That was quite surprising and I also have mixed feelings about it. In regards to the content and making of the games I think it will be pretty much the same as it would be before microsoft bought them with a few differences though. That being said I expect every game coming out from them to be heavily catered towards console even more so than before. Take Skyrim for example and its UI that is not a proper UI for PC inventory/magic menu etc in the future we might see more elements in the game that work better for console compared to PC  (see Dark Souls controls for PC). Also some major "streamlining" (one of my most hated words..) and bad writing is something I expect and if we compare Skyrim's storylines to the previous ES games like Morrowind and Oblivion I don't think that the quality of writing is anywhere close to them (see College of Winterhold questline for example) due to the age of targeted audience will be much lower than it was before. Now let's head to the important part, Modding. I strongly believe that they will implement creation clubs mumbo-jumbo, live services and all that since the release of the games and there will be a huge amount of micro-transactions for the games. In regards to free modding not sure if it will a positive or negative impact but in general I 'm always expecting the worst possible so that's that. In general it's still too early to tell how it will go but I 'm certainly expecting for modding to be affected some way or the other because the potential of $ they could gain from mods is too big to pass up for them, seeing some sort of modpocalypse 2.0 in the future wouldn't be that surprising and I 'm expecting them to put their hand in the modding community some way or the other. There is another thing though and that is the budget for the games might become bigger but with bigger budget there will be bigger expectations for income and that is not always good since some bad decisions could be made, who knows. This post was edited by Duvain at September 25, 2020 5:35 AM EDT

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Sorry for the late replies but the last two weeks had been very hard on my available free time even to mke a few comments... @Medieval - Oh yes I can certainly see the charm of a merchant/diplomatic/guild master type of class. I also choose the merchant type of class in my characters but mostly as a secondary skillset - sub-class type. That being said when it comes to mmorpgs in the past I often ended up being leader or guilds or big parties so I always ended up managing sales and recruitment which is a great part of a game and fun in its own way. Agree on the warrior-tank type they have that tthing of personality going on for them and damn right they can be abussive in rpgs and mmorpgs (especially in PvP). Necromancer - Well that is also one of my favorite classes it is an intimidating class as you way and it is pretty damn fun to play have minions do your bidding and rain dark magic on your enemies, fun times! :D   @BlueDremora - Damn right! Being a wizard type of person myself I always found these types of eccentric wizards the most interesting ones not only in games but also in fiction books, movies etc. It is one thing going in with a sword and another raining down magic "things" on your enemies. :P