April 28, 2015 6:27 PM EDT
It's not a flawed argument when you think in terms of business. I don't know actual numbers, but let's just go with this conservative example. Say Bethesda sold 1 million copies of Skyrim, of that probably half have never played a TES game before Skyrim so that's 500 thousand first timers to the series, of that half didn't go back to play other games in the series so that's 250 thousand that only played Skyrim and a fourth of your target auidence for the next game. At $60 per game that's $15 million in sales lost by not having the Dragonborn in the next game. Those are concervative numbers, I'm sure the actual numbers are far greater which as a business major I can say it would make very little since to not include the Dragonborn in the next game in some sort of capacity. It could just be a simple conversation that mentions the Dragonborn or a full story arc, but there has to be more than a book like Bethesda has done so far.