Find adventure and excitement within Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, the Gold Coast, and the Imperial City during the new Guilds & Glory Celebration in-game event.
The Guilds and Glory Celebration begins Thursday, January 18 at 10AM EST, and runs until Tuesday, January 30 at 10AM EST. Throughout the event, as you quest and adventure within Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, the Gold Coast, and the Imperial City, you’ll earn an assortment of bonus goodies including Reward Boxes and Event Tickets.

These bonus rewards include:

• Double reward boxes earned during Daily Quests in Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, the Gold Coast, and Imperial City as well as the Maw of Lorkhaj Weekly Quests
• Double reward boxes earned during Thieves' Guild Heists and Dark Brotherhood Sacraments
• Increased resource node drops
• This does not include fishing holes or crafting materials obtained from animals
• Additional loot from World Bosses in Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, and the Gold Coast as well as Delve Bosses and Public Dungeon Bosses
• Additional loot from Sweepers and Coldharbour Elite Guard inside Imperial City and Imperial Sewers as well as bosses in the Maw of Lorkhaj
• Additional loot from bosses in Maelstrom Arena, Imperial City Prison, and White-Gold Tower dungeons

Return to Wrothgar and other classic DLC zones

To participate in every aspect of this new event, you will need access to the Orsinium DLC, the Thieves Guild DLC, and the Dark Brotherhood DLC. Each is available within the Crown Store or can be accessed via an ESO Plus membership. The Imperial City DLC is free for all and can be claimed from the Crown Store at no cost.
During the Guilds and Glory Celebration, you can earn Glorious Reward Boxes once per day from the first daily quest completed in Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, or the Gold Coast, or by finishing the Maw of Lorkhaj weekly quest. These Reward Boxes may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Saleable treasures
• A style item
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac if the box is dropped in Wrothgar
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch if the box is dropped in Hew’s Bane
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour if the box is dropped in the Gold Coast
• Overland item set
• Companion gear
• A chance for one of the following items
• Crafting recipes (from the zone in which you earn the box)
• Treasure Maps and Survey Reports (from the zone in which you earn the box)
• Motif chapters
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac if the box is dropped in Wrothgar
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch if the box is dropped in Hew’s Bane
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour if the box is dropped in the Gold Coast
• A chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

Earn a host of rewards including a new style

In addition, you can collect more common Regular Reward Boxes by completing consecutive dailies in the event-related zones. These may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• A chance for saleable treasures
• A chance for a style item
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac if the box is dropped in Wrothgar
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch if the box is dropped in Hew’s Bane
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour if the box is dropped in the Gold Coast
• Overland item set
• A chance for Companion gear
• A small chance for one of the following items
• Furnishing recipes (from the zone in which you earn the box)
• Treasure Maps and Survey Reports ( from the zone in which you earn the box)
• Motif chapters
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac if the box is dropped in Wrothgar
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch if the box is dropped in Hew’s Bane
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour if the box is dropped in the Gold Coast.
• A small chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

Pilfer or slay your way to new riches

You may also receive a second Glorious Reward Box once per day by looting the final boss within the Imperial City Prison, White-Gold Tower, and Maelstrom Arena. These Reward Boxes may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Saleable treasures
• A style item
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• Dungeon item set, from Imperial City Prison, White-Gold Tower, or Maelstrom Arena
• Companion gear
• One of the following items
• Furnishing recipes
• Treasure Maps and Survey Reports
• Motif chapters
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• A chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

You can also earn Regular Reward Boxes by looting the final boss of an event-related dungeon subsequent times. These may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• A chance for saleable treasures
• A chance for a style item
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• Dungeon item set, from Imperial City Prison, White-Gold Tower, or Maelstrom Arena
• A chance for Companion gear
• A small chance for one of the following items
• Furnishing recipes
• Treasure Maps and Survey Reports
• Motif chapters
• Ancient Orc, Malacath, or Trinimac
• Outlaw, Thieves' Guild, or Abah’s Watch
• Assassin’s League, Minotaur, Dark Brotherhood, or Order of the Hour
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• A small chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

Battle in the heart of the empire

Lastly, you can collect a third Glorious Reward Box once per day after you complete your first Imperial City daily quest or slay your first Sweeper boss. Additionally, there is a chance to receive a Glorious Reward Box after felling a Coldharbour Elite Guard. These Rewards Boxes may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Tel Var Stones
• Imperial City Key Fragments
• Saleable treasures
• A style item
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• Imperial City item set
• One of the following items
• Furnishing Recipes from Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, or the Gold Coast
• Cyrodiil Treasure Maps
• Motif chapters
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• A chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

