Matt Firor assures that from Morrowind in 2017 to Gold Road the model of large annual chapter releases has «received incredible success», but from 2025 the development team wants to focus on «different types of content to offer interesting options to all types of players. This is where the seasons come in, which will arrive along with a new launching philosophy. Although 2025 will be «a year of transition from a content point of view», the director of ESO assures that they will continue to launch a large update focused on a new area.
«Throughout 2025 we will begin a transition towards a content model based more on seasons and less on the huge annual updates that were the chapters,» explains Matt Firor. «[…] «Next year there will be updates called seasons that, lasting three or six months, will include a combination of story content, events, shop items, dungeons, and more.»
ZeniMax Online Studios maintains that the seasonal model will free the team from having to comply with a strict annual cycle, allowing content to be released when it is ready throughout the year without having to meet a specific date in June. «In this way, we will be able to focus on offering a greater variety of content, and more distributed,» comments the director of TESO. «The new seasons model will serve this purpose and allow us to release content, updates, fixes and new systems in a more efficient way.» In no case will the development of new missions be abandoned.
In his message Matt Firor also comments that, at the request of the players, they are working on making more experiments and changes. During 2025, new systems marked as «experiments» will be released that may or may not end up making it to the game. On the other hand, ZeniMax Online Studios is also working on improving the experience of new players and those returning after a break of months or years.