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Bethesda on Dishonored: “We Clearly Have a New Franchise”

Releasing a brand new IP at any point during a console life cycle can always be a risk, but when it’s as awesome as Dishonored, that risk quickly turns into a reward.

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Irishguy954160d ago

So...the milk machine starts on runnin'

Really, Bethesda will turn this into Cod with how they treat the Elder scrolls

KangarooSam4160d ago

There is absolutely no way Dishonored could be turned into anything even remotely like Call of Duty. I don't see yearly games, I'd say probably every two years or so cause this formula could get old after a while. And I know, "isn't COD's formula old?" yes, but in a different sense. People love the replayability of the online feature. Dishonored could not replicate that.

Also, really? Talking smack about The Elder Scrolls, boy? I'll agree that people who say "OMG Skyrim is such a great series, I've played all of them" piss me the hell off. But the people who actually have played the older ones know that although they can be bug ridden, Bethesda is pretty damn great at being creative. If not in gameplay then environments, graphics, etc.

vork774160d ago

Bethesda did not make the game, Arkane Studios made it, Bethesda only publish it.

StanLee4160d ago

Fantastic game though. Man, there have been some great games this fall. Halo 4, Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3. Dishonored was the only new IP to really do well critically and commercially.

itani4160d ago

I don't care about Dishonored now get to work on a new Fallout game already!

MariaHelFutura4160d ago

ES4 came out in 2006, ES5 came out in 2011. The milk would be curdled.

NukaCola4160d ago

Agreed. The ES and Fallout bounces back between a 2 year cycle, even with DLC and Obsidian doing New Vegas. Their series aren't milked or in need of more dev time. Only thing they need is more testers. That is their biggest downfall.

Locksus4160d ago

Wat. Releasing a new TES game every 4-5 years is considered milking?

JasonKCK4160d ago

Bethesda doesn't do yearly releases like COD. Where do get that at?

Mounce4159d ago

Bethesda saying this, Microsoft, Capcom, any major company, if they say "We have a new series", and this isn't Cynicism. It's TRUTH what Irish said, rofl.

It instantly means "Something else to Milk!" Just as with Fallout, or Capcom to Dragon's Dogma, as much as I love Dragon's Dogma, Capcom didn't think it'd sell well, they basically expected it to go into a garbage heap and be long forgotten and had minimal faith in the team. With it selling as it had, now they're like HRMMM, SEQUELITIS!!! HNNNNNNG! PROFITS!1!1!

The only thing I pray is, since Bethesda is only PUBLISHER...that the REAL Devs are not in any way forced or PRESSURED by these fuckers in their suits. Which would then cripple their creativity. Just as Warner Bros didn't pressure Rocksteady Studios behind Batman AA and AC. We see the result....Freedom and a great team = Great games. Giant corporations who view games as Profit and not Art or Creativity, will destroy and milk a series until it makes minimal or negative profit, then throw it aside.

Ducky4159d ago (Edited 4159d ago )

... ArkhamAsylum and ArkhamCity have a two year gap. That is usually the amount of time developers take to make a sequel, even when pressured.

So, I'm not sure why you picked that example.

Bethesda isn't really known for milking their franchises either.

Mounce4158d ago

@FatOldMan

Alright, let me rephrase, Bethesda know how to milk a buggy, outdated, flawed engine repetitively as where most developers come to refine their engines to a flawless state like Naughty Dog or Bungie or even Epic games w/ Gears of War.

Bethesda? They used the same engine for Oblivion, Fall Out 3 and New Vegas without really any optimization changes minus what at LEAST decent efforts that Obsidian did with New Vegas, which some would argue was a better game than what Bethesda made.

Personally, I just don't have a lot of faith in Bethesda, if that wasn't obvious already. Skyrim launching on PC as a petty console port with one of the worst interfaces was just another check off my list just as with id, on how some mighty types have fallen. I'll see what more they do though.

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-MD-4160d ago

Loved Dishonored.

I hope there are at least 2 years inbetween each entry. This isn't something I want to see every single year and be milked dry.

TitanUp4160d ago

still waiting to get dishonored when i have just a little more money. trying to get a new pc built

hiredhelp4160d ago

I personally loved this game i love a sequel just as long as bethesda doesnt have any involvement in Arkane Studios where development in concerned as they done a great job.