Regular Reward Boxes may also be earned by finishing subsequent Imperial City dailies, killing additional Sweeper bosses, and defeating additional Coldharbour Elite Guards. These may contain the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Tel Var Stones
• A chance for Imperial City Key Fragments
• A chance for a saleable treasure
• A chance for a style item
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• Imperial City item set
• A chance for one of the following items
• Furnishing recipes from Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, or the Gold Coast
• Cyrodiil Treasure Maps
• Motif chapters
• Xivkyn, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, or Ebonheart Pact
• A small chance for a Bristleback Hunter outfit style page

Additionally, you can collect further Regular Reward Boxes by participating in the following activities:

• Slaying World Bosses in the Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, or the Gold Coast zones
• Defeating the final boss in Imperial City Prison, White-Gold Tower, or Maelstrom Arena dungeons
• Opening treasure chests
• Opening safeboxes
• Looting objects such as barrels, crates, etc.
• Looting Psijic portals
• Cracking open Thieves Troves
• Harvesting crafting resource nodes

Phew! That’s a TON of ways to earn a host of bonus rewards during this massive new in-game event. Whether you’re stalking your prey on behalf of the Dark Brotherhood, pilfering unsuspecting nobles with your Thieves Guild allies, battling your fellow players in the Imperial City, or delving into the politics and strife of the home of the Orcs, this event has bonus rewards for you!
Of course, we can’t forget about those precious Event Tickets! During the Guilds and Glory Celebration, you will receive two Event Tickets for the first of the following activities completed each day:

• Daily Delve and World Boss quests in Wrothgar
• Daily Delve, World Boss, and Thieves' Guild quests in Hew's Bane
• Daily Delve, World Boss, and Dark Brotherhood quests in the Gold Coast
• Daily Quests in Imperial City
• Weekly Trial Quest for Maw of Lorkhaj
• Killing and looting a Sweeper in Imperial City
• Killing and looting a Coldharbour Elite Guard in Imperial City Sewers
• Killing and looting the final boss of Imperial City Prison and White-Gold Tower
• Killing and looting the final boss of Maelstrom Arena

By the end of the event, you could have earned an impressive 26 Tickets total! But keep in mind, you can only carry 12 Tickets at one time. To help you lighten the load, here’s what the Impresario has in stock during the event:

• All three Molag Ball Illusion Imp pet fragments
• Anchor Chain Fragment
• Dark Anchor Pinion
• Effigy of the Dominator
• The first Planemeld’s Master marking fragment
• Crematory Ash
• Bound style pages for the following:
• Bristleback Hunter outfit style
• Stonefire Scamp Pet
• Soul-Shriven Skin
• Impresario Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations

The Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet

The Guilds and Glory Celebration is your first chance this year to purchase Crematory Ash, the first of three morphing fragments for the Planemeld’s Master markings!

The Planemeld’s Master markings

Additionally, the Impresario’s Assistant, Philius Dormier, will gladly take your precious Event Tickets in exchange for some tantalizing treasures:

• Unstable Morpholith Pet Fragments
• Doomchar Plateau House Fragments

Last but not least, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor is ready to barter away the following goodies:

• Nascent Indrik Feathers
• Dawnwood Indrik Berries
• Spectral Indrik Berries
• Springtide Indrik Pet
• Haunting Indrik Pet

Adventure across Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, the Gold Coast, and the Imperial City and you’ll earn a mountain of bonus rewards during the Guilds and Glory Celebration. Are you ready to find glory, honor, and untold riches during this new in-game event? Share your story with us via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook!

The Guilds and Glory Celebration in-game event begins next Thursday, January 18 at 10AM EST, and continues until Tuesday, January 30 at 10AM EST.

Show your defiance of and/or allegiance to the God of Schemes with this year’s morphing collectible, the Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet!

Molag Bal, Daedric Prince of Brutality and Domination, has long been a menace to Tamriel. This year, throughout ESO’s 2024 in-game events, you can exchange your Event Tickets for a semblance of the Daedric Prince via this year’s morphing collectible, the Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet!

Morphing collectibles can take many forms over the course of a year. If you’re unfamiliar with how they work, you can read more about them in this guide.

