Company News Bethesda acquired by Microsoft

[entr0py]

Holy shit, I actually really had to check if its April 1st.... (Working from home really fucks with your perception of time)

 

[Lacrymas]

Roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofl.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I hate Bethesda. But I also hate oligopoly and big companies buying out smaller companies is always bad for everyone with the exception of both companies CEOs. I want Microsoft to burn.

 

[Zlaja]

Well, maybe Elder Scrolls Online will finally upgrade their God-awfully slow servers.

And why do you care about ESO servers?

 

[Azalin]

Where is the spinning when I need it most?

 

[pomenitul]

Sooner or later there will only be a single conglomerate devoted to designing Western-style CRPGs.

 

[Sam Ecorners]

Wait, so does that make CDPR the biggest independent game company now?

 

[sser]

In retrospect, maybe they swindled Notch with that $2.5 b-notes.

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[S.torch]

I hate Bethesda. But I also hate oligopoly and big companies buying out smaller companies is always bad for everyone with the exception of both companies CEOs. I want Microsoft to burn.

In America this has been the trend for a good time already, and it probably has reached its peak in this year.

 

[V_K]

Wait, so does that make CDPR the biggest independent game company now?

Depending on how you define independent. There's still Ubisoft.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Man, I really love when Darth Roxor reports news! His objectivity, friendliness and optimism are contagious. They make everyone a better person.

 

[Haba]

mfw

 

[madhouse]

I see no loss here.

 

[Tramboi]

Sooner or later there will only be a single conglomerate devoted to designing Western-style CRPGs.

They won't buy Cleve.

 

[Sam Ecorners]

Man, imagine being a bethesda fan and preordering ps5 for starfield and ESVI, only for this news to come out. Someone, do a compilation of twitter butthurt

 

[Ibn Sina]

There is no reason to keep Obshitian around now. Now that they have the big boss Bethseda. They will liquidate obshitian and all the danger hairs and cucks in this shitty company will be looking for work elsewhere.

 

[Ibn Sina]

Lets hope not. It will be shitty ideology driven akin to outer worlds, they will make the legion progressive with wombyn legatus and equal rights and shit.

 

[hpstg]

As long as their games still release on Steam the same day that they release on Xbox I don't think this will matter all that much to PC gamers. The leadership of Zenimax were terrible. Microsoft is at worst equally bad and arguably an improvement. Sony and Playstation players should be in panic mode though. Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6 and a host of other games just became console exclusives.

At first glance it looks like they're going after Sony, but the real target here is Valve.

Valve hasn't done anything to their selling model (you still "purchase" a game that gives you the right to subscribe to Valve's services to play it).

GamePass with all the stuff they have now + EA Pass games, is a real danger to Valve, and no one else.

People who buy PlayStations don't get them for the cross platform games anyway. It's more like the adult's Nintendo.

 

[Lacrymas]

Sooner or later there will only be a single conglomerate devoted to designing Western-style CRPGs.

This is a frighteningly possible scenario. It's kind of like Disney, right? They'll eventually buy out everyone. This is an inevitable consequence of the way our market works. Also, there can't be a conglomerate focused on one thing, the essence of a conglomerate is to be multi-market. But I digress with autism.

 

[Curratum]

With TES 6 not coming to PS5, I think Armageddon will not be a comet or nukes, but the earth becoming a giant orb of salt, floating in space.

 

[Bendu]

Microsoft buying all those studios and Sony is still gonna have the better exclusives.

 

[cvv]

They're paying 7,5 billion for that pile of shit, aaahahaha, that's even more hilarious than Disney falling for Lucas' 5 billion scam.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

lol noobs

 

[pomenitul]

Also, there can't be a conglomerate focused on one thing, the essence of a conglomerate is to be multi-market.

Fair enough. I meant more in the sense that said conglomerate, among its myriad business ventures, will sport a wing entirely dedicated to Western CRPGs – which is already happening in all but name.

Then again, I doubt CDPR and EA will go down without a fight. Now, Larian, on the other hand…