
It highlights the importance of managing expectations and the dangers of over-promising and under-delivering. The saga of The Elder Scrolls VI serves as a cautionary tale in the world of gaming. This incident has left a sour taste in the mouths of many, further tarnishing the image of the game’s development process. However, ZeniMax won the dispute, leading to the author having to rename his book series. An author had a best-selling book series named Redfall on sale long before ZeniMax, the parent company of Bethesda, filed a Redfall trademark. Trademark Troubles The Elder Scrolls VIĪdding to the controversy surrounding Elder Scrolls VI is a legal dispute over the name Redfall.

Why the hell would they announce it way back when then?Ĭan’t wait to play this in the retirement home along with GTA 6 /JSFvg4jHArĪlong with the hype, it is also evident that the fans hate the idea of waiting for five years for the game. Yea if a game takes 20 years to make its doing too much Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.‘The Elder Scrolls VI’ is still over 5 years from releasing 🎮 Expect more announcements during E3 2021 as the Summer of Gaming continues. In the meantime you can catch up on all of our The Elder Scrolls 6 coverage so far. Right now Bethesda seems focused on Starfield, which was confirmed for a November 2022 release date. We still know extremely little about The Elder Scrolls 6.

It will feature vampires, which are certainly present in the Elder Scrolls universe, but these vampires are the result of a lab accident.

We now know that Redfall will be a co-op open world shooter from Arkane Studios. Nevertheless, the name has continued to rattle around in Elder Scrolls coverage. It didn't make a ton of sense given that most Elder Scrolls games are named for locations, and Redfall has never actually appeared in TES lore, but fans are hungry for any tiny bit of information.īethesda writer Michael Kirkbride confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 wouldn't be called Redfall in a 2019 AMA. The filing sparked speculation that The Elder Scrolls 6 would be named Redfall, a term that first appeared in the Redguard adventure game in 1998.
