Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But making games costs money. Corporations are supposed to make money for their shareholders, not spend it!

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    someone should have told them that before Starfield.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Starfield almost certainly made a boatload of money.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yes, and so would elderscrolls. I was going along with the joke.

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Starfield was made because they’re afraid of fucking up their cash cows by ruining their legacy. They’ll just port Skyrim to the PS7 and it’ll sell.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here’s my uninspired lame advise that will never happen: ZeniMax should close down Bethesda. Then they should contract the Crimson Dessert guys and hire a good writer to make the next Elder Scrolls game. Sure it‘s more expensive than doing it in house and it would take years but I think it‘s what players would want.

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    nobody wants that they want skyrim again with a new story and world. why did fallout 4 get mixed reactions? not skyrim enough. why did starfield get mixed reactions? not skyrim enough.

    and the people who dont want skyrim again just want morrowind again

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I genuinely don‘t think Elder Scrolls fans would actually want just another Skyrim. They‘ve had over a dozen releases of that already. The devs definitely have to be better.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Warhorse is working on a Lord of the Rings game. That’s probably more of what we want out of a new Elder Scrolls than the actual next Elder Scrolls.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have to say that Kingdom Come Deliverance wasn‘t for me. Too realistic. Too tedious. That‘s probably what makes it great for the fans but I do not think Elder Scrolls fans want inconvenience just because it‘s realistic. They‘re not the same fan base.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Somehow I’ll bet they ditch realism for a Lord of the Rings game, particularly on default difficulty, and keep the very clear Elder Scrolls trappings that inspired their systems design.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is Skyrim really the last one???

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  • formergijoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess the Elder Scrolls Online technically counts as an Elder Scrolls post Skyrim

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That wasn’t even made by Bethesda, though.

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