10. Official PR Confirmation Of Its Existence
The easiest point, and the most obvious; confirmation that it's definitely coming, and has actually been worked on for the last now-seven years. Bethesda are in a pretty unique position as a very powerful developer the world will actively wait on to see what they've got cooking in their assumedly gargantuan coding ovens, but let's be honest, it feels like even they are stretching the limits of goodwill when it comes to something official coming out. Every time an press conference, awards show or something the size of E3 or TGS happens, every fan gets whipped up into a stupor thinking the last-minute reveal trailer is going to be Fallout 4, and every time it's something like another Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed. It's about time Bethesda made some official comment on the matter and definitively stymied expectations by saying what's actually coming (if it is) and when fans can expect to see it.