The Elder Scrolls is best known for role-playing games in open and dark fantasy worlds like inand. But did you know that there is also an online card game for the franchise? It bears the name, reminiscent of titles likeand until recently could be downloaded for free via Steam.
What is calledcould
?The developers have announced that the online servers will be shut down in a few months. As a result, sales were also stopped. However, there is also positive news for everyone who already owns the game.
The clock is ticking
As announced via an in-game message, the servers of The Elder Scrolls: Legendsshut down forever on January 30, 2025. Since there is an online requirement, the title is then unplayable. Plus, from now on you can only download it if you already own it. It has now been removed from the shops, creating a new onepurchase
is no longer possible.
On Redditthe community is sad. According to many users, The Elder Scrolls: Legends was never a masterpiece, but it was still exciting.This is what one user writes:
I remember playing it for a few months during the first expansion. It was really fun.
Also the users on SteamThe card game was recently able to convince in terms of quality. It received an impressive 89 percent positive ratings in recent reviews there. Overall it is 74 percent. OnlyThings looked bad in terms of player numbers. Last year the 400-player mark was at best, which probably led to the shutdown.
From now on you have access to everything
Although the servers will be shut down, you will get paid in return for the last few monthsFor the first time, access to all previously published content. In the previously mentioned in-game message, the developers write:
From now until January 30, 2025, all items in the shop and access to in-game events will be available for 1 gold each, so you can enjoy all the content Legends has to offer.
This means that the entire content of The Elder Scrolls: Legends can be unlocked so cheaply that it is available almost free of charge. So before it's over forever in February 2025, you can really let it rip again.
The last content update for the genre rival Gwent was also released in September 2023. In contrast to The Elder Scrolls: Legends, you can still play The Witcher spin-off from CD Projekt Red. There's just no new content anymore. In addition, according to a statement from 2022, it should be ensured that you can use the game for a long time.