Xbox Has Reportedly Begun Layoffs At Zenimax (Bethesda). ID Software, Arkane, and Machine Games In Danger As “Anyone Not Working On Fallout Or Elder Scrolls Is Out”
4h 15m ago by lemmy.today/u/sanitation in pcmasterrace from www.thesixthaxis.com
Well, studio closed. Fallout 4 was released in 2015 and the last elder scrolls game was 2011.
I haven’t seen anyone who would be in the know reporting this (eg Jason Schreier) and this article is using a reply to a tweet from a non MSFT dev as its source. Seems like clickbait.
Damn it microslop! You already closed Arkane Austin, I will be so disappointed if Lyon goes too.
With no hope of Dishonored 3, I'm resigned to wander the wastes of this doomed world.
Microsoft eventually ruins what they touch.
Bethesda is the only good, old, non indy studio left.
Not to disagree but, when was the last new "good" game from Bethesda released, in your opinion?
Personally, i like the subsidiary studios. Dishonored, prey, wolfenstein, doom
ZeniMax uses Bethesda Softworks to publish the projects from various studios, but those studios aren't subsidiaries of Softworks.
The only Softworks subsidiary is Bethesda Game Studios, the other studios are under ZeniMax directly.
How much pressure Softworks may have as a publisher over those studios is much more questionable compared to the Bethesda Game Studios games because of that difference.
Well that sucks. With them shaving the fat and micromanaging already, any new FO or ES games are sure to be shit.
Very good to hear tbh. Maybe Bethesda can make games again?
They havent made a good game in over a decade
I dont have high hopes
F03 was almost twenty years ago, and we all know NV was outsourced.
It's honestly just like 90% schadenfreude for me with this headline because what the fuck have these people been doing for so long??
Chiming in to defend FO4. I have nearly 7000 hours in that game, thanks in no small part to mods.
Even FO4 has been over a decade.
It's all relative too. Even if FO4 is a decent game, I don't think many would argue against the idea that it is objectively less good than the earlier Fallout titles. Just like Skyrim was better than Oblivion. Just like Starfield was not up to par with any earlier Bethesda release, despite the ambition.
It doesn't mean any of them are bad games, but the relative pattern / trajectory of Bethesda is plain to see.
Ugh. I found 4 to be the worst of the first-person SPs.