<em>Doom</em>, <em>Fallout</em>, <em>Elder Scrolls</em> and more become MS properties in reported $7.5B deal.
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Microsoft purchases Bethesda Softworks in industry-changing acquisition
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Wow. This is actually great news! Bethesda could start releasing great games again.
And since Kinect is dead... no Kinect only titles. *cough* Rare. *cough*
And since Kinect is dead... no Kinect only titles. *cough* Rare. *cough*
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Dont know how this will play out but if i get to blow up clippy with a mininuke that might be ok
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Wow, really excited about this actually. Bethesda has really languished in terms of management, but Microsoft could get them back to making games and not just re-re-re-releasing Skyrim all the time.
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Interesting that acquisition was somehow a better value for MS than just moneyhatting exclusivity or timed exclusivity on a game-by-game or property-by-property basis.
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This is... potentially huge.
Thinking of the IPs that are included here, I can see DOOM, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls (and maybe Wolfenstein) staying multi-platform, while the others go Xbox/WIN exclusive.