Key things
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends ends on January 30, 2025, and there will be no offline play after that date.
- Faced with stiff competition, the game failed to find a large audience and saw a decline in player numbers over time.
- Bethesda has not made an official statement, but the game's closure was confirmed when players welcomed the shutdown news.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends has confirmed that it will shut down on January 30, 2025, taking players away from playing the digital card game for good. While The Elder Scrolls: Legends has already been removed from Steam, players who have the game on PC and mobile can play the game until this date.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends was first released back in 2017, when it faced a lot of competition in the digital card game genre. Other titles such as Hearthstone to have something like a tourniquet on the genre and The Elder Scrolls: Legends largely failed to find an audience despite its association with Bethesda's wildly popular RPG franchise. The game's Steam population peaked at nearly 9,000 players in 2017, though that has declined rapidly. By 2020, the number of players on Steam had dropped into the hundreds and never recovered, partly due to The Elder Scrolls: Legends it was suspended at the end of 2019. It has no updates since then.
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Although Bethesda has yet to release any statement on its social media channels or website, as reported by PCGamesN, players are launching The Elder Scrolls: Legends they are now greeted with a message confirming the game's imminent closure. “The Elder Scrolls Legends servers will be permanently shut down on January 30, 2025,” confirms the report, which also reveals that “all store items and in-game event entries will be available for one gold, so you can enjoy all the content Legends has to offer .” As the final nail in the coffin, after this date “the game will be inaccessible” so it is not playable offline. It's a shame that the game never lived up to its potential to become one of the most popular card games on the market.
unfortunately, The Elder Scrolls: Legends it's also already been removed from Steam, meaning it won't be able to bring in any new players as it nears closure. Although the game's remaining audience was small, it existed. It's certainly a shame for those who continue to play the game that they won't be able to access it in any offline capacity. These days games with live services shut down after just a year, so that's a good thing though The Elder Scrolls: Legends at least seven years online, the game is sure to become part of the ongoing conversation about preserving these kinds of titles.
While The Elder Scrolls: Legends maybe he's leaving, the franchise as a whole is growing and entering a whole new era. WITH Star field is out now, Bethesda is working on the development The Elder Scrolls 6although a release date for the long-awaited title has yet to be confirmed. Earlier this year, developer Bethesda accidentally hinted The Elder Scrolls 6environment that was the first real hint to players of where the upcoming title would take place. It's an exciting time to be a fan of the franchise.