Assisted Living Godzilla
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I'm saying that they are making more money from ESO + Skyrim than they would from releasing a new ES game.
No doubt in their minds they are worried that a new ES game would mean players stop subbing to ESO.
Hell even I considered trying out ESO this past year, and that game is a giant turd + I hate tab target MMOs.
This all makes sense from a money perspective if you think about it. Artistically and creatively, no, but financially? Hell yes.
As for Fallout, they already shat out a Fallout game recently and they're trying to harvest the maximum amount of profits from that. No way they're going to give the licence to someone else so they can watch the already low FO76 player base migrate to another game.
You guys are stuck thinking about this like an actual developer who enjoys making games. If you think like an executive who makes $600k a year plus bonuses based on profits, then suddenly who gives a shit about anything but profit, and FO76 and ESO are massive earners (yes even FO76 because it cost almost nothing to make).
This is stupid. What I'm saying doesn't mean they don't do what they did with ESO and Skyrim. I'm not posing a scruples question, it's not a either or thing. They can still sell those and sell other shit with those brands slapped on them.
I doubt they think another Elder Scrolls would make people stop playing their Online game. If that were true they probably wouldn't be rereleasing Skyrim every other day, and they wouldn't have done that Blades game or whatever it's called. The point is they're getting these other studios to make games for them and if they had them working within the brands that more people know more people would buy them, which would give them more money. I'm thinking of this from a money point of view. If Avalanche had made a third person Fallout game where you're driving around the wasteland fixing up vechicles and power armor and doing shit you could do in their previous games...that would have had way more attention directed at it, and it would have sold more than a sequel to Rage. If they had another Fallout game out their it likely would've also alleviated the clusterfuck they found themselves in with Fallout 76. It wouldn't have drawn away the hardcore Bethesda fanboys that stuck with '76 either, because they're hardcore fanboys and 76 is the one Bethesda made; they'd also be two very different feeling games.