Phil Spencer, Todd Howard, Pete Hines and Major Nelson discuss the recent news of Bethesda joining Xbox and tell a few stories of working together.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
What a great talk.
Love Todd’s humor!
All I know is, Todd Howard's a rich man now, he doesn't have to work for the rest of his life now. Honestly, Skyrim was the last and ONLY Bathesda game I've ever played. Bethesda also doesn't own companies like Tangoworks and all that, so developers under that umbrella can always leave. But Skyrims the only game of there's I've ever played. To the average gamer, this may not matter, they still may have enough of a grudge with Microsoft that they still don't care. Look at where Rare is now compared to when they were owned by Nintendo. And as soon as they acuired Forza Horizon developer, Microsoft TOLD them, you're developing Fable now..... Uh, so when do we get to develop what we want. Microsoft has a history will taking over and causing issues, this may be no different.