also by 
making games multiplayer, it seems they want to put the burden 
on the user to produce the content rather than making a great AI 
system. Game companies are becoming like everything else in 
America. They want to charge as much as possible and give you as 
little as possible. They want to expend the least amount of 
effort. Thank goodness for some small, independent game makers 
that are putting out old style RPGs.

John