Elder Scrolls Online Now Open for Beta Sign-Ups & Promises a Single-Server, Socially Networked World

Click here to register for the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online as a beta tester, which is an MMO to the groundbreaking franchise that we sure love here at New World Notes. (See below.) I was a touch skeptical when the world was first announced last May, but Gamasutra offers some niblets of new info that suggest some interesting innovations:

Bethesda says that its Megaserver technology will allow players to join a single connected world with a built-in social network, meaning that you can keep up to date with everything that your friends are doing in-game.

I love the idea of an in-world social network and a single-sharded, unified world, both of which exist now in Second Life (and no other MMO, unless I miss my guess), but in SL's case, built on old architecture that's been difficult to scale. It'll be interesting to see if Bethesda can deliver on this "Megaserver" technology.

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[Arcadia Codesmith]

It looks like "Megaserver" is just another name for dynamic sharding. There are quite a few MMOs that already do this. It has its plusses and minuses. It handles highly variable populations well, but it detracts from the feeling of a persistant world -- there are no permanent servers to personalize with player structures or other additions.