Molag Bal Illusion Imp Pet

As has been the case in past years, you’ll need to collect three different fragments to summon this specific collectible:

·        Anchor Chain Fragment

·        Dark Anchor Pinion

·        Effigy of the Dominator

These three fragments will be available for purchase with Event Tickets during each of 2024’s major in-game events. Just visit the Impresario during any of her appearances throughout the year to acquire them. Once you have all three fragments, combine them in your Collections to unlock access to this malevolent mite.

As a morphing collectible, the Molag Bal Illusion Imp can also be combined with other fragments to summon a different collectible event reward each quarter of this year, starting with the Planemeld’s Master Body and Face Markings.

Planemeld’s Master Body and Face Markings

Be sure to be on the lookout for more information on upcoming events and their reward fragments, starting with the Guilds and Glory event later this month. Are you excited to show this simulacrum of Molag Bal just who’s in charge, or will you pledge your fealty to the Lord of Lies before it? Let us know via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

Discover The Elder Scrolls Online’s new adventures, challenges, and lore during the ESO 2024 Global Reveal livestream, hosted on Twitch.

Are you ready to find out all about what 2024 has in store for ESO? The Global Reveal has you covered! Tune in to https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda for The Elder Scrolls Online 2024 Global Reveal on Thursday, January 18 at 4PM EST (immediately following the Xbox Developer_Direct). During the show, we’ll give you a first look at the upcoming Chapter, as well as a glimpse at our plans for the rest of the year. Join us to see a new (yet familiar) region of Tamriel, as well as the continuation of the story that began in last year’s Necrom Chapter.

Watch the show and you’ll also receive the brand-new Pyromancer’s Quandary emote through Twitch Drops. Don’t forget to link your ESO and Twitch accounts before the ESO 2024 Global Reveal goes live so you’re ready!

The Pyromancer’s Quandary emote

We’re crafting something special this year for The Elder Scrolls Online, so be sure to join the #ESOFam in watching the livestream via https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda starting on Thursday, January 18 at 4PM EST.

Are you planning to join us for the big show? Let us know what you hope to see via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook—we’ll see you there!

Start the new year off right by picking up something fun from the Crown Store this January.

Check out the complete list of contents of items coming to the Crown Store in January 2024 below. Don’t forget, you can head over to the Crown Store page right now to view all offers currently available and visit the Buy Crowns page to pick up however many crowns you need. Certain items and offers will only be available for a limited time, so be sure to read their details in the link below and don't miss out.

Get a swift start to the new year with these in-game rewards available simply by logging in to ESO during January 2024.

The new year is coming in hot, and you can expect a variety of exciting rewards each day you log in this January. You can see some examples of what to expect listed below, including a mighty mount, copious stacks of riding lessons, and an abundance of experience scrolls. Just be sure to claim them from the Daily Rewards section of the in-game Crown Store. If you need assistance, you can turn to this help article.

Gnisis Durzog Mount—Day 2

A hardy mount on top of which you can take on the new year.

The breeders of House Redoran have outdone themselves with this fine specimen of durzog. Sort of clever, mostly loyal, and largely unlikely to maul passerby without permission. Truly a marvel of the species! Do try not to leave it unsupervised near a kwama mine, though. We have it on good authority it has an appetite for scribs.

Crown Lessons: Riding Speed ×3—Days 3, 6, and 21

Go off to the races with these boosts to your riding speed!

We’re hitting the ground running—or galloping—with this collection of Riding Lessons to increase your character’s mount speed offered on each of three different days. Hurry along and get started in the new year posthaste.

Crown Lessons: Riding Capacity ×3—Day 4

More space in your saddlebags for whatever the new year brings.

The new year often brings new challenges—and new loot. These Riding Lessons can help you deal with the loot and prevent inventory management from becoming one of the challenges!

Crown Lessons: Riding Stamina ×3—Day 5

Hit the trail, take a hike, do whatever you like as these lessons teach your mount to endure.

As you spur your mount on to explore new sights and scenes across Tamriel, teach it to stay at its best with these Riding Lessons that improve mount stamina.

Grand Gold Coast Experience Scroll ×2—Day 7

Experience all the new year has to offer!

Your mount isn’t the only one who can train up. Earn 150% more experience with these two Grand Gold Coast Experience Scrolls and finish that new year’s resolution to get more Champion points early!

Seals of Endeavor ×250—Day 14

Start life’s new endeavors with some Seals of Endeavor!

