Never ceased to be amazed about how many people are still obsessed with this low-talent studio low-quality products. My only explanation is that for the last 30 years they have been basically the only game in town - the only ones making big budget, open-world, single-player RPGs in the most popular, most coveted setting: high-fantasy. There has never been any competition for that.
There are a lot of big budget, open-world, high-fantasy MMOs. A lot of big budget, open-world non-RPGs (Ubisoft). Some big budget, high-fantasy RPGs but not open-world (Bioware). Some high-fantasy, open-world RPGs but not triple A (Piranha Bytes). The closest competitor is Witcher 3 (twenty years after Arena) but it's a bit too mature and low-fantasy for your typical fantasy fans. People are so starved for open-world RPGs even a manchild-hostile, zero-fantasy game like Kingdom Come can sell a million copies in a week. But NOBODY FUCKING NOTICES THAT?
What if Blizzard decided to make a single-player, open-world RPG in the Warcraft world? Can you imagine the craze if Ubisoft made an open-world, single-player RPG in the LotR setting? Or the Forgotten Realms setting? Or the fucking GoT or Conan setting? Or the world of R. E. Feist, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Terry Goodkind or other insanely popular epic-fantasy worlds? How utterly obvious Bethesda's ineptitude, incompetence and laziness would then become?
How is it nobody is willing to collect those hundreds of millions in sales that literally pile in huge drifts all over the place?
