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Michael Pachter: Bethesda wanted to be acquired by Microsoft 3 years ago
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Reality Czar
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Wonder if the terrible debacle of the Fallout 76 release is why this fell through. Or necessitated it?
ShaikhCroft
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It's Michael not Michelle.
jakinov
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Doubt it. To some gamers that was a big deal but overall it's just one of the many projects and it still sold okay and still probably makes money today for them to keep supporting it. Microsoft probably isn't going to care about one blip and they probably aren't going to sell their company because they didn't make as much profit as they wanted.
driqe
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Zenimax
Zeroing
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It’s a meme of something Mariah Carey said once
intbal
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It's actually a common offhand joke by comedians going back many decades.
Zeroing
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Oh dear god, nothing is original !!! Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
hybrid_birth
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Zeroing
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So I am confused, because a lot of people were saying MS saved Bethesda. So Bethesda used MS and saved themselves ?
MasterCornholio
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I honestly believe they needed the funds so they made those deals with Sony. Microsoft was always planning to buy them sooner or later to bolster gamepass.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
ANIMAL1975
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Patcher is predicting past events now!
Shit, haven't realized that he's looking fecking old... do i look like that too?Idk, look at that hair.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Looking fabulous!Idk, look at that hair.
LisaMariaMartin
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Name one.
Pagusas
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Worse. I'm sorry.
The Infectious Paradox
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DaGwaphics
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makaveli60
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Microsoft wanted to be acquired by Bethesda confirmed.
driqe
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wasnt that already confirmed when they sold to microsoft
Barakov
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jhjfss
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MasterCornholio
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ManaByte
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Wouldn't be shocked if he said the same thing when Netflix ditched DVDs for streaming.
bender
What time is it?
I've had my doubts about the viability of the service long term but those are now erased.
MasterCornholio
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Definitely not dumb but it will never replace more traditional forms of revenue. Many publishers still need their games to sell at MSRP to be viable.
Clear
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Well if its funding they needed, why couldn't they have gotten it directly off of MS by offering them exclusivity? Its not like MS aren't interested in, or don't see the value of timed exclusive deals?
The same sort of thing happened with Playground. They started making noises about going multi-platform and shortly thereafter MS buys them outright.
The point is its a way of reminding MS of the value of their services without being aggressively turncoat about it. They just effectively say "We're really happy with our close partnership with Xbox, but we want to try X, Y, and Z". If you're not interested, fine, we'll keep doing business as before, but the guys at Sony are showing an interest in backing these projects, so..."
vaibhavpisal
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Is this the reason why Zenimax was buying studios left and right using shady tactics? To bolster their value?
www.neogaf.com
Is it well known how terrible Bethesda and ZeniMax are?
After reading about the Prey 2/Human Head/Bethesda/ZeniMax situation, I found out how awful Bethesda's publishing side is. If you have any qualms with the thread title, just read though the thread at the link and click on any additional links in it, particularly this open letter by lead game...
This.
The ugly elephant in the room is that being a third party publisher is tough. First parties don't sell so much that you can just hang up your dev kit and go home, and that's with the clout and marketing potential of having a Sony or Microsoft behind it.
If you're an EA or an Activision, maybe you have flagship franchises that help support you if a title performs below expectation, but there's only one Rockstar. Zenimax can't afford 7 years between releases, and when you factor in high quality but underperforming published releases, it doesn't take much of a guess as to why they wanted to sell.
This is only going to get worse going forward. It's an industry issue, not a problem with any one publisher or title.
ANIMAL1975
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Zeroing
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My personal take on this is, MS having difficulties building (from the ground up) studios. They knew some studios were favorable to be bough and they bough them. I think that no gaming developer wants risk to loose their freedom unless they are offered a ton of money. But them again this is just us expeculating. We really do not know what went behind behind closed doors.
trikster40
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Hell, who wouldn’t want to be bought out by Microsoft? They overpay for everything, and you never have to work again.
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