Recently, Elder Scrolls Online removed its option for a six-month subscription. It is a change that the MMO developer and worldwide publisher has been very reluctant to talk about publicly, at the present. Since there is no solid jurisdiction regarding its removal, the fans are expecting that the game might be released with a free-to-play format in the near future. Presently, the timing is certainly pissing people off.
Earlier in May, Bethesda software declared that the console versions of the game will currently face a six-month delay. The developers have been silent for a long time. However, they returned this month to say that the official date hasn’t still been decided. All prospective players can expect a lot of news regarding their console versions of the game, during early 2015. With the six-month subscription option being eliminated, the new subscribers will not have the game suddenly change on them, within the six-month window. According to popular reasoning, this is the way it goes.
The timing doesn’t need to be considered so much, but it seems convenient for a particular title in comparison to how Elder Scrolls Online released on PC during in this year. When it came out on the PC, the game was met with many bots and systemic bug issues. Developers and game stat developers are not yet sure as to how it was received and how many are presently playing Elder Scrolls Online. However, popular beliefs suggest that this particular MMO title did not receive much popularity compared to its predecessor. In brief, gamers are not sure whether Elder Scrolls Online is the worthy successor of the legendary single-player RPG like Skyrim.
Earlier, the observers were shocked when Elder Scrolls Online decided to charge a monthly fee for their subscription. This is because doing such a thing has bucked overarching economic trends with many popular worldwide MMOs being shifted from their business model. For example, BioWare’s Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic shifted to free-to-play around two years back, just a year after it was originally released.
We are also aware how World of Warcraft, certainly the leading MMORPG around the world has switched to free-to-play from time to time. Developers kept making FTP changes to it in order to see the response from gamers.
In the meantime, ESO developer ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda have remained surprisingly quiet regarding their decision to remove the six months subs. Players primarily began to talk about it in the official game forums. Finally, the administrator of the French-language forum declared that the 6-month sub was deleted because the developers preferred the 1-3 months options. There is a relevant page on the official website which displays the prices regarding these two subscriptions.