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I’m sure the dev didn’t get a say in the matter
After reading the article, it sounds like they had no say. Microsoft bought them and started laying off employees.
Amazing to learn that if you fire someone who knows how it works the works stop. Supply and demand or something. Maybe every economy “professor” should be fired annual from Business School. Might help redirect the invisible ham of the market 🍖
What about Microslop's vast history of poor management would have made this not the foreseen outcome?
I recall seeing an in-depth retrospective of either Oblivion or Skyrim, and Todd's recurring defense of the dumbing down of the games was to avoid the state Bethesda was in during Morrowind's development, where the future of the company was very much uncertain, and where Todd was one of the folks not sure if they were going to have a job next month. I dunno about Todd himself, but I guess that line of thinking isn't present in the people with the power nowadays.
Color me shocked. Big cooperation wrings out smaller cooperation for all it’s worth.
sorry but I'm not sure all those employees are necessary when Bethesda is just remastering fully finished games nowadays...
it saddens me that the drive and exploration that made companies like this big is being buried and not fostered. the gaming industry is so massively profitable that they could achieve exploration and job security simultaneously, but instead just end up overpaying clueless managers...