>>4014079
Just trimming the fat

What games? They haven't released any games that anyone has cared about for almost 15 years.

Starfield wasn't a higher quality game because it had hundreds more people working on it.

>>4014079
>Are you worried about the quality of Bethesda's games after the Microsoft layoffs?
No.
>Will TES 6, Fallout 5, and Starfield 2 still be good?
No.

>>4014079
No I was "worried" before. They haven't made something of their quality since Morrowind. Fallout 3, NV, and 4 aren't even fallout games they just wear the corpse as a skin.
This is a good thing. Let them die. ES6 is not coming. Fallout 5 is not coming.

Let's hope they got rid of the pink haired fat women and diversity hires. But they probably fired the only men that had left.

>>4014079
They have not been good for 15 years, they will not be good for the next 15

>>4014104
>Let's hope they got rid of the pink haired fat women and diversity hires. But they probably fired the only men that had left.
It's obvious they fired white men to replace them with jeets. Microsoft is an Indian company.

>>4014118
Oh yeah the new jeet in charge is currently dismantling the company.

>>4014079
great, hope they all die

>>4014079
>quality
>Bethesda
>games
>Bethesda

>>4014079
What Microsoft said makes sense, xbox live services are getting destroyed, probably by steam. Once people grow out of their babby consoles, they move on to the superior gaming platform (and for a variety of other reasons).
Bethesda and id lost some shit, but desu, they havent made good games in over a decade. Quake Champions and Starfield were embarrassing flops, and Bethesda has had a long history of being dogshit anyway, and were practically carried by degenerate modders and gooners. Funny enough, I actually enjoyed 76 when everyone else didn't, precisely for the reasons everyone else hated it; no stupid as fuck bethshit story and dialogue. Bugs? Whatever. Daggerfall was worse and I lived through that just fine.
Anyway, makes more sense to me that they're just trimming all the shit from those companies. Those companies will have to do better with less, and thats a strong motivator.

>>4014224
And I always forget id made more Doom games. I look at that garbage and it makes me laugh, then I forget they exist.

>>4014104
In any case, what they're replacing them with is going to be somehow worse

>>4014079
I don't expect quality from Bethesda under any circumstances.

>>4014104
Seems they fired a bunch of women and other bluesky type people

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>>4014079
It's kinda of unfair how a bunch of talent artists and programmers are getting fired, while this guy doesn't even get as much as a demotion.

>>4014079
>Are you worried about the quality of Bethesda's games after the Microsoft layoffs?
if anything, im expecting either more of the same, or a slight improvement
i know it sucks when all ur frens get fired, but they simply werent doing a very gud job

>>4014079
No, I was worried once I saw Starfield
> Will TES 6, Fallout 5, and Starfield 2 still be good?
They have so much feedback on what their games should have or how to make them, if they choose to ignore it it's entirely on them.

>>4014224
daggerfalls main quest/story is literally the only bethesda game, ever, thats not generic hero story schlock

>>4014079
I don't see how they will ever top Skyrim.

>>4014404
I was worried before, but now I think it's pretty much a guaranteed disaster.

>>4014079
I haven't been excited for a single Bethesda release since Fallout 4.

>>4014079
So, the useless people making dumb decisions are still there?

>>4014640
Todd had to choose between Kurt Kuhlman and Emil and choose the later. They are never going to ge rid of him.

>>4014404
Skyrim was terrible.

>>4014668
Which makes it an even bigger tragedy.

>>4014079
I've been worried since Fallout 76 and Starfield. They haven't made anything good in years. If anything the layoffs might motivate them to make better games.

>>4014704
>If anything the layoffs might motivate them to make better games
Best I can do is H-1B visas

>>4014079
>oh no how will we live without fat male indian strip clubs in Flouride Starefield

>>4014704
Tainted Grail is making them look like hot garbage esp. when you consider team size and budgets.
It's going to be even worse for them when someone integrates actual AI for NPC behaviors into an RPG that finally delivers on the promise of the bucket of malformed scripts that was "Radiant AI", which itself is a level of technology the current garbage DEI devs can't even aspire to anymore.

