Would you consider TESO canon?

I think TESO could be considered canon, seeing as how the storyline is set a thousand years before traditional TES games. Even the books in other Elder Scrolls games only vaguely talk about the timeline of TESO, so why not? The devs could and did go crazy on the storyline.

 

Even if I don't care much for the game itself, I see little problem with adding this game to the canon. Hell, The Warp in the West did a good job at giving the timeline the middle finger with having all the endings to Daggerfall somehow happen at the same time. I'm just waiting until they make the next game where I can kick the Dominion's backside and become Empress.

 

I don't see any reason why the game shouldn't be considered canon. I think Bethesda gives careful consideration to this kind of thing no matter what project their working on, so I'm sure they had canon in mind when they were developing the missions, storylines and such.

 

Yes, it is a canon because I searched a lot and I got that they work closely with each other and especially with Bethesda to ensure that all lore in ESO is historically accurate and appropriate.
Thus according to me it's a canon.

 

I don't think it counts, as none of the workers from the other games of the series actually worked on this one. It's basically just a game to stall the hunger of fans waiting for Elder Scrolls 6. So they made this online game that is bare-bones what the Elder Scrolls series represented. I don't know why, maybe to stall to complete the game more? But one thing is clear, ESO is nowhere NEAR good enough to be considered the next sequel after Skyrim.

 

I think that was the entire point of why they picked that point in time to have TESO, because they, the devs, would not have to spend a ton of time going back and forth with the lore historians to double-check the accuracy of every little story detail. Pick a point in time where nothing has really been described, and you just need to worry about some big overarching events that are coming and make sure nothing in the game breaks those events.

SWTOR was the opposite, even though the used a point in time not completely explored in stories, there was so much overlap that the quest writers were constantly wasting time verifying stuff with the IP.

 

Yes. Close enough for me. Even though we don't decide what is canon as players. I know some of us are big know it all geeks that forget that sometimes. At any rate, it was set in a time period without a bunch of prior history to check against.

 

It is amazing to me how personal some people take lore, that many times is obviously created on the spot without any real thought. I post regularly on a forum about GoT, mainly from a tv show perspective, but there are a few posters there who are so outrageously protective of every word of the books that they rant and rage, even when the author himself goes against them.

 

Yes, I think it is, based from my observation.

 

It's relatively close but seems the same to me too

 

Yes, I think it's just a matter of perception.

 

Of course ESO is canon. I think the only reason people might argue otherwise is because of the pre-launch.

 

I think ESO was overhyped and after it's underwhelming release a small part of community which expected it to be something unreal just got disappointed. I believe it's still a good game nevertheless and I continue to play it.

 

ESO is canon. Considering how crazy the storyline of this game. How they set the game thousand of years, its amazing and amusing. I like it historical.

 

Yup I totally agree.
You can even make anime or movie based on ESO story

 

I consider Eso to be one of the best written lore. I would actually put it up there with Morrowind.

 

Whoever wrote Morrowind deserves an award or something. That is an amazing storyline.

 

Eso is canon, whoever says otherwise is out of their damn mind!