The consensus among my Forbes Games colleagues was that developer ZeniMax Online Studios and publisher Bethesda Softworks were going to drop the paywall as soon as they'd wrung as much cash from hardcore Elder Scrolls fans as they could. That's $224.88 to play the standard version of the game for twelve months, and $264.88 for the Imperial Version. There's not many gamers willing to shell that kind of money out -and the few who would are probably already deeply committed to another MMO, like
