>make the best selling RPG in the history of gaming>do nothing and let the franchise lay dormant for 15 years >???>make a shitty live service and a space game for no reason>now half of your staff is getting laid off What the fuck was Todd actually thinking? Why wouldn’t you immediately follow up Fallout 4 with TES 6? Did he really think he was proving a point by making a new IP that isn’t a good fit for the creation engine? You already beat the odds and have two wildly successful and beloved RPG IPs (TES, Fallout), why do you need a third when you could just make the games your fans want?
>>741320230My question is why the fuck didn’t they have Obsidian start work on a fallout game the second Bethesda was bought up my MS.Not saying modern Obsidian would make a great fallout, but even a shitty one would sell better then shit like Outer Worlds and Avowed.
>>741320230Zenimax is/was run by rich sports better's and jews, neither of which have ever actually gave a fuck about videos games and just liked that this little company they owned made them a lot of money every now and then. They never wanted to really reinvest in it beyond one project every half decade or more.Being acquired by Microsoft was a death blow, because every Xbox first-party game is stuck under unbelievable amounts of corporate bureaucratic hell, where every single proposed design feature/philosophy needs to be checked against data collected by engagement analysis professionals (psychopaths), and every written line of dialogue has to undergo review by six different consultation firms (sociopaths). Todd might've thought there was a chance in hell that progress would've been quick on Starfield, it'd be good and sell well, and they'd move on. Instead it wasn't good and didn't sell well (enough for bloodthirsty upper management and shareholders), so now everything's been on hold for years as they "restructure" and "reorganize", "shift priorities", and whatever else you can imagine appears in corporate email speak.
Only people that larp about enjoying video games like skyrim or bethesda for that matter. I can't believe there's people that breathe the same air as me that are content with the dogshit they put out.
>>741320230They made some mmo that fucked over the lore even more and some gacha game that was disbanded a few years ago.
>>741323486It's a shit tier "shared experience" thing that most people are desperate for and only survives as a pc game because it's a modding platform more then it is a good game. When Hammerfall comes out with it's UE5 engine and steep hardware requirements it's going to 100% destroy it's longevity . It's one greatest asset is that it's easy to mod and community bug fixes for their fuckups. Without that I don't see it being very popular beyond being new elderscrolls.
>>741320230>What Went Wrong?They had no design plan for Skyrim. Everyone just winged it and accidentally slapped together one of the best games ever made. Retards dont know they should just make Skyrim II with more content and newer graphics/engine and itd sell just as well, and instead keep trying to rewrite "what gamers want" for the modern audience (woke normie consolefags)
>>741325172They aren’t doing UE5 lol it’s going to be creation engine 2
>>741320230Skyrim has no formula, no gaming loop that makes it good. Your obsession is pure coincidence. So it's impossible to replicate
>>741320230what dont you retards understand about online games making more money? they make an online elder scrolls game
I was playing Oblivion last night and almost forgot Bethesda is still an active company. They might as well have closed like 15 years ago
>>741320230Bethesda is a small team of 200 people, do you expect them to only pump out only one franchise forever when Fallout and Starfield are also humongously successful games?
Not an rpgDebump
I didn't like Starfield but it's pretty dire to expect a company to only make the same two games over and over again.
>>741320230>What Went Wrong?They maxed out the mercantile skill instead of the game development skill.
How does it hold up today compared to the games we got now?
Its my headcanon that they had a functional es6 in development that got completely scrapped after starfield flopped hard, because it would have had the same game design.
>>741320230I can understand wanting to branch out and make a new game. What I can’t understand is not abandoning work on Starfield immediately after Shattered Space. They should’ve just cut their losses and moved the entire studio onto TES6, a game they know will sell well. I doubt anyone actually cares about the new updates they put out and it probably didn’t do anything to boost sales. Now Skyrim 2 won’t be out until 2029, almost 20 years after Skyrim 1.
>>741331585That doesnt make sense because starfield is extremely successful and popular and that isnt how game development works.
>>741332219Starfield is insanely popular like elden ring or baldur's gate 3, why wouldnt they support the game? They purposely designed a whole team just to focus on future Starfield content. They want to keep people playing their games while they work on ES6 and then shift to making content for that when it comes out. Also, the fact that Starfield is one of the best selling games of 2026 shows that they need to put out more content for it, people want more.
>>741320230Why when someone is successful, do the company in charge just drop it all?Is this some Rothchilds binding contract they are all in where if a company makes something super successful they have to abandon that franchise and make absolute shit after? It has to be that theres no other reason, they all fucking do it.
>>741332246>>741332378Go to bed, Todd. You have a long day of bottlenecking progress on TES6 tomorrow.
>>741332470>if you make one successful game you must be chained forever to making that game foreverIs this what you faggots really want?
>>741332378go back to your nosodiumstarfield reddit you tranny lmao are you all still posting the most boring fucking screenshots acting like they're some atmospheric shit lmfao lol
>>741332571Yes. Now go play your shitty "space" game.
Mmmmmmmnope. Sorry, sweaty. Not on the list.
>>741332575lmao you woketard trannies are still seething over starfield's success. What's the matter? still mad that your whole industry is crashing over their wokeflops?
>>741332675Dont bother arguing with leftist troons they just hate starfield because their tranny boycott failed
>>741325172being a modding platform has always been one of Bethesda's selling points, it's not some irrelevant happenstance when discussing these games
>>741332675>>741332780Are (you) both fucking retarded? The post was against trannies you fucking dumb cunts. It was calling you trannies because you love shitty starfield. Holy shit this place is full of absolute dumb fucks.
>>741332785This is especially true since the creation store popped off and Bethesda makes a 30% cut off mods that the community makes. It's free money and the modders get enough money to start their own little dev teams to work on more bethesda mods. The new elder scrolls will just see that happen.
>>741320230They were supposed to make TES6 before Fallout 76.Todd wanted to push out Fallout first though.
>>741332910Okay Jim Sterling, you will never be a real woman.
>>741320230>make the best selling RPG in the history of gamingWrong. Bethesda never released an RPG.
>>741322935They're still milking 76. Eso is probably why there hasn't been an elder scrolls either.
>Election tourist on election tourist violenceLOL
>>741320230they unironically think people actually like their games and not the fact they're so easily moddable
