Microsoft acquires Bethesda/Zenimax

[WhiskeyWolf]

 

[ADL]

Ok, considering that such crazy scenario such as Microsoft buying Bethesda happened, perhaps Sony will do stupid shit too and by ubisoft for example.

Not saying it's impossible, but Sony doesn't have Microsoft's level of "fuck you money."

Yeah this is "found in furniture" money to Microsoft. Azure and Office365 subscriptions alone could buy out every major player in this industry with ease.

 

[Child of Malkav]

https://www.vg247.com/2020/09/21/ps5-exclusivity-agreement-deathoop-ghostwire-tokyo/

 

[Ol' Willy]

Veronica is lesbian. Arcade Gannon is gay.

Interesting. It was a while since I played FNV last time, so maybe I forgot, or maybe they didn't rub their orientation in your face back then. Although how would I know, I took only Raul as a companion.

So, fetish for lesbian engineers started in Obsidian far back in 2010?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[ADL]

Not surprised. They were never gonna buy out the exclusivity agreements from Sony for Ghostwire and Deathloop. What will be interesting to see is if these kinds of deals have already been signed one way or the other for Starfield or TESVI. I doubt it but you never know.

 

[Spectacle]

Zenimax and Bethesda as whole. So they got all their franchises.

7.5 billion shekels...damn

Three times as much as they paid for Minecraft! Notch got robbed!

 

[Prime Junta]

Veronica is lesbian. Arcade Gannon is gay.

Interesting. It was a while since I played FNV last time, so maybe I forgot, or maybe they didn't rub their orientation in your face back then. Although how would I know, I took only Raul as a companion.

So, fetish for lesbian engineers started in Obsidian far back in 2010?

You might want to sit down for this because it may come as a shock.

It turns out that Tim Cain, the first and for a quite a while only worker on the Fallout project -- the creator of the entire franchise, if you will --... is gay.

 

[TemplarGR]

Well, reading Todd's letter explains why they never brought their games on Linux.... Still, if this leads to some better single player games, i am all for it.

 

[typical user]

Now Microsoft should fire Todd Howard and Pete Hines, burn their offices to the ground and give Fallout to inXile and Obsidian and have the skeleton crew from Bethesda work on Minecraft.

 

[Yosharian]

How the fuck do you play FNV and not find out that Veronica is gay

Also you have to speak to Arcade to get one of the best power armours in the game so him too

 

[Naraya]

dafuq? how? did they buy zenimax or just bethesda?



LMAO

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/iwzzh5/welcoming_the_talented_teams_and_beloved_game/

They didn't just buy Bethesda, they bought the parent company Zenimax Media. That means Microsoft now owns, quoted from Wikipedia:

id Software (developer of the Doom, Quake and Rage series)

Arkane Studios (developer of Dishonored and Prey)

MachineGames (developer of the Wolfenstein series)

Tango Gameworks (developer of The Evil Within)

publisher Bethesda Softworks with its Bethesda Game Studios (developer of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series) and ZeniMax Online Studios (developer of The Elder Scrolls Online).

 

[Prime Junta]

imagine the economies of scale

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Now Microsoft should fire Todd Howard and Pete Hines, burn their offices to the ground and give Fallout to inXile and Obsidian and have the skeleton crew from Bethesda work on Minecraft.

Give it a rest. Neither Bethesda, nor Obsidian, nor InXile are capable of making a proper Fallout game anymore. It's over.

 

[vonAchdorf]

imagine the economies of scale

Like?

 

[Child of Malkav]

How the fuck do you play FNV and not find out that Veronica is gay

Also you have to speak to Arcade to get one of the best power armours in the game so him too

Even if you interact with them they don't come out and say it in your face. You have to go through the dialogue options for a while.....
I didn't know either, and now that I do, Veronica and Arcade won't make it till the end of the game anymore.

 

[typical user]

Now Microsoft should fire Todd Howard and Pete Hines, burn their offices to the ground and give Fallout to inXile and Obsidian and have the skeleton crew from Bethesda work on Minecraft.

Give it a rest. Neither Bethesda, nor Obsidian, nor InXile are capable of making a proper Fallout game anymore. It's over.

Nah, if you have passionate people on the steering wheel then it is possible. But Fallout was driven by shekel-hungry faceless corpo-suits.

 

[Casual Hero]

Brace yourselves...

 

[Prime Junta]

imagine the economies of scale

Like?

unified workflow, toolset, production pipelines, QA, style guide, rapidly shifting developers and content creators from project to project as they are needed, clear definition of roles and hierarchy, every worker – a cog in a well oiled machine, generating shareholder value... new AAA game every year, no, THREE TIMES a year, just like UbiSoft

 

[Yosharian]

How the fuck do you play FNV and not find out that Veronica is gay

Also you have to speak to Arcade to get one of the best power armours in the game so him too

Even if you interact with them they don't come out and say it in your face. You have to go through the dialogue options for a while.....
I didn't know either, and now that I do, Veronica and Arcade won't make it till the end of the game anymore.

That is my point, like do people not talk to the companion NPCs? What is the point of playing Vegas, then?

 

[Prime Junta]

Let the franchise rest in peace. It’s been done to death many times over, there’s nothing worthwhile left in it to milk.

And Shady Sands will always be there for us.

 

[Silly Germans]

Urgh, looks like a step closer to the pure games-as-a-service hell. I hope Microsoft fumbles like they did in the past when they tried to push a service but i am afraid that they have learned some lessons from the past, doing it more gradually with sweet deals along the way.

 

[LESS T_T]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

How the fuck do you play FNV and not find out that Veronica is gay

Also you have to speak to Arcade to get one of the best power armours in the game so him too

I had no idea arcade is gay until I read it somewhere way after playing it

 

[zapotec]

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