14 DAY TRIAL // Lots of Elder Scrolls fans don't even know where the franchise has started and how it became a successfully RPG series that now has millions of adepts.
Bethesda currently owns the rights of all Elder Scrolls games, but has done nothing to improve them and allow them to be played on modern computers.
Since the release of the first Elder Scrolls games back in 1994, the franchise has gathered lots of fans, but Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was the most important of all the previous titles in the series.
In fact, Morrowind was the game that saved Bethesda from disappearing even though the company was part of ZeniMax Media when work on the title started.
Morrowind sold no less than 4 million copies in its first three years and many more to this day. The latest game in the series, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold even more, no less than 20 million copies as of June 2013.
We are pretty confident that if Bethesda decides to haul all the Elder Scrolls games before Morrowind, it will gain a lot more fans and, perhaps, even more money.
Still, the following is mostly aimed at fans who would like to experience the old Elder Scrolls games that can hardly be played on modern computers, as well as newcomers to the franchise who would like to know how this all started.
It looks that this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Elder Scrolls franchise, given the fact that the first title in the series was released back in 1994.
Such an important milestone needs the right kind of celebration and one fan in particular has already decided what all Elder Scrolls fans would want to mark this anniversary.
It appears that there's a petition going on at Change.org for the free release of the first four games in the franchise: The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire and The Elder Scrolls: Redguard.
The petition asks Bethesda in a nice way to launch these games for free, on Steam and the Elder Scrolls website, as well as releasing the source code, in case it still exists.
The release of the source code might be just important as offering these games for free, as Behesda may not have to work on overhauling the design of the older Elders Scrolls titles, as the work can be voluntarily be done by the TES Community.
If you think this would a worthy enough gift for all Elder Scrolls fans you are invited to sign the following petition:
“I feel that (as to mark the 20th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls) you should attempt to freely release the CD-ROM versions of the first four games in the TES Franchise (Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire & Redguard) both on Steam and the Elder Scrolls Website, as well as releasing the Source Code (if they still exist) for them so that they can be ported and/or expanded upon by the experienced TES Community.”
Obviously, the petition may not have any positive results, but at least this way Bethesda will know what its fans would really want in order to mark this impressive achievement.