And adding to all the previous rewards, we have some 250 Seals of Endeavor you can claim for use on Crown Crate items. Get your supplies off to an early start in 2024 with these Seals! You can also earn Seals from Daily and Weekly Endeavors in-game and use them to buy goods contained in Crown Crates or normally purchased with Crown Gems. Learn more about Seals of Endeavor in this blog.

What are you looking forward to most for the new year in Tamriel? Tell us your plans and what you hope to accomplish with these rewards! Share it with us via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

Enjoy up to 67% off the Necrom Chapter and up to 40% off select Crown Packs during ESO's end-of-year sale.
The 2023 ESO Holiday Sale is now live, allowing you to pick up The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom Chapter at up to 67% off and The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition at up to 70% off. These festive deals are available across all platforms, including Xbox (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S), PlayStation (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5), and PC/Mac (The Elder Scrolls Online Store, Steam, Epic Games Store).

These seasonal savings are available for all versions of the Necrom Chapter (Collection, Deluxe Collection, Upgrade, and Deluxe Upgrade), offering you the opportunity to explore the mushroom forests of the Telvanni Peninsula, navigate through the twisted realm of Apocrypha, and master the power of the new Arcanist class!

To get started, visit our Buy Now page and select your edition.

In addition to savings on the latest Chapter and base game, we’re also providing some major discounts on Crown Packs:

• 21,000 Crowns—Up to 40% off
• 14,000 Crowns—Up to 35% off
• 5,500 Crowns—Up to 30% off
• 3,000 Crowns—Up to 25% off
• 1,500 Crowns—Up to 20% off

Ready to take advantage of these limited-time savings? Head over to the Buy Crowns page to grab your bundle of choice. You can use these crowns to purchase all sorts of practical and cosmetic items from the in-game Crown Store such as pets, costumes, houses, skill lines, XP scrolls, and more. Check out what offers are currently available by visiting the Crown Store page.

Both discounts are available for a limited time and may conclude on different dates depending on your platform and territory. To discover when your platform’s sale ends, check out the schedule below:

Xbox

• Standard Edition—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024
• Necrom—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024

PlayStation America

• Standard Edition—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024
• Necrom—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024

PlayStation Europe

• Standard Edition—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
• Necrom—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024

PlayStation Asia

• Standard Edition—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
• Necrom—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024

Elder Scrolls Online Store

• Standard Edition—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
• Necrom—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024

Steam Store

• Standard Edition—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
• Necrom—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024

Epic Games Store

• Standard Edition—December 13, 2023-January 10, 2024
• Necrom—December 13, 2023-January 10, 2024
• Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024

With these discounts on the Necrom Chapter, base game, and Crown Packs, there's a host of new adventures waiting for you this festive season. Which of these deals are you considering taking advantage of during the 2023 ESO Holiday Sale? Let us know via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.

The Effigy Earrings of Saint Vorys are now available free within the Crown Store until January 2024—don't miss out!

Across Tamriel as well as lands more mundane, this is the season for holiday cheer and gifts. In the spirit of this season, you can now claim the free Effigy Earrings of Saint Vorys adornment from the Featured page of the in-game Crown Store as a gift from us! Once you claim it from the Crown Store, the adornment can be found in your Collections under the Appearance tab.

Claim this free adornment from us!

This stylish adornment is available now until January 4, 2024, at 10 AM EST, so be sure to add it to your collection the next time you visit Tamriel.

These earrings honor the patron saint of House Telvanni, Saint Vorys the Immolant. Whether you plan to wear them to honor the Telvanni ancestors or simply as a fashion statement, we hope you enjoy this holiday gift from us!

Spread holiday cheer while enjoying bonus XP gains and seasonal rewards during this year’s New Life Festival.
The 2023 New Life Festival in-game event begins Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 10AM EST, and continues until Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 10AM EST. During this year’s festivities, you can earn a variety of jolly rewards including New Life Boxes, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more.

Find Breda in Eastmarch to begin

During the New Life Festival, you will automatically enjoy a 100% boost to XP gain whenever you log into the game, with no extra steps required! If you’d like to join the party and toast the passing of another year, complete the New Life Festival’s introductory quest and collect Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento via the following steps:

1. Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest, “The New Life Festival.”

• You can also pick up this quest by speaking with Breda at the New Life Festival tent in Eastmarch.
• You can instantly transport yourself to Breda by using the portal located at any Impresario tent location.

