Players of The Elder Scrolls Online have to make a lot of adjustments, because the MMORPG will no longer receive any major new chapters in the future as before.
ZeniMax Online Studios has now officially confirmed that with the new year 2025 there will no longer be any major new chapters for The Elder Scrolls Online, as you have been used to so far. Since 2017, starting with Morrowind, major new content chapters have been published year after year in the summer until Gold Road was released - and now it's over.
Accordingly, the development team will publish content for the long-running MMORPG in a new way in the future; There will no longer be large chapters in every June in the future. Instead, a season-based model should be used, as you already know from many other live service games.
With the change, ZeniMax wants to make smaller content available more frequently throughout the year in order to keep gamers engaged. At the same time, you don't always have to necessarily meet the June deadline for a big chapter update - a circumstance that was obviously not always easy.
In this context, studio director Matt Firor emphasizes that despite the end of the major chapters, there will still be “a lot of story content” for the MMO. In the future, we must and want to concentrate more on different types of content in order to do justice to all ESO players.
In a post on the Elder Scrolls Online site, the game's studio director, Matt Firor, broke down the chapter changes coming to ESO in 2025. Further details on the exact implementation will only be announced in the future. But one thing is certain: in 2025 there will be seasons that will last three or six months and offer a mix of story content, events, store items, dungeons and more.
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