The Elder Scrolls Online’s next expansion, The Golden Path, is set to launch this summer, with a major reveal made as part of a massive Xbox developer direct session last night. The game also has a 15-month tenth birthday celebration, which seems a bit excessive (we’re really jealous).
Yes, it’s been nearly a decade since Zenimax took a look at World of Warcraft (among other titles), The Elder Scrolls and thought, “Why not us, man?” Although fans of the mainline Elder Scrolls games aren’t too keen on the single-player game, ESO has amassed a sizable base of MMO players over the years, and they’ll be embarking on a new adventure in Cyrodiil this June.
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Said adventure comes in the form of the Golden Path expansion, a cool trailer of which you can check out below. For veteran ESO players, it looks like The Golden Path will serve as a follow-up to last year’s Necrom expansion, while also providing the opportunity to explore some classic locations you may remember from Annihilation, in the form of imperial provinces. The West Weald region and its central city, Skinngler.
There, you’ll “experience the nature of magic itself and create custom skills using the new scribe system, and investigate the return of Iselia, a new Daedric prince never seen before in The Elder Scrolls series.”
So yeah, old school spell/skill crafting and new Daedra, who doesn’t love that? Well, maybe the prince of overly aggressive monetization, since you get a ton of stuff by pre-purchasing the expansion.
Just kidding, your actual job is to “[uncovering} the schemes of her most devoted followers and [protecting} Tamriel from the chaos of unbridled change.” I assume it’s Mehrunes Dagon’s day off or something.
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Gold Road will be available for PC and Mac on June 3rd, followed shortly by its console version on June 18th.
In a deep dive into ESO’s near future with the reveal of the expansion, which now attracts more than 24 million players, MMO director Matt Firor revealed that Zenimax will run for 15 months, spanning 2024 and 2025.
While this does fit with the fact that ESO originally released for PC in 2014, with a console version coming in 2015, it also seems to be a recipe for running out of cake and snacks prematurely and ending up with a bunch of disgruntled guests. .
If you’re the kind of Elder Scrolls fan who likes to follow Todd Howard, you might want to check out the just-released new trailer for the Indiana Jones game, which is very much his new baby.
