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[Bernkastel]

Sackbird Studios Takes Flight — Sackbird Studios ™

An Employee-Owned, Self-Funded Game Studio Founded by Veteran Developers of Elder Scrolls Online and the Canceled Project Blackbird

www.sackbirdstudios.com

Project Blackbird, Zenimax Online Studios cancelled MMO from Elder Scrolls Online devs lives on in the new Sackbird Studios.

 

[RoboFu]

No one is going fund a new MMO. but maybe they will do a offline ES clone.. has to be better than Avowed.

 

[Ashamam]

Sackbird... Is that a middle finger to those who sacked them?

 

[Chittagong]

Ballsack?

 

[poppabk]

Sackbird Studios Takes Flight — Sackbird Studios ™

An Employee-Owned, Self-Funded Game Studio Founded by Veteran Developers of Elder Scrolls Online and the Canceled Project Blackbird

www.sackbirdstudios.com

Project Blackbird, Zenimax Online Studios cancelled MMO from Elder Scrolls Online devs lives on in the new Sackbird Studios.

I don't know how they are going to develop this MMO without funding, I hope they get funded by some publisher like Sony. If done properly this could be another Everquest.

Have they said they are developing an MMO? Hopefully they gonna different direction - self funding an MMO sounds like suicide.

 

[Bernkastel]

No one is going fund a new MMO. but maybe they will do a offline ES clone.. has to be better than Avowed.

"multiplayer experiences". They are just continuing there work in Project Blackbird.

 

[Bry0]

Project blackbird, they got sacked. Sackbird.

Genius

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Sackbird. I like it.

No one is going fund a new MMO. but maybe they will do a offline ES clone.. has to be better than Avowed.

Why even compare an "offline ES clone" to Avowed? Totally different games.

 

[Revolutionary]

"multiplayer experiences". They are just continuing there work in Project Blackbird.

Also the amazing MS Paint says "not a MMO"

 

[Minari]

 

[March Climber]

No one is going fund a new MMO. but maybe they will do a offline ES clone.. has to be better than Avowed.

They were going in a different direction than ESO, with Blackbird. Blackbird is a PvE shooter.

Internal gameplay impressions were really good, but I guess we willl see when the footage releases.

To me this is very hopeful news.

 

[Bernkastel]

Also the amazing MS Paint says "not a MMO"

They were going in a different direction than ESO, with Blackbird. Blackbird is a PvE shooter.

Internal gameplay impressions were really good, but I guess we willl see when the footage releases.

To me this is very hopeful news.

ohh its not a MMO. I don't know why I was thinking its a MMO.

News  Post in thread 'Zenimax Online Studios is working on a new IP with a brand new engine'

Mar 11, 2021

36:11 and 38:17

And unlike the others who came later, we were built from the ground up with a specific goal of creating massive online games, the first of which was to be set in the Elder Scrolls world.
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It wasn't always pretty and it definitely wasn't easy, but through it all, his belief in us and the promise of what we could deliver made us who we are today, and that extends to our future titles already in development. Everyone at ZOS is looking forward to being part of the Xbox family.

• Bernkastel

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And unlike the others who came later, we were built from the ground up with a specific goal of creating massive online games, the first of which was to be set in the Elder Scrolls world.

Maybe its a MORPG like PSO and Destiny. They still need funding of a big publisher like Sony.

 

[March Climber]

ohh its not a MMO. I don't know why I was thinking its a MMO.

Maybe its a MORPG like PSO and Destiny.

It was never fully confirmed. The only thing known was that it was a PvE shooter that had positive internal impressions.

So yes, it could be a Warframe or Destiny-like, or it could be something else. Wayfinder proved that it's not that difficult to turn an MMO into a co-op PvE game though.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Will they ever ship a game? Flip a coin

Honestly ESO is one of the blandest gaming experiences Ive ever had

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Good to see that they've got confidence in their vision. Don't seem like a game I'd enjoy, but I still wish them