For the past 15 years, the hardware costs have been subsidized by both online subscriptions and storefront cuts for digital purchases.
That being said, consoles haven’t been sold at a loss for multiple generations now. They’ve mainly been cheaper due to economies of scale
“we pointed a fuckload of MBAs that only care about monetizing
If I ever end up in a position where I’m reviewing potential employees, having an MBA is going to be an automatic rejection, regardless of their other qualifications.
Imo, getting an MBA makes you worse at being a productive employee. And the people that get them don’t have personalities that are conducive to being good at their jobs
Seems appropriate, since the game was invented by brits and the Imperium is an unholy amalgamation of the Roman and British Empires
Them don’t play 5e
Not only that, a car that old isn’t spying on you to sell the data like all the newer cars do
Also, Arthur Conan Doyle was a greedy cunt that believed that copyright should be permanent
Everything I said was relevant to your comment.
Not my fault your reading comprehension is on par with your knowledge of programming
The creation engine is still somehow just as janky every time
As someone who’s played all of their mainline games since Skyrim, this is an outright lie.
They updated the Creation Engine from 32-bit to 64-bit for Fallout 4, and since they used Skyrim as a test bed for development, all they had to do was a bit more work to make Skyrim Special Edition.
SSE is significantly more stable than LE, especially if you’re modding. And Starfield actually held to their claims of being their leadt buggy release to date.
It’s pretty clear that all you know about what’s going on with Creation Engine is just parroting the memes.
And just let Starfield die…
Starfield has a lot of good bones to work with. BGS mainly needed to spend another year on the game filling out systems and adding more content.
That being said, delaying ES6 to work on Starfield was a horrible decision. They had enough people hired after Skyrim to split into multiple teams
You clearly don’t understand software development.
If you’re a programmer, you rarely rewrite a program from scratch if you can avoid it, especially if you’re just making a version update. Do you seriously Epic threw out all their code from UE3 to code UE4 from scratch?
And honestly, Bestesda has done lots of work going through and fixing/updating existing code. Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition are 64-bit programs. Skyrim Legendary Edition and Fallout 3/New Vegas are 32-bit programs.
Updating the Creation Engine to do that requires a ton of changing existing code, but you thankfully don’t need to rewrite everything.
And their work actually makes its way to the players. Skyrim Special Edition is significantly more stable than Legendary Edition, and allows over 10x more plugin files for modders. And Starfield actually held up to the claims that it would be Bethesda’s least buggy release to date
There are already plenty of mods that handle this. It’s not a limitation of the engine. It’s just budget and time constraints
The issue with Bethesda is Emil and his shitty writing.
Plus Todd Howard is wearing too many hats as creative director for all 3 franchises, and the company has gotten too big for teams to really know each other.
I feel like BGS needs to internally split up between multiple teams. 3 teams dedicated to a single franchise each, with Todd Howard acting as creative director for only one of them and 2 more creative directors promoted from experienced team members. Then an (engine) development team for continual tech improvements. And a 5th team for finishing games by filling out the worlds via clutter, minor quests, etc. based on guidelines and assets set by the 3 primary teams
It was more like Fallout with a space theme and significantly less style in gameplay.
The biggest issue imo was scope. It was too big of a universe to do a lot of the environmental storytelling that BGS is famous for. And the more traditional storytelling was stretched too far over that expansive world. Sure, there were concentrations in cities, but that made the empty space in between more noticable.
That being said, the setup for Starfield’s setting could have been great for modders as there was tons of area to serve as a blank canvas. Unfortunately there seems to be a minimum threshold for content density for modders to jump on that, and it looks like BGS fell short
Apparently the big problem is that Todd Howard is the creative director for all 3 franchises. While he’s good at that role, he’s constantly getting pulled between the 3 series, limiting his ability to maintain a cohesive vision for any 1 game.
Plus there’s way more people in the studio, so while coworkers talked to each other a lot in the past (even on lunch breaks) there’s simply too may people to have that close of a relationsip with anymore
The annoying part about the “creation engine” is that it’s still just the corpse of the gamebryo engine that they keep reanimating with their own crap on top of it.
This is literally every commercial game engine, including Unreal and Unity
Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me
I don’t think that’s as big of a problem as you think. Community Shaders exists alongside a ton of additional plugins, all of which are open source and just work in Slyrim.
Also, Unreal’s graphics engine looks awful
That they didn’t manage to build a new tech stack in the absurd amount of time since Skyrim is just embarrassing.
1: They were making games in that time, just not Elder Scrolls
2: Completely switching engines would make all the tools the modding community has built over the years useless, potentially killing that community for the new games
3: Every other game engine is also just as old as Creation Engine if you only look at when the code was first made, like you’re doing right now
The reboot was a perfect example of why you should just let some series have their satisfying ending and leave it at that