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Harvey Randall

The Elder Scrolls Online dev says the Metaverse is sinking because it ignored 20 years of games doing the exact same thing: 'it's not new, and they should stop treating it like it's new'

The Elder Scrolls Online: Shadow Over Morrowind.

When the Metaverse's sales pitch did the rounds in 2022 and 2023, anyone who has been playing MMOs like The Elder Scrolls Online likely had the same thought: "Hold on, I can already do this in a game that lets me have legs."

It's not exactly been panning out, either. Meta has lost billions trying to make a virtual world you can live in, buy property in, and customise an avatar in, that sort of thing. You know, everything that the MMORPG has been providing for players for years. 

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