Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff
The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda’s product ownership has been revoked. They didn’t even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked
Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What, like how Obsidian made a better Fallout 3 than Fallout 3 with New Vegas?
buran@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Yeah, the difference being Fallout 3 was well received and the studio had some pedigree. While Fallout 76 and Starfield were actively disliked.
BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I’m not sure what happened with 76 since I lost interest upon finding out it was multiplayer, but it’s really well received now when looking at Steam reviews
buran@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Yeah, the game is in a better place now. The problem being they shouldn’t have released as it was.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It got a lot better. Then they changed the seasons and it started getting worse. Around the time they added becoming a ghoul for player characters it was more or less necessary to have their subscription service if you didn’t want to deal with a lot of arbitrary bullshit that was designed to force you to buy the subscription. You basically couldn’t get all the season rewards without it. All that aside it was surprisingly fun and adds a lot of good lore. You can play it more or less like a single player game and when I still played old timer high level characters would often drop gear and resources for new players, it was the most genuinely pleasant online community I’ve ever experienced.
shani66@ani.social 6 days ago
The steam reviews aren’t accurate. The review timeline of steam shows suspiciously low negative reviews during release, a disastrous release with game breaking bugs and a strong backlash against the horrible monetization systems, to say nothing of the shitstorm that bethesda caused outside of the game itself. Iirc that was also a point in time that steam made a big deal out of hiding negative reviews for corpos under the guise of fighting review bombing.
Also it’s still at 50 on metacritic.