The Elder Scrolls: Blades has officially reached the end of its journey. As of June 30, Bethesda has shut down the free-to-play mobile RPG, bringing nearly six years of dungeon crawling to a close. The game had already been removed from digital storefronts in the months leading up to its full shutdown, but existing players have been able to keep playing until the servers went offline. Now, another Elder Scrolls game has disappeared, and fans are no closer to the release of The Elder Scrolls 6 (even if Xbox & Bethesda want to speed up its production).
Bethesda first announced the Elder Scrolls: Blades shutdown back in March, giving players roughly three months' notice to do all they want to do before the game went offline. Given that some video game shutdowns occur with little-to-no warning at all, Bethesda seems to care about respecting players' time and emotional investment in this game. What's more, during this time, the studio also made every item in the in-game store available for just one Gem or one Sigil, making it easier for players to unlock anything they may have missed before the game's final day. It was a small but welcome sendoff...
