pcoutcast said:
Hey guys, just a quick reminder to not confuse Bethesda Game Studios with Bethesda Softworks. The former are the devs of TES and FO. The latter are the publishers of all the games we see coming from 'Bethesda'. Wolfenstein and Evil Within have NOTHING to do with the development of TES or FO or the mysterious 'new IPs'. Those games are developed by entirely separate studios.
That said. My cynical and jaded self is telling me that Skyrim may be the last Elder Scrolls game we will ever see. The old paid mods disaster and the new paid mods disaster (Creation Club) is, I believe, an attempt to transform Skyrim and Fallout from games into platforms. The idea is to have other studios and the modding community create content that they can charge for ad infinitum.
Think about it. Bethesda has had a love affair with Minecraft since Skyrim was still in development. Well? There's only one Minecraft. They don't need to release a whole new Minecraft 2, they just add content and updates, and mods. A lot of games are like that. Mostly MMOs. That's what they were hoping to achieve with ESO. Now they're trying to do it with Skyrim and Fallout.
Why on earth would they bother to go to all the trouble of making a new game if they, or better yet--other people--can create new bits of content that they can sell for the games they already have? That's why Pete is trying to 'manage expectations'. He knows they're not going to make another TES, at least not unless they can't nail down this 'charging for mods' business model they're so in love with.
I'm sorry to say that Bethesda has made it abundantly clear that they don't care at all about their fans, in fact, I don't think they even enjoy making games anymore. They're only interested in milking as much money out of us as they can for as long as they can.
I can't see this happening. Skyrim has sold over 25 million copies, an impressive number for a game of its genre. TES is literally what Bethesda is most known for by a longshot. Not Doom, not Quake, not even Fallout. That's like Dodge doing away with their Chargers. If this is true, however, I will no longer purchase anything Bethesda related.
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Hey guys, just a quick reminder to not confuse Bethesda Game Studios with Bethesda Softworks. The former are the devs of TES and FO. The latter are the publishers of all the games we see coming from 'Bethesda'. Wolfenstein and Evil Within have NOTHING to do with the development of TES or FO or the mysterious 'new IPs'. Those games are developed by entirely separate studios.
That said. My cynical and jaded self is telling me that Skyrim may be the last Elder Scrolls game we will ever see. The old paid mods disaster and the new paid mods disaster (Creation Club) is, I believe, an attempt to transform Skyrim and Fallout from games into platforms. The idea is to have other studios and the modding community create content that they can charge for ad infinitum.
Think about it. Bethesda has had a love affair with Minecraft since Skyrim was still in development. Well? There's only one Minecraft. They don't need to release a whole new Minecraft 2, they just add content and updates, and mods. A lot of games are like that. Mostly MMOs. That's what they were hoping to achieve with ESO. Now they're trying to do it with Skyrim and Fallout.
Why on earth would they bother to go to all the trouble of making a new game if they, or better yet--other people--can create new bits of content that they can sell for the games they already have? That's why Pete is trying to 'manage expectations'. He knows they're not going to make another TES, at least not unless they can't nail down this 'charging for mods' business model they're so in love with.
I'm sorry to say that Bethesda has made it abundantly clear that they don't care at all about their fans, in fact, I don't think they even enjoy making games anymore. They're only interested in milking as much money out of us as they can for as long as they can.
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I can't see this happening. Skyrim has sold over 25 million copies, an impressive number for a game of its genre. TES is literally what Bethesda is most known for by a longshot. Not Doom, not Quake, not even Fallout. That's like Dodge doing away with their Chargers. If this is true, however, I will no longer purchase anything Bethesda related.
