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As long as they're still making money selling ES:O expansions, why devote the resources for an all-new game?
They are two different markets. You can also buy the next elder scrolls have while paying for ESO.
One is a single player game, the other is an mmo with that mmo feel.
I'm not quite sure what your point is, but they aren't "two different markets".
Sure, one is a (mostly) subscription model, but at the end of the day, they're both digital Elder Scrolls games sold by the same publisher.
Prior to ESO, though, Elder Scrolls was a franchise entirely marketed at people who wanted single player RPG experiences.
Even if it’s still Elder Scrolls content- a good portion of that original market is not going to have interest in a multiplayer experience. Or a subscription experience. Or a”live narrative” experience with gated content windows.
It’s a very different experience at its core, so while there may be an overlap between the two markets in the Venn Diagram, it’s still a very different market segment than a pure single player outing.