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein43d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga42d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo42d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken43d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN42d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199242d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia43d ago (Edited 43d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575643d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies42d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde42d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos43d ago (Edited 43d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai43d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken43d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Eonjay42d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger43d ago (Edited 43d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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EA And Sony Layoffs, Entertainment News And More Skewedcast

Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.

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EA - Continuing to evolve our business and teams

EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."

LG_Fox_Brazil50d ago

All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help

Jin_Sakai50d ago (Edited 50d ago )

2024 so far.

Feb ’28 Electronic Arts (EA) 670 (5%)
Feb ’24 PlayStation 900 (8%)
Feb ’24 Vice Media Group Several hundred
Feb ’24 Buzzfeed 16%
Feb ’24 NowThis 26 (50%)
Feb ’24 Paramount Global 800 (3%)
Feb ’24 SiriusXM 160 (3%)
Feb ’24 Snapchat 10%
Jan ’24 TechCrunch 8 + subscription product
Jan ’24 U.K.’s Channel 4 200
Jan ’24 Business Insider 8%
Jan ’24 Microsoft Gaming 1,900
Jan ’24 Riot Games 530
Jan ’24 Sports Illustrated Possibly all
Jan ’24 YouTube 100
Jan ’24 Pitchfork (Conde Nast) Undisclosed
Jan ’24 Universal Music Group Hundreds
Jan ’24 Discord 17%
Jan ’24 NBC News 50-100
Jan ’24 Audible 5%
Jan ’24 Google Hundreds
Jan ’24 Amazon Hundreds
Jan ’24 Duolingo 10%
Jan ’24 VideoAmp 20%

DATA AS OF FEB. 28, 2024

outsider162450d ago

Is it possible maybe this whole ai thing is in play?

just_looken50d ago

Another long list that skips over UPS cutting 12,000 jobs those workers as we know work without ac low pay and old box trucks but that company had to cut 12k jobs do too loosing billions of dollars year 2 year.

https://edition.cnn.com/202...

The greed and lack of transparency/oversight is disgusting.

Ups are still making bang but not enough for a golden boat fleet.

Remember we all use ups at some time even stuff in our stores this is going to be a huge issue gong forward i know in my area they removed half the state ups stores northern half least population got some 3rd party running packages now from minivans.

Sonic188149d ago

When I explan this I get called a troll 🤔 like wtf

thorstein49d ago

@just_looken

UPS is a different story altogether.

They are paying the people doing the actual work/ earning the money more and eliminating management.

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CrimsonWing6950d ago (Edited 50d ago )

You do realize around this time this happens all throughout many industries (not just the game industry), right? It has to do with taxes for these major companies, like tax subsidies for downsizing. You want to know a little secret? Around May or so you’ll see a spike in hiring…

It blows my mind that people are oblivious to corporate workings.

Andrew33650d ago

So over 25 huge companies cut jobs every year like this and it only got noticed this time?

CrimsonWing6950d ago (Edited 50d ago )

@Andrew336

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Google it up if you’re uninformed of how corporations work. Only gamers seem to live in a bubble and when they see things like crunch, acquisitions, and lay-offs they act like this is the only industry it happens to and how shocked they are about it.

Welcome to the real world, kid.

thorstein49d ago (Edited 49d ago )

EA CEO Wilson's total compensation was 20 million. Let's take away 19 million (I'm sure he can survive on 1 million.... somehow).

1 million is the salary of an in the chair developer @100,000 for 10 years.

He could earn 1 million a year.

And save the jobs of 15 in the chair devs for A DECADE (plus benefits) with ONE YEAR'S compensation.

RhinoGamer8850d ago

No Executive accountability or firings I see...

just_looken50d ago

Do not worry they will take over 40mill say sorry then get hired by playstation or xbox

blackblades49d ago

I heard Japan does it better, they do layoffs like what's happening with companies in the west. The higher ups also being agreeing to to lower there own salary. These MFs like jim and Phil isnt gonna do that they want that $

Sonic188150d ago

Like I said earlier, this is happening all around the gaming industry.

Petebloodyonion50d ago

The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.

TheColbertinator50d ago

EA is certainly among the worst,if not the worst

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