I LOVE Bethesda. Ever since Arena, I've played every single TES game that has hit, as well as virtually anything eles they dabble into...and Gods do I love me some Fallout...but something about this just really, really worries me. Zenimax has been getting more and more into their business lately, as they see an actual profitable margin within video games in general, and TES Online smells like pure profit sell-out to me. Todd is heading it, which sates my worry somewhat, but I cannot help but feeling this will, infact, be another SWTOR.
IE: Large overhead barks orders of talented company, company reluctangly acquieses and buys cheap non-functional POS game engine to create molded, yet flawed and generally un-fun MMORPG experience.
Then again, lately games in general have made me very jaded about the whole thing.