Bethesda v. Interplay: We're totally not working on an MMO

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Duck And Cover reports that Bethesda has filed for the statements to be redacted to protect Zenimax's investment into the MMO.

Zenimax opened up an MMO division, headed by Matt Firor (Dark Age of Camelot), which is currently working on an unannounced game. At least officially, since Bethesda let slips some information about the online game in the courtroom, which they now want to rectify by filing for statement redaction.

Apparently, there are "tens of tens of millions of dollars" and "close to a hundred people"working on a "secret" "World Of Warcraft" type MMO, in production since 2007 after the team was put together in late 2006. According to Bethesda's testimony, the timetable for an MMO is four years, so this might mean such a game will ship in 2010-11

All of the above comes from King of Creation's mysterious informant.

Link: Bethesda files for redactions to hide MMO info

EDIT: the usually fairly reliable VG247 cites unnamed sources as confirming that this game is the The Elder Scrolls MMO, which should surprise no one, and that it apparently missed a 2009 announcement date, which is more surprising.<blockquote>It’s Elder Scrolls, we’re very reliably informed, and it was supposed to be revealed last year.

The game has been talked about behind the scenes for at least a year, we’re assured, and must be “very close to reveal by now”.</blockquote>
 
One thing we know for sure is that its unique selling point will be graphics and the possibility to touch and move many things in the game world.
 
I'm not really sure what's the point of redacting the testimony now, given that the full transcripts are available to be read at the court, while this redaction is even more publicly available through PACR. Hell, thanks to this filing and us posting it at DAC and The Vault, the competitors will know sooner instead of later.
 
Re: Bethesda v. Interplay: We're totally not working on an M

Of course it's the TES MMO.

Tagaziel said:
All of the above comes from King of Creation's mysterious informant.
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Are we still pretending the informant is mysterious? Just checking.
 
iirc there's been official word on a multiplayer Oblivion/TES game. so yeah, most likely that's it.

I hope it ends up a typical Beth game, then finally they might crash and burn. the mmo crowd are no pushovers.
 
They're not?! I thought age of conan was a success with it's non-nude nudeness and desperate graphics and 50GB of required HDD space...

God, what a bore that game must be!
 
We've intercepted this hyper encrypted communique from the Bowels of the Beast:

This is SPARTATHESDA:

We've got this Val Kilmer style TOP SECRET
"eyes only" trade secret that's a "seacret" to everyone outside of our MMOG only 2nd facility.

We can't let anybody know that we are actually working on making "gaemes" which is very proprietary information and besides,

damn it those fallout fevered Court PACR'in cohagens, they blew our cover, Damn them all to the Garbage dump outside of Jerusalem called Ghehenam.(code name for what later became hell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo5Pvp17fp8

We're going to have to redact the court computer from this reality using Cyberdyne systems time travel technology, thereby creating an alternate reality where we did not blow our own cover via our zealous lawyering and you us/you/4D units/Word up + dog have no memory of what has happened at all.

We also have another above top secret admission to keep under wraps: It takes a bunch of 4 dimensional air breathing units to make MMOG's and we've sequestered a bunch of them in dark rooms until they get us an MMOG.


By the way, don't you dare say anything about this publicly available information since if you did, it would create the buzz we intended to create for it without spending any ad dollars?

We know that gamer "joenalist" people like an easter egg bunny surprise hunt so we've given it to them on a sep "silver" blatter.

It's called an MMOG for short.


To SPARTATHESDIANS it really means:

Media
Manipulation
Of
Gamers.

Goebbels level bethboss out.

End communique.....
 
Morbus said:
They're not?! I thought age of conan was a success with it's non-nude nudeness and desperate graphics and 50GB of required HDD space...

God, what a bore that game must be!
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actually, age of conan was no success.
 
aenemic said:
Morbus said:
They're not?! I thought age of conan was a success with it's non-nude nudeness and desperate graphics and 50GB of required HDD space...

God, what a bore that game must be!
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actually, age of conan was no success.
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it was obvious sarcasm.

also, TES games suck. granted, i've only played morrowind and oblivion, but man those games are terrible. the best thing that happened to me after playing them was that i installed wizardry 8 and had fun playing a game. MMOs suck as well, i've yet to see an mmo that i didn't think was complete and utter garbage. the combination of the these two is destined to be a flaming pile of shit. i'm still trying to figure out why this is news...
 
Daggerfall is fun enough. Although only for dungeon crawling aficionados.
 
This had better be the Bethesda's WET MMO, a highly-stylized third person shooter that seamlessly blends gun play, sword kills and over-the-top acrobatics to create the ultimate interactive action experience
 
Are they really this dense? In requesting for these 'super secret' statements to be redacted, they've now attracted the attention of every game news site on the internet.
 
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