Company News Bethesda acquired by Microsoft

[DeepOcean]

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.

Yeah, the only reason New Vegas was good was because it was based on the old Van Buren design document and before Obsidian completing the cuckfication process. I cannot see a situation where the danger hairs in there will allow any triggering idea. I have zero faith on Obsidian. Actually, despite Bethesda being incompetent at anything they do, they at least fail for honest reasons, they cant do shit well even if they wanted, what Obsidian did with Outer Worlds was purposeful incompetence what is even worse.

The good side of this is the possibility of, one day, Microsoft decides going full EA like they did before, Obsidian current state makes me feel pitiful, wanting a merciful death like an old friend of yours that became a twitter zombie.

 

[Lacrymas]

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…

Did you know that Amazon has a game development branch? Yeap. It's developing an MMO, though. Bad move if you ask me.

 

[Serious_Business]

No game company has ever lasted through time more than a decade or two, if you think about. Either they die out or become too big to have anything to do with their origins. If anything game companies are discardable assets, and they become a kind of progressive dissapointment for "fans" (those that identify to brands and such, the "good buyers"). Of course I'm not sure if the short lifespan of companies isn't something that applies to any kind of company since the last 3 or 4 decades. Similarly, no product made under capitalism is meant to last, otherwise profit isn't possible ; no doubt that this means something for the circulation of entreprises as well. There's your social commentary, I guess, except that it's not in the games, it's outside them.

 

[Thal]

Not joking, my windows bluescreened when I tried to open the link, where Pete tries to explain this shit away.

 

[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.

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

It will reach it's peak when there are only oligopolies left and smaller companies won't be needed anymore to keep the facade of free system, so they will be ridiculed. Now they act as a shield for procorporate agenda.

 

[Shitty Kitty]

The optimism people have about Microsoft buying up things and "fixing/reviving" them is wholly unwarranted and makes me laugh in MechWarrior

 

[The_Mask]

No game company has ever lasted through time more than a decade or two, if you think about.

Founded: November 1, 1986; 33 years ago

Praise the sun! \\ o //

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

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.

You don't understand. It doesn't matter if the investment will pay out. Blocking other corporations from buying properties that may give them market advantage/ stopping new corporations from growing is what counts the most.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

All I can say is Wasteland 3 turned out well despite inXile being MS-owned. At the very least, they don't *seem* to interfere with the creative process.

 

[ADL]

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

And why do you care about ESO servers?

Because TESO is the best thing to happen to that series since Daggerfall and Morrowind by miles. Their handling of the lore is excellent.

All I can say is Wasteland 3 turned out well despite inXile being MS-owned. At the very least, they don't *seem* to interfere with the creative process.

I know a handful of people at Microsoft owned studios and they all say they're extremely hands off and I'm not surprised. Not only are they hands off, they're able to make weird experimental games because of the GamePass model that otherwise wouldn't be commercially viable.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

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

2025: Microsft buys CDPR.

 

[MRY]

Thanks to new economies of scale, they can all wear Daedric Armor! It's amazing to think how well-to-do all the founders of these once-small RPG studios now are. If only Troika had managed to hold out.

 

[Shitty Kitty]

 

[Dishonoredbr]

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.

Yeah, the only reason New Vegas was good was because it was based on the old Van Buren design document and before Obsidian completing the cuckfication process. I cannot see a situation where the danger hairs in there will allow any triggering idea. I have zero faith on Obsidian. Actually, despite Bethesda being incompetent at anything they do, they at least fail for honest reasons, they cant do shit well even if they wanted, what Obsidian did with Outer Worlds was purposeful incompetence what is even worse.

The good side of this is the possibility of, one day, Microsoft decides going full EA like they did before, Obsidian current state makes me feel pitiful, wanting a merciful death like an old friend of yours that became a twitter zombie.

I liked Deadfire.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

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.

Yeah, the only reason New Vegas was good was because it was based on the old Van Buren design document and before Obsidian completing the cuckfication process. I cannot see a situation where the danger hairs in there will allow any triggering idea. I have zero faith on Obsidian. Actually, despite Bethesda being incompetent at anything they do, they at least fail for honest reasons, they cant do shit well even if they wanted, what Obsidian did with Outer Worlds was purposeful incompetence what is even worse.

The good side of this is the possibility of, one day, Microsoft decides going full EA like they did before, Obsidian current state makes me feel pitiful, wanting a merciful death like an old friend of yours that became a twitter zombie.

I liked Deadfire.

I like both Pillars of Eternity and the entire setting. Please don't hate me.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

Ah, Sawyer, you sly dog, now I know what you've been doing all along. You weren't "shattered" by the commercial failure of your latest product. You've been spending these months preparing for a new Fallout game. Good lad.

Now go and develop my Fallout game set in Mexico, or Latin America in general.

 

[CappenVarra]

why is this in rpg news?

...

oh wait, it's no longer "rpg news and content", just "news and content"?

next, rename the site to "codex.net"

 

[DeepOcean]

I like both Pillars of Eternity and the entire setting. Please don't hate me.

I dont hate people with bad taste, so dont worry, what I hate are people who stop artistic expression because of mah feelings or worse, the feelings of others because they are afraid of making internet psychos feeling bad. Cowards only deserve a shallow grave.

 

[karoliner]

Imagine a Shadowrun game made by Bethesda. Ewwww.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

I remember now, when Microsoft bought Obsidian I asked Infinitron: "Does it mean that Microsoft replace Obsidain in developers subforum?" (or something like that, I don't remember exactly, it's was long ago)
So now I shall same question for Bethesda sub-forum, even better, put up a question about both forums since Obsidian still under Microsoft.
So will be these forums archived and replaced by Microsoft? Infinitron Or will these forums remain as memory while studious themselves will be but a shell of themselves? (I mean they started to rot before Microsoft bought them, but there a little sense to keep these separate forums)

 

[Infinitron]

The subforums are for development studios, not publishers. We don't talk about Doom or Dishonored in the Bethesda subforum either.

 

[prengle]

 

[Turuko]

No game company has ever lasted through time more than a decade or two, if you think about.

Founded: November 1, 1986; 33 years ago

Praise the sun! \\ o //

acquired by Kadokawa corporation in 2014
2 decades and half, close

 

[Your Order Has Arrived]

I remember now, when Microsoft bought Obsidian I asked Infinitron: "Does it mean that Microsoft replace Obsidain in developers subforum?" (or something like that, I don't remember exactly, it's was long ago)
So now I shall same question for Bethesda sub-forum, even better, put up a question about both forums since Obsidian still under Microsoft.
So will be these forums archived and replaced by Microsoft? Infinitron Or will these forums remain as memory while studious themselves will be but a shell of themselves? (I mean they started to rot before Microsoft bought them, but there a little sense to keep these separate forums)

In time the entire General RPG forum will be about Microsoft's games.

 

[Black_Willow]

"WHY MICROSOFT IS THE PERFECT FIT
Today we announced we’re joining the Microsoft family..."