With Elsweyr, fans of The Elder Scrolls Online can expect a new story packed with plenty of additional quests in an interesting game area. This should definitely interest single-player fans coming from Skyrim.
Zenimax Online values that single-player players feel comfortable in the MMORPG. Therefore, it is possible to master the story of The Elder Scrolls and the narrative addons entirely on your own.
Even the newly announced ESO addon Elsweyr is increasingly leaning towards this solo direction.
Skyrim fans should become ESO fans
What does Zenimax want to achieve? The epic story, the many quests, and the fact that at least the story content of ESO can be played solo shows that ESO wants to attract single-player fans.
However, it is evident from the group content of the game that this target audience should also be excited about the MMO part.
Therefore, Zenimax aims to offer players an experience that they know from Skyrim, but then encourage them to stay longer in ESO and play in groups through MMO elements.
How does Elsweyr fit in? The Elsweyr addon brings a lot of new quests and content for single players. For example, dragons can be defeated during the story together with NPCs. Other players are not necessarily required.
This makes the story around the dragons interesting for Skyrim fans.
However, as world bosses, the dragon-like creatures also appear. Here, you can only defeat the beasts in a group.
This illustrates the path that Zenimax is taking with ESO
- The interest of single-player fans is sparked by the story elements that can be mastered alone
- the group content deepens the game but adds even more fun.
Dragons make the difference
Here’s why dragons could attract Skyrim fans: As a Skyrim and ESO player, I can relate to this step. It was incredibly fun to hunt dragons in TES 5 Skyrim.
These dragons were not previously present in ESO. Now, with Elsweyr, I have the opportunity to experience this game principle from Skyrim in the MMO – and in several ways.
- I can hunt dragons solo (with NPCs) in the story
- I join other players to defeat the creatures as world bosses
A new kind of dragon hunting: Especially for Skyrim fans, it is all the more interesting to combat the dragons. Because the dragon shouts known from Skyrim, which were used for hunting there, are not present. This means different tactics are needed.
Zenimax has already stated that it will be much harder to defeat a dragon in ESO than it is in Skyrim.
In a group, it becomes particularly interesting to take down the bosses. That is exactly what makes it very appealing to Skyrim fans. Fighting dragons in a different way. And this might lead them to stay with ESO as an MMORPG rather than just seeing it as a single-player alternative.
Therefore, the choice of dragons was indeed well thought out and clever by Zenimax.
Is Elsweyr a bridge to the release of TES 6? One cannot help but notice that The Elder Scrolls Online, especially with Elsweyr, strongly targets the single-player fans of the series. And more and more of them find a new home in the MMORPG. After all, it will still be a few years until The Elder Scrolls 6 is released as the next single-player installment.
When TES 6 eventually launches, an interesting question may arise: With an increasingly strong focus of ESO on single-player content, how will the MMORPG and TES 6 coexist?
In the near future, however, The Elder Scrolls Online will be the main focus.
