The online card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends will be shut down in a few months. But you can try out everything the title has to offer in the last few days.
The Elder Scrolls is best known for role-playing games in open and dark fantasy worlds like Skyrim and Oblivion. But did you know that the franchise also includes an online card game? It’s called Legends, is reminiscent of titles like Hearthstone, and could be downloaded for free via Steam until recently.
What does could
mean?The developers have announced that the online servers will be shut down in a few months. As a result, distribution has also been discontinued. However, there is also positive news for those who already own the game.
The clock is ticking
As announced by an in-game message, the servers of The Elder Scrolls: Legends will be shut down forever on January 30, 2025. Since there is an online requirement, the title will be unplayable after that. Furthermore, from now on you can only download it if you already own it. It has since been removed from the shops, which means that a new purchase
is no longer possible.
On RedditThe community is saddened by the news. Although The Elder Scrolls: Legends was never a masterpiece, according to many users, it still managed to inspire.This is what one user writes:
I remember playing it for a few months during the first expansion. It was really fun.
Even the users on Steam were recently impressed by the quality of the card game. It received an impressive 89 percent positive ratings in recent reviews. Overall, it is still 74 percent. Only did poorly in terms of player numbers Last year, it only managed to scrape the 400-player mark at best, which probably led to the shutdown.
From now on, you’ll have access to everything
Although the servers are being shut down, you will get access to all content released so far in the last few months In the previously mentioned in-game message, the developers write about this:
From now until January 30, 2025, all items in the store and access to in-game events will be available for 1 gold each, so you can enjoy all the content that Legends has to offer.
This means that all of The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ content is so cheap to unlock that it’s almost free. So before it’s gone forever in February 2025, you can party like it’s 1999.
The last content update for genre rival Gwent came out in September 2023. In contrast to The Elder Scrolls: Legends, you can continue to play the The Witcher spin-off from CD Projekt Red. It’s just that there won’t be any new content. In addition, according to a statement from 2022, they want to make sure that you can use the game for a long time to come.