It's easy to forget now, but the first Elder Scrolls game had a rough launch back in the day: 'It was a disaster in a lot of ways and somehow built a billion-dollar franchise'
The first Elder Scrolls game, Arena, had a difficult launch in 1994, with low initial sales and store cancellations. Despite these challenges and Bethesda's prior reputation for sports titles, word-of-mouth and player enjoyment helped it eventually build into a billion-dollar franchise.
- Entities
- Company: Electronic Arts
- Topic: Sports Games
- Company: Bethesda
- Person: Christopher Weaver
- Game: The Elder Scrolls: Arena
- Topic: Role-Playing Games
- Game: The Elder Scrolls 6
- Person: Ted Peterson
- Person: Todd Howard
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