The Elder Scrolls Online In Retrospect By Creative Director Rich Lambert
As the year comes to a close, The Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert pens a letter to the community looking back on the past year. 2019 marks the game’s fifth anniversary and the first time that the online fantasy MMORPG combined multiple releases into a year-long narrative called the Season of the Dragon. 2019 is also the year that Lambert got his first tattoo as part of the Elsweyr announcement stream back in January.
“As it was our five-year anniversary, we wanted 2019 to be big and memorable. It featured a massive year-long adventure that focused on the homeland of the Khajiit, Dragons, and the new Necromancer class. This was the first time we’d combined all of the year’s releases (Wrathstone, Elsweyr, Scalebreaker, and Dragonhold) into a single, continuous narrative, and we’re thrilled with all of the positive reactions to it.”
Lambert continues to outline the challenges they faced including performance issues that still need to be resolved. “The performance roadmap we shared in July this year was a good step toward showing how committed we are to improving things,” he says. “We’ll continue to focus on performance in the coming year and will keep the roadmap updated monthly to ensure you are all in the loop.”
He concludes the letter with a heartfelt thanks to the community and a promise of exciting things to come in 2020, starting with the “Dark Heart of Skyrim” Chapter announcement stream in Las Vegas on January 16th. The stream will be the first information drop since the upcoming chapters was first teased during this year’s The Game Awards.
Watch Chris Lambert get his first tattoo in the video below.