>We need more brown boss women!
>Lets sell out to brown Megacorp!
>What do you mean I'm getting replaced with Rajibdi Garubdagubjachun?
>NO NOT LIKE THIS!

Will faggy Gamedevs ever actually deal with their dumb decisions or are they terminally libtards constantly shitting up things just to blame the fallout on others?

>>4014079
what have you done for me lately?

>>4015348
The idea of the next elder scrolls game being so shit even modders don't like it seems worryingly possible down this road, but I'm kind of inclined to agree. It's been what, 15 years since skyrim came out, and they still haven't put out a new elder scrolls game? That's bullshit. Maybe I'd feel differently if I liked Fallout 4 or felt anything other than disinterest in Starfield in the first place

>>4015057
They already did this with Skyrim. Check out Skyrimnet.

>>4015352
Starfield almost universally bored the fuck out of everyone except the kind of terminal I h8 magic autists you find here.

How did they fuck this up, Warhammer and WoW did it fine with 40k and Starcraft.
All they had to do was put you on a Star Trek style ship and populate the universe with Khajeetis in starfighters and mysterious Dwemer and Atlmer worlds to explore.

Instead we got retro NASA + more DEI simulator. Is this what Elder Scrolls would have been like if LSD had never been invented? Just Todd and his cold lifeless spreadsheet of a soul?

>>4015312
>leftists gaining self awareness
lmao they still think Epstein and Weinstein were republicans

>>4015654
Don't forget the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was secretly conservative.

>zos lost even more employees
Are they finally ending the travesty that is ESO?

>>4014079
Where are their replacements coming from?

>>4015716
>replacements
???
It could be that they will simply be understaffed.

>>4015720
>understaffed
Impossible unless they fire a few hundred more. Modern aaa studios are ridiculously overstaffed.

>>4015712
>>zos lost even more employees
>Are they finally ending the travesty that is ESO?
Since nobody on /vrpg/ seems to have any clue or perspective on Zenimax Online Studios

>In 2018, ZeniMax began to work on a new MMO, new IP
>The team for the game had expanded to 300 people by this time, and was aiming to release in 2028
>In 2025, ZOS had over 461 employees
>cancellation of the game and layoffs in 2025
>2026, 213 employees laid off
Woah, enough information to make an anon's head spin. But we can make a few assumptions.

1. A new IP cancelled = no need for hundreds of employees
2. New IP meant to launch in 2028 = TES Online wasn't going to be getting full attention for long

And as a more personal opinion: I wouldn't fund another IP in the form of another MMO that takes a decade to launch and another decade of support.

>>4015761
Ok that's some nice cope.

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>>4014079
No, I haven't enjoyed their games since Fallout 3. Since then, all of them have disappointed me.

>they already got thousands of visas for new workers approved
Kek the jeet CEO is actually going to try and replace everyone with more of his kind.

When will they fire Todd?

>>4014118
>>4014136
umm, chud sisters Microsoft is in the process of gutting their gayming division. Why would they issue more H1B’s for that specific division if that were the case? They’ll be more reliant on Ai slop to develop these games if anything. (But yes, for other divisions in Microsoft there’s no doubt that they’re replacing everyone with H1B Indians, just not their Xbox gaming division)

>>4016185
Around 2k issued and that’s for the entirety of the company, not the gaming division

>>4016206
>Why would they issue more H1B’s for that specific division if that were the case?
More izzat. Racial grievances from deep-seated feelings of inferiority. She (Indian) fired 3,000 Americans and applied for 5,000 H-1Bs from India. You are fucking stupid.

>>4016209
> Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS).
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fury-erupts-us-brand-fires-1600-employees-after-securing-thousands-foreign-worker-visas.amp
As I said here you silly little queen >>4016207
Those 2k visas were for the entirety of the company. Microsoft had been open about wanting to gut their gaming division for awhile now dummy, they want LESS people in the division (including H1B), not more. Copilot and AI will probably have a hand in development going into the future