The Elder Scrolls Online officially surpasses 22 million players

While fans have been waiting for a new single player Elder Scrolls game since 2011, the series’ MMO entry – The Elder Scrolls Online – has been trucking along since 2014, seeing consistent support and updates from the team at Zenimax Online Studios. This has helped the MMO carve a pretty large niche for itself, amassing more than 22 million players.

As reported by Wccftech, since the announcement that The Elder Scrolls Online had hit 20 million players back in January of 2022, the game has gone on to continue growing – now sitting at an impressive 22 million players.

For context, ESO hit 10 million players back in November 2017; three and a half years after it had launched. The figures have steadily increased since then, with ESO seeing between 1-2 million additional players each year – no doubt aided by the 6 expansions released so far (with more on the way).

The full list of milestone can be seen here:

• November 2017: 10M
• June 2018: 11M
• June 2019: 13.5M
• January 2020: 15M
• March 2021: 18M
• October 2021: 19M
• January 2022: 20M
• July 2022: 21M
• April 2023: 22M

Unlike most MMOs, ESO doesn’t require a monthly subscription to access, although as mentioned the game does release paid expansions. Still, it is tough to compare ESO to other MMOs which require a paid monthly subscription on top of paid expansions. That said, with 22 million players it is safe to assume The Elder Scrolls Online is doing just fine.

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