Bethesda Defends $15 Subscription Fee For The Elder Scrolls Online

The Elder Scrolls Online

The Elders Scrolls Online is easily one of the most hyped games of the year, especially in the MMORPG genre. As with most big releases, of course there has to be some controversy, this is in the form of the $15 subscription fee per month.

While Sony has agreed to waive the PlayStation Plus fee on PlayStation 4, Microsoft has not done so with Xbox Live Gold, so that means a double payment is required on that system, which is kind of hard when the monthly fee for The Elder Scrolls Online is $15.

Bethesda’s vice president of PR, Pete Hines, spoke with Gamespot and defended this rather than a free-to-play model.

We feel pretty strongly about the support we’re going to have for the game and what you’re going to get for those dollars. We’re also very confident in our ability to support it with content.

It is a massive, ‘Go where you want, do what you want’ game that we think offers the kind of experience that’s worthy of a subscription. We want to do the version that we think is the best game and the coolest experience. And that means putting a lot of people and a lot of content creators towards having stuff that comes our regularly; every four weeks, five weeks, six weeks.

He goes further to say that going to a free-to-play model would have lessened The Elder Scrolls Online as a whole.

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