Company News Bethesda acquired by Microsoft

[cpmartins]

Methinks hardcore rpg gamers with a Sony inclination won't be too happy about this move.

They said the games are not gonna be Xbox/PC exclusive.

Really? What's the point then? Exclusives are what consoletards use when masturbating to their idiotboxes.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Finally, now I can have dragon shouts in every RPG that comes out of Obsidian. An RPG without a dragon shout is shit.

Therefore the 2 South Park RPG's are pure gold.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Brian Fargo Fallout game. LET'S GO

 

[Adon]

Methinks hardcore rpg gamers with a Sony inclination won't be too happy about this move.

They said the games are not gonna be Xbox/PC exclusive.

Where? If they did, I’m assuming most than likely it pertains to games already announced for other consoles that they have to honor i.e. Deathloop and Ghostwire

 

[samuraigaiden]

It's a big blow to GOG.com. Bethesda was putting all their games on the store, Microsoft ignores them completely.

 

[Turuko]

Phase 1 [Embrace]
Status = *COMPLETE*

Phase 2 [Extend]
Status = Initialized...

 

[Zarniwoop]

Critically acclaimed creators of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Dishonored, Quake

...errr no

That's a bit like a "performance artist" saying he's the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge because he took a shit on it and created an "art piece".

As the great Librul Prophet once said:

 

[kangaxx]

Interesting move in the console war. I always felt the exclusives were weighted in Sony's favour, but I suppose this forces the console people to make something approaching an actual choice.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

 

[hivemind]

Methinks hardcore rpg gamers with a Sony inclination won't be too happy about this move.

They said the games are not gonna be Xbox/PC exclusive.

They don't need them to be exclusive when they can put them on the Xbox game pass for 1 dollar a month.

Are you going to buy a play station when you will be expected to spend hundreds of more dollars on video games or will you simply buy an Xbox which has all the games you could ever want from Microsoft owned studio available for a negligible subscription cost?

With this as a main selling point Sony is going to get absolutely destroyed come next gen release.

 

[Eastwood]

So why is Microsoft even funding Obsidian's Skyrim clone, if they were planning on buying the real thing anyway?

 

[Anthedon]

Where is the spinning when I need it most?

 

[Whipped Cream]

Pretty huge news. There have been rumors around for years that Zenimax owners wanted to sell, and Microsoft is really the only gaming company that was in a position where they could buy them without breaking a sweat, so I guess this makes sense.

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.

Also: I guess this means that Obsidian might get to make another Fallout game after all.

 

[Turuko]

Interesting move in the console war. I always felt the exclusives were weighted in Sony's favour, but I suppose this forces the console people to make something approaching an actual choice.

the funniest shit is that MS is gonna "publish" two timed exclusive only on PS5

now

iwe don't know when either deal happened, but considering the scope of this news my headcanon is that Bethesda hustled Sony already knowing the wheels were in motion for the acquisition

 

[Mech]

Also: I guess this means that Obsidian might get to make another Fallout game after all.

More likely Fallout: Remastered Edition. (Pun intended)

 

[DeepOcean]

For us, this wont change much, Microsoft isnt any less woke than Bethesda and Bethesda games will remain as popamole as ever. Maybe with Microsoft money, their games are less buggy but even there isnt a given.

Implying they'll ditch gamebryo, ever. That engine is the appendix that will kill bethesda.

I know that Gamebryo is shit but their games are shitty more because of choice than actually the shitty engine, I doubt that changing the engine will fix their god awful writing, popamole rpg systems, terrible world building and quest design.

 

[Tyranicon]

Sony and Playstation players should be in panic mode though. Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6 and a host of other games just became console exclusives.

I know the codex opinion is only a minority opinion, but Bethseda games are absolute hot garbage on console because they need mods to fix various bugs and... well, make the game actually interesting. Still, exclusivity is shitty.

 

[Sin2x]

*сautiously optimistic*

 

[Sin2x]

I know that Gamebryo is shit but their games are shitty more because of choice than actually the shitty engine, I doubt that changing the engine will fix their god awful writing, popamole rpg systems, terrible world building and quest design.

30,000,000 copies of Skyrim sold.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

Obsidian, Inxile and now Bethesda. MS betting on infinite monkeys and typewriters.

 

[Doktor Best]

It can only get better right?

 

[DeepOcean]

I'm not optimistic at all, Bethesda fan base continues the same, selling them garbage will continue to work so Bethesda will keep making garbage.

 

[himmy]

It's a big blow to GOG.com. Bethesda was putting all their games on the store, Microsoft ignores them completely.

You're acting like Microsoft won't own GOG after they buy the entire country of Poland by this time next year.

 

[V_K]

So why is Microsoft even funding Obsidian's Skyrim clone, if they were planning on buying the real thing anyway?

Not only Obsidian's, inXile is working on one too. I guess MS just wants as much Skyrim as possible.

 

[Sin2x]

Not only Obsidian's, inXile is working on one too. I guess MS just wants as much Skyrim as possible.

All in the name of diversity!