Will The Elder Scrolls Online Require A Subscription Fee?

I see it the same way as Jason, it’s the wrong move, but they are going for the subs, OVER.

UNDER

For two reasons:
The TESO team seems to be quite advanced for my taste. Not only that they will release with a Mac OS X client (hurraahhh and good bye boot camp and I know WoW has that too but still, not many games out there that do OS X) but also they seem to introduce a GW2 way of gaming. Maybe already advanced?
Advanced to me these days is FTP with microtransactions that are not ptw.

My Guess Over, Sub based and then go to Free-to-play like all of them

OVER…From the way they’ve introduced the game, they do seem to think they can coast on the success of their IP and deserve a subscription. However, like Jason, I wish they’d go F2P, or what would seem like a good fit for them, a GW2-style buy-to-play.

On the one hand, much of the online world is becoming f2p. We’ve for LoL, D3, Dust514, Dota2, and GW2 just to name a few. So there’s a trend there that TESO could grab. However, I agree with Fony here. Zinemax knows that the TES fanbase is far to big to atleast TRY to capatilize on a sub-model…

I say over. Sub-model, with cash shop for when they inevitably go f2p 8 months after release.

I say under.  I think as we sit here that they are planing a sub fee, but I feel that by the time it launches, the lessons will be learned.  I think MMOs are over saturating the brand and the dinosaurs bound for extinction will continue the sub fee model.  Someone at Zenimax will probably see that. Whether the big bosses can be persuaded is the big question.

over. but you know what i would love to see? a sub based model below the $15 dollar price point. because of how the market is structured right now, if i could pay 7.99 a month instead of 14.99, i would still be supporting the developer and paying for new content, and be playing a fully featured mmo with no restrictions and feel like i was doing it on the cheap

Over, this is an Elder Scrolls game, there’s no way in hell they’ll NOT go for a sub fee no matter how terrible the game looks  or how badly receive it’s been.

And it will be F2P in 6 months tops if not before they reach the 6 months mark.

over…then under a couple months later. lol

Over.

How is it crazy what Guild Wars does? It’s B2P…it’s pretty much just smack dab in the middle between P2P and F2P.

Under. If they go with sub fees, its going to go the way of SWTOR. Huge influx of players the first few months, then it will plummet. If GW2 is hugely succesful (and it very likely will be), TESO won’t stand a chance with sub fees. 

> If you think TESO will require a subscription, answer
> OVER in a comment below. If you think TESO will be
> free-to-play, answer UNDER in a comment below.

Why can’t we just say “Subscription” and “F2P”…? Is this going to be counted by some automated script that can only recognize the words “over” and “under” ?

Reminds me of those PUGs where the RL says “if you’re a healer say 1, if you’re a tank say 2″. Isn’t it much easier to distinguish the words “Healer” from “Tank” than the characters “1″ from “2″…?

 In chat windows, single digit numbers stand out amongst a wall of text. So what’s your thoughts Old Ben, over or under?

I’m in agreeance with Mike B, saying over.

I would say Neutral for B2P lol.
They need to recoup some money back and 
they still need  alot of people for the 3 factions PVP.
So B2P seems to be the best mode of payment for TESO.

under

both,  mircro and sub =)

Over.
Though I agree with Jason, they should make it f2p, but it’s most likely going to be sub based.

Over. They will most likely launch with a sub, then flounder and drop it.

Draw.
the market will be quite saturated with ftp mmos soon enough.
they’ll sell the box, and the Major new content around the holidays.
imho

Familiar topic akaMikeB!

Over. It will be subbed based but I don’t think they are looking at Skyrim’s popularity and seeing WoW type numbers for their MMO and seeing massive dollar signs as MikeB does. An important thing to note here is that Zenimax is VERY Vocal about the MMO being PC only (see their FAQ) . They can’t possibly be basing projections for the number of subs off of Skyrim’s popularity since only about 14% of Skyrim’s sales were PC. XBOX 360 and PS3 accounted for 86% of Skyrim sales…that’s a HUGE percentage of the Elder Scrolls fan base that just got disqualified from the MMO….Unless Zenimax assumes they can convert the majority of their console players to PC simply based off of IP…which (in my opinion) is a foolhardy assumption to make.

So I say it SHOULD be free to Play but I see B2P or Sub model actually being used, hence “Over”
-Magicman

OVER

Interesting that we don’t see more titles come out with only a sub fee and no box price. I’m not going to invest in another MMO with a sub, but if I were it’d be nice to play a few months equaling a box price instead of that on top of a box price.

Do people really think they will go over? Also after LOTRO and SWTOR failed with a big name in the title? Bigger than TES?
There is a reason that they have alot of money. They know how to make money.

Draw

Thinking OVER.

Hoping for UNDER.

first OVER
then, seeing that nobody likes that
UNDER

We have yet to see a MMO from Zenimax/Bethesda and have no idea what they’re planning. As far as i know TESO has only been worked on for the past ()2 years (exuse me if im wrong) and Bethesda/Zenimax likes to put in quality work. For example, the time between Morrowind and Oblivion was about 2-3 years and we saw HUGE changes. Same with Oblivion to Skyrim with 4-5 years (because Fallout 3 became Bethesda’s new hit. (New Vegas was made by Obsidian… ug)) nonetheless there was a huge change with Oblivion to Skyrim. Since this will be an MMO there will be many more bugs/glitches. It is quite possible that this could be the release of swtor all over again, so imma say OVER then UNDER unless they can work ot those famous Bethesda “fall-through-the-floor” glitches