• Complete the introductory quest to receive the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento.
• You won’t need to acquire Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug if you finished the quest during a previous year.
• Enjoy your endless supply of winter spiced mead!
After wrapping up the event’s introductory quest, you’ll unlock 10 special New Life Festival daily quests: nine from Breda and one from Petronius Galenus. The pair will task you to travel across the vastness of Tamriel and share seasonal merriment with its denizens.
Good Deeds, Great Rewards
Whenever you complete one of the 10 daily quests, you’ll be rewarded with a New Life Festival Box. Contained inside these seasonal cases is the chance to receive the following rewards:
• Assortments of alchemy crafting materials
• New Life Festival Toys:
• Sword Swallower Kit
• Juggling Knives
• Fire-Breather’s Torches
• Mudballs
• Wolfsbane Incense
• One of the following:
• A Skinchanger motif page
• New Life Festival Recipes
• New Life Furnishings
• Deep Winter Charity Writs
• Imperial Charity Writs
• A chance for one of the following:
• An Evergreen outfit style page
• NEW A Morningstar Frostwear outfit style page
• If you’ve already earned a Morningstar Frostwear page that day, an Evergreen outfit style page or a Nord Carved armor outfit style page will be given instead
Earn a new armor style
Impresario & Event Tickets
The first New Life Festival daily quest you complete each day rewards three Event Tickets in addition to the reward box. You can earn up to a colossal 60 Event Tickets by the event’s end! Don’t forget that you can only ever hold up to 12 Event Tickets in your inventory at once. During the New Life Festival, the Impresario will update her stock with the following items:
• All three Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments
• All components for this year’s morphing collectibles:
• Passion’s Muse personality
• Meadowbreeze Memories skin
• Passion Dancer Garment costume
• All three Hoardhunter Ursauk mount fragments
• Blessed Honeycomb
• Gilded and Dyed Saddle
• Sorcerous Golden Ink
• Bound style pages for the following:
• NEW Morningstar Frostwear pages
• New Life Festival Grab Bag
• Mud Ball Pouch memento
• Nordic Bather’s Towel costume
• Colovian Fur Hood hat
• Colovian Filigreed Hood hat
• Sword-Swallower’s Blade memento
• Juggler’s Knives memento
• Fire-Breather’s Torches memento
• Snowball Buddy pet
• Powderwhite Coney pet
• Impresario Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations
The New Life Festival is also your last chance to pick up the third fragment needed to construct this year’s final event Morphing Collectible, the Hoardhunter Ursauk mount! The Hoardhunter Ursauk Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase with Event Tickets:
• Nascent Indrik Feathers
• Pure Snow Indrik Berries
• Crimson Indrik Berries
• Frost-Light Indrik Pet
• Rosethorn Indrik Pet
Lastly, the Impresario’s Assistant is offering the following, which you can also acquire with Event Tickets:
• Unstable Morpholith fragments
• Deadlands Flint
• Rune-Etched Striker
• Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• Dagonic Quasigriff fragments
• Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather
• Black Iron Bit
• Bridle Black Iron Stirrups
Tamriel Rings in the New Year
As this year draws to a close, you can send 2023 off in merry style during the New Life Festival and collect some special event rewards as you do. How do you plan to spend the holidays in ESO? Let us know and be sure to share any fun New Life-themed creations with us via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, or Facebook. The New Life Festival in-game event begins this Thursday, December 21 at 10AM EST, and continues until Wednesday, January 9 at 10AM EST.

Matt Firor, ZeniMax Online Studio’s Studio Director, breaks down a special year for The Elder Scrolls Online and discusses its future.


Greetings everyone—it’s time to look back at ESO in 2023 and look forward to 2024.

In 2023, our #1 priority—besides shipping Necrom and Infinite Archive—was to make the service more stable. The hardware refresh of all game servers finished in 2023, and even though we have some more non-player-facing hardware swaps to go, we are all reaping the benefits of more modern and powerful servers powering ESO’s infrastructure. We also have refined our processes to ensure that updates launch with fewer issues, and for the great majority of situations, we achieved that. We did have longer downtimes than usual a few times due to the hardware refresh, but looking back, I’m pretty happy with where things are—especially after our Epic Games Store launch in July, where we saw our highest monthly active user numbers since 2015.

Necrom was our highest-rated Chapter (in some ratings, highest since Summerset), and shows our commitment to amazing storytelling. I’m especially happy with how the Apocrypha zone turned out. Adding to the Elder Scrolls lore on Daedric realms is something we take great pride in, and I think we nailed the combination of obsession with knowledge and creepy visuals that are the hallmark of Hermaeus Mora. And for the first time in a few years, the story will continue in 2024, as the 2023 story (no spoilers here!) ended on a cliffhanger.

