Bethesda Softworks has announced it's developing an Elder Scrolls MMO for PC and Mac.

Set a millennium before the events of Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online sees the daedric prince Molag Bal attempting to pull all of Tamriel into his demonic realm.

“It will be extremely rewarding finally to unveil what we have been developing the last several years,” said Game Director Matt Firor, whose credits include Dark Age of Camelot.

 

If there was ever a case of releasing an undercooked title to a hugely demanding, motivated and canonically literate audience, look no further than Age of Conan.

Once briefly touted as a World of Warcraft competitor, Funcom's sword-and-sorcery MMO burst on to the scene back in 2008, promising much more than the buggy, underdeveloped experience that actually eventuated.

Despite a herculean effort to tidy up code and actually offer the kind of experience fans were clamouring for, the damage had been done. This wouldn't have come as any surprise to the Norwegian developer; Anarchy Online, its other major online title suffered from similar teething problems way back in 2001.