How would you fix this company?
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How would you fix this company?
How would you fix this company?
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0 good games btw
Sell licenses for the IPs they own and hire actually good writers to write lore for games to base around.
The only reason anyone plays Bethesda games is because they own the IPs of franchises people enjoy. Starfield is proof of that when they're not using an IP that anyone cares about, only a handful of autistics will play and defend their games.
they desperately need better writers and voice actors
they making a movie?
This. I've been replaying Fo3 and genuinely enjoying it. The world is fun to explore, it has good dungeons, and decent art design. The game is purely held back by how bad the writing and dialogue is.
Pickpocket! Pickpocket! Guard your purses!
Give their IPs to someone competent, close the studio
Fire Todd and Emil
bring in the guys from id tech
They literally did that for fallout. How much did it help?
Fire everybody that didn’t work on morrowind
There's no fixing this company
Bethesda is stuck in this middle ground where they desperately need to rewrite their engine from scratch, but that's expensive and their Microsoft shareholders would never ever allow that
I genuinely don't know if they have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Their art, writing, gameplay, they're all nothing special
they are a bunch of glorified modders who refuse to leave their comfort zone of the creation engine
they got too big for their own good with skyrim and fallout 4
I would describe to them the rabbits while they looked over the quiet pond
Stop discussing Bethesda
Move. The. Frick. On.
Tell them to dial down on the obsession of making bigger maps and start telling them to focus on the radiant AI, physics, art directions, and quest designs.
>radiant AI, physics
anon, these are bullshit marketing gimmicks, focusing on these things is exactly what's been holding bethesda back
This has to be the first time I've ever seen someone want more radiant AI, what the frick.
Get Kirkbride back and make him Todd's boss
Execute everyone who didn't work on Skyrim. Stop making Fallout games entirely.
most of their current sloppers worked on skyrim
they don't need fixing, they are functioning perfectly as a moron containment chamber. the only thing i would do is start murdering any of their braindead fanboys and shills that start sperging out as if anyone else gives a frick about their dogshit "games".
>they are functioning perfectly as a moron containment
Much like this site
After the MMO, I don't like TES anymore
After Fallout 76, I don't like Fallout anymore
Starfield ...
no thanks Todd. I don't care about your games any longer.
>How would you fix this company?
You don't. They've leaned into their """production model""" and they do not possess the ability to pivot any longer. They're all in for pushing out bare-minimum quality games from their assembly line style of gamedev. As another anon suggested, selling licenses for IPs is the only way you "fix" this trainwreck. They're not here to "wow" you with their creative design, they're here to shit titles that normies buy out of ignorance and/or habit. Which is working, btw.
just get rid of them
there's nothing to fix
it's like asking what i'd do to fix blizzard. just fricking nuke em
thread should have ended here
Get rid of emil. He's been phoning in his effort from day one. The guy cant write, and he has no interest in improving, its been over 10 years and starfield is definitive proof he sucks ass.
And then on top of that his GDC talk basically unveiled how fundamentally moronic he is.
You can't. The problem with ALL vidya studios is employee turnover and basic economics.
The people who made fo3 did not make fo4. The tools are the same- same engine, same sdlc, etc. But every time they make a game they have to spend x amount of time relearning their own systems because devs leave.
For a studio to make games that are better every time, you need employees who will grow with the company. But people won't stay if they aren't regularly promoted/compensated. But no company can afford to pay EVERYONE a senior level salary. There's really no solution.
Japan is the closest you can get- companies like Nintendo and Fromsoft manage to improve YOY, but that's only because Japan is a post-growth hellscape where people are happy to work the same job for the same shit wage until they die. The west isn't like that.
>The problem with ALL vidya studios
Wube software doesn't have this problem
They cannot make a good game without people making 10,000 mods for it for free. Never could.
with ai takeover
>it just works
AI is the only thing that can save the industry.
People always talk about AI replacing programmers but what about execs? I swear ChatGPT would hallucinate less than Todd.