The creators of The Elder Scrolls Online would already be working on a new IP.
The possibility has been rumored for some time that Zenimax Onlinecreators of the critically acclaimed The Elder Scrolls Online, is working on a new mmo that it would soon see the light and, although there is still no official announcement in this regard, new indications could have shed some light on the matter. At least, that’s what they seem to indicate. new job offers from this Bethesda team.
According to the vacant positions of Zenimax Online, we can come to think that the team is working on a new and ambitious project outside of the long-lived The Elder Scrolls Online. It would be a new Cross platform third person RPGunlike single-player games published by Bethesda since its purchase by Microsoft.
Bethesda is preparing a new open world MMO RPG
According to these job offers that we have been able to learn about through Gamesual, Zenimax Online is looking for a new main producer to join the “development of our next AAA game“. For this, a profile with “a lot of experience” familiar with “teams of level design, storytelling, cinematics, encounters, world building, and quests/quests“.
The second vacancy is for gameplay engineer specializing in combatwhere it is mentioned that the game would be cross-platform (PlayStation, Xbox and PC) and open world. This candidate must be familiar with third-person combat systems and role-playing games, as well as “comfortable with a development program based on playtesting and focused on iteration and polishing“, to avoid repeating the Redfall case as much as possible.
Finally, being a Bethesda RPG, it requires a narrative designer to shape the “compelling characters, stories, and locations in the game environment” with “compelling dialogue for the characters.” Also mentioned is “quest text, lore and history” along with “Full backstories for the world, its locations, and its inhabitants“, so this new open world AAA MMORPG from Zenimax Online promises to have an important narrative section.
(Gamesual) ZeniMax New MMO IP is a third-person Multi-Platform Open-World Action RPG
An MMO built-in Unreal Engine
“Experience developing for multiple platforms (Windows, Xbox, PlayStation).”
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At the moment there is no clue about when could it be announced This or other Bethesda projects, since Microsoft’s event next week is an Xbox Games Showcase, does not have the “& Bethesda” tagline, like last year. Of Bethesda we only know that Starfield will have its own Direct once the main event is over.