The Elder Scrolls Online Tops 25 Million Players - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 October 2024 / 2,716 Views

Publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer ZeniMax Online Studios have updated the official website for The Elder Scrolls Online to reveal the game has surpassed 25 million players.

"Join over 25 million adventurers within the award-winning RPG set in the Elder Scrolls universe," reads the website. "Go anywhere, do anything, and play your way with no subscription required."

The Elder Scrolls Online released for PC in April 2014, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2015, and for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in June 2021.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

9 Comments

HopeMillsHorror (on 24 October 2024)

I'll never understand how Zenimax was hurting for money and needed to sell lol

Slownenberg (on 24 October 2024)

literally didn't even realize there was an online elder scrolls haha

Koragg (on 23 October 2024)

It has also brought in over $2 billion according to the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511z0n9gr5o

I was not aware of how big the game is, daily playercount on Steam is only around 15k. Must be a lot of people on console.

G2ThaUNiT Koragg (on 23 October 2024)

Idk, the game has spent 509 weeks in Steam's top 100 best selling games lol. The game still has an optional monthly subscription service and mtx/expansions, so just because player count doesn't peak insanely high, we don't know how much money those players are spending.

Koragg G2ThaUNiT (on 23 October 2024)

Good point!

Chazore Koragg (on 23 October 2024)

They also have their own counts via their standalone client and then there's the two console versions on top of that.

ESO is basically up there with the other two MMO's; WoW and FF XIV.

The fact they are still releasing expansions and adding to the general lore shows the game is still going strong.

Also I moved from their standalone client and moved my version over to Steam.

Esparadrapo (on 23 October 2024)

I highly doubt those are active accounts and being included in Game Pass there's no way to know how many users gave it a try and that account is going to be added to that figure forever after.

All this deceitful advertising is getting out of hand and websites echoing them without any scrutiny aren't any better.

G2ThaUNiT Esparadrapo (on 23 October 2024)

How do you go from personal speculation to running it as fact? lol

Either way, advertising just in concept is deceitful. The whole point of advertising is to persuade you to buy into something by any means necessary. There is no such thing as honest advertising. If it makes you feel any better, it's publicly known the game has made over $2 billion in revenue over the past decade, which is no small figure.