On April 4, 2024, The Elder Scrolls Online will celebrate its 10th anniversary. First released on PC in 2014, the project reached the Xbox One and Playstation 4 game consoles a year later, and was updated to Xbox Series X in 2021 | S and Playstation 5. All this time, the developers are actively filling the game with content and spending huge resources on it. It looks like the project is doing well in terms of payback.
According to data presented by The Elder Scrolls Online game director Matt Firor at GDC 2024, players have spent over $2 billion in the 10 years since the launch of the project. The developers have managed to release 7 major add-ons in 10 years (Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, Greymoor , Blackwood, High Isle and Necrom) and 23 DLC sets, in total the game received 42 updates.
Matt Firor did not specify how player spending is distributed across The Elder Scrolls Online products. It is unknown how many copies of the game were sold, how many major expansions were purchased, or how much was spent on subscriptions, microtransactions, or DLC packs.
In his presentation, Matt Firor notes that the developers released The Elder Scrolls Online on 7 platforms, but at the moment it is only available on 6, since Google Stadia has ceased to exist.
As a reminder, The Elder Scrolls Online is available on Game Pass. At the beginning of this year, the developers reported that in total there were already more than 24 million users in the game.