Bethesda being owned by Microsoft means they’re tainted by the influence of shareholders now. The decay is inevitable. Wall street ruins all studios with time.
The shareholders demand a return on their investment, so they demand that every game be no less than a billion dollar hit. This is where infinite growth shareholder economics gets us in the end. It is toxic to any art medium.
I’ll take worse anything over a blurry vaseline smeared image during motion. The fact that devs of high speed games like shooters think this is the most acceptable compromise is bewildering.
They’ll do that anyway. They engage only in ideological proclamation, not critical analysis. They think truth is dictated by consensus.
You deal with these people by disenfranchising them and removing their opportunities to gain power, not by engaging them directly in debate. Never engage with an echo chamber if you don’t want the ideology of that echo chamber to infect others like a virus.
because windows is doing everything in their power to ruin their OS with privacy violations and ads. I would switch to Linux yesterday if my favorite games worked on it.
I saw an anecdote from someone who used to work there and they said their infrastructure and resources were outdated as hell. Basically zero support or investment from leadership. Those corpos are intentionally just trying to milk them and the customers dry before total collapse or a buyout.
You can see every moment a senior dev went to management and asked for time or money to develop a certain type of interaction and were told no every single time.
Bethesda being owned by Microsoft means they’re tainted by the influence of shareholders now. The decay is inevitable. Wall street ruins all studios with time.