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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by mattmanser on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:22AM (#24544472)
ESO has been pretty successful, 15 million players:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjagneaux/2020/03/30/elder-...

I'd guess that the article has it wrong and they're mainly on the free tier and that's not the subscriber count though.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by Sander_Marechal on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:28AM (#24552558)
ESO has no free tier. You need to buy the base game.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by mattmanser on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:45AM (#24553776)
I forgot, that's true. But it wasn't a big hit on release, I'd imagine the vast majority of those are bought when it's on sale, like the steam summer sale.
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