#Elder scrolls online pc free to play free
Yeah, I know it's a little suspicious that I won my own contest, but I think what's really telling about this is how close we all were: Even the biggest "misses" were only off by 10 weeks in either direction.Īlternately, if you measure our predictions to the date the game actually goes free to play (March 17 for PC, with Xbox and PlayStation to follow in June), not the date the move was announced, then Alex Knapp edges out Erik Kain by a single day -and our collective guess was still only off by 9 weeks, or 63 days. Individually, we were all very close, too. That means our group predicted the announcement would come on Tuesday, January 13.
On average, the six members of the Forbes Games team who contributed to the pool thought that Elder Scrolls Online would throw in the towel after just 284 days, or a little over 9 months from launch.
So I asked them all to answer a question: On what date will Elder Scrolls Online announce it's giving up on its subscription model and going free to pay?Ĭollectively, they nailed it. The consensus among my Forbes Games colleagues was that developer ZeniMax Online Studios and publisher Bethesda Softworks were going to drop the paywall as soon as they'd wrung as much cash from hardcore Elder Scrolls fans as they could.
That's $224.88 to play the standard version of the game for twelve months, and $264.88 for the Imperial Version. There's not many gamers willing to shell that kind of money out -and the few who would are probably already deeply committed to another MMO, like
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