And wrapping up 2023, we launched Infinite Archive, adding a challenging, repeatable game mode to ESO. This is a type of content that we want to do more of in the future: really fun, challenging experiences with great rewards that players can enjoy for a long time. ESO is always about great storytelling, so we won’t abandon story quests and content, but we will balance it out with more systems like dungeons, trials, and special new content like Infinite Archive.

Looking forward to 2024, the obvious first thing to note is that April 4, 2024, is ESO’s 10-year anniversary, marking a decade since we launched on PC/Mac. Reaching this milestone with the game in such great shape will be an amazing achievement—and we will celebrate with both in-game and real-life events. You already know about the first two: our 10-Year Anniversary community event in Amsterdam in April and a 10-Year Anniversary-themed ESO Tavern in Germany from July 13-14. Stay tuned for more information about all these events, and I certainly hope to see you in person at one or more of them!

Also, I remind you that April 4, 2024, is the 10-year anniversary of the PC/Mac launch, but many of you didn’t join the community until June 2015, at ESO's massive console launch. As such, we are considering the entirety of April 2024 through July 2025 as our 10-year anniversary period, and we will fill it as much as we can with special events, retrospectives, and lots of other fun stuff to celebrate you, our community, and the ESO dev team. We can’t wait to share all of this with you when we are ready.

Next year will kick off with a Global Reveal show in January, and we are excited to continue the story from last year but in a different part of Tamriel. It's going to be great, and we have some new systems that I think everyone will want to hear about. I'm not going to spoil it now, but you should definitely look out for the Global Reveal announcement and mark your calendars!

Finally, I'd like to take a moment to talk about all of us in the ESO community. Now that we are a year or so past the pandemic, it's good to take stock of where we are and where we want to go.

ESO is in a great place—enjoyed by millions. In fact, almost two million of you joined ESO last year, not counting the players enjoying the game for free from the Epic Games Store. We have been massively successful for many years now, and we are very thankful for all of you who have helped make this happen. As we approach the 10th anniversary of this amazing experience, I would just like everyone to acknowledge the path we've been on and appreciate the hard work we have all done to keep ESO amazing. It takes a village to develop and operate a game like this, and that village absolutely includes everyone reading this right now. Thanks so much for everything you do for ESO.

See you in Tamriel!

Commemorate a decade of The Elder Scrolls Online and our amazing community with a special in-person event that kicks off our massive 10th Anniversary Celebration!

Next year, The Elder Scrolls Online will reach its 10^th anniversary since it first launched on PC/Mac in April 2014. To celebrate this incredible milestone, we’re kicking off a massive 10^th Anniversary Celebration in April.

During the celebration, we’ll look back on ESO’s history and celebrate the game itself, its dedicated group of developers, its passionate, ever-growing community, and its bright future.

Whether you’ve been a member of the #ESOFam since early beta, have recently begun your journey into Tamriel, or are looking for a new epic online roleplaying game—you won’t want to miss this incredible celebration. It all kicks off next year in Amsterdam!

The fun begins next year with the first ESO 10-Year Celebration Event, a two-day in-person event we’re hosting at the SugarFactory just outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Friday, April 5, until Saturday, April 6. You can grab your tickets now by visiting the official signup website below.

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At the event, you can mix and mingle with your fellow ESO adventurers and developers while enjoying two days of fun. This will include developer panels and roundtable discussions (with some livestreamed), hands-on gameplay, food and drink, live music, community activities, and more. In addition, the April 2024 event will host our first-ever in-person ESO cosplay competition, so if you’ve got an amazing ESO costume in mind that you think the community will love and are planning to attend, get crafting!

We'll share more specifics on the event with the community in the future, so keep an eye out on https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/ and our social channels.

We’re planning to make this the biggest in-person community event we’ve ever had, but it’s not the only one we plan to host during this massive anniversary celebration. There’s going to be a ton of special 10^th Anniversary in-person events all over the globe throughout, including a big one in the United States in 2025.

Celebrate ESO’s anniversary with us!

Stay tuned for additional announcements in April 2024 when we unveil more.

Are you excited to celebrate 10 years of adventure in Tamriel’s Second Era with us? Let us know if you’re planning to make your way to the Netherlands for this initial event via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook—we hope to see you there!