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simple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago

'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard

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'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard

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The boss of Bethesda has told staff the company must now focus on its “strongest franchises” amid sweeping layoffs across Xbox.
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  • Green Wizard@lemmy.zip
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    Good luck Bethesda, even Obsidian has hit an 18 carat run of bad luck. I guess they’ll stay afloat due to casual players and the fact that its an elderschrolls game. But count me the fuck out on getting es7, that shit will need to be fucking amazing for me to pay the AAA price it will inevitability be, and I mean AMAZING cause after fallout 4 I’ve been disappointed with them. God I wanna be wrong Tod, PLEASE TOD PROVE ME WRONG 😭

    • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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      You dont need to worry about ES7, with the amount of time ES6 is taking, ES7 wont be within out lifetimes

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    They have one of those left?

  • Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip
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    NGL I don’t have a lot of faith in Bethesda to actually create quality anymore. The image for this is for Vegas, which was more obsidian’s work, and they did it in a fraction of time, I think?

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      I’m a huge Elder Scrolls fan. I met my partner on Elder Scrolls Online. I have pretty much zero faith in Elder Scrolls VI being any good.

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      Yea it was a very short window for development, 18 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas

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    I’m not a CEO or anything but maybe they should try making an elder scrolls more than once every 20 years.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      But making games costs money. Corporations are supposed to make money for their shareholders, not spend it!

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Is Skyrim really the last one???

      • formergijoe@lemmy.world
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        I guess the Elder Scrolls Online technically counts as an Elder Scrolls post Skyrim

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          That wasn’t even made by Bethesda, though.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.world
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    Is that code for “Rerelease Skyrim again”?

    • CubitOom@infosec.pub
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      Its code for more horse armour and online services that they can milk for years

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I mean fuck, better than what they’ve been doing.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      I mean if they did the Oblivion Remastered with Skyrim, that’s easy fucking money.

      Or even Fallout 3 & 4.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        Fuck no, not that. UE5 looks horrible, and most of the NPC’s in the Oblivion remaster look lile skinwalkers

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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        Honestly I’d be alright with fallout 3 remastered

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          That’s what you’re going to get.

          • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social
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            Honestly, I’d be alright with $10,000

            • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              That’s what you’re going to get!

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              • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social
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                I like this game

              • Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app
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                Your username made me want to smoke a brisket and watch Cowboy Bebop…thanks for setting my weekend plans for me!

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    What else have they been busy with? Just Starfield?

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      Mostly ports. Because the switch 2 really needed a fallout 4 port.

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      Seriously, it isn’t like Bethesda has a long list of IP to work with here.

      Other than Elder Scrolls and Fallout (which they should already be assumed to be focusing on to begin with), the only other IPs that are still alive would be DOOM and maybe Wolfenstein,

      Dishonored is dead, Quake is dead, they shuttered Tango so no continuation of Hi-Fi Rush or Ghostwire, RAGE is dead.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        Unfortunately, Bethesda decided to spend all their time working on Starfield. The only thing they had when they revealed the ES6 trailer, was the video. And that’s because they knew they’d get lynched if they didn’t annoubce ES6

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        Thanks I suppose I forgot about Doom. So, he meant they shouldn’t focus on Doom lol.

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        Hi-fi got picked up by a different studio, didn’t it?

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          Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP got acquired by Krafton, who is known for publishing PUBG.

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            Krafton can eat a bag of dicks

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          Not as far as I’m aware.

          • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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            Tango was purchased by Krafton and HiFi Rush 2 is supposedly in the works.

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              Oh sweet.

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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        Oh is it Bethesda and ID software now? I didn’t know they merged. I knew ID software helped with Starfield, but I thought they were still separate.

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          The Bethesda-id software-ZeniMax shit is so confusing, especially since Microsoft acquired Zenimax, and by extension Bethesda and id, in 2021.

          They are “technically” separate but Bethesda is still the primary publisher of id software’s games, and thus they do fall under their umbrella.

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      Likely ES6, and the DLC for Starfield.

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        I was wondering which franchises other than their “strongest franchises”. I think it’s starfield and doom.

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      TES6 for sure and possibly a new Fallout, if rumors are true. Also don’t Bethesda handle Doom, now? There’s gonna be a DLC to Dark Age coming out tomorrow.

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        id develops Doom, Bethesda is the publisher, both of which are owned by ZeniMax, itself owned by Micro$lop under the Xbox division

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        Also don’t Bethesda handle Doom, now?

        No, id Software is the developer company, which is owned by the publisher and published by Bethesda Softworks, both of which are owned by ZeniMax. The “Bethesda” that does actual game development is called Bethesda Game Studios; they handle franchises like Fallout and TES.

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          Which one is talking in the article though? I am not sure who Jill Braff is; boss of the game development studio, or the larger publishing part of “Bethesda?” I thought Todd was the main person in charge of the game dev studio part, so I assume this is coming from the publishing part of Bethesda.

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            Bethesda is hit particularly hard by the layoffs, IGN understands, with staff across its many development studios

            It’s talking about the publisher.

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    Just make creative and fun games.

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    The morale must be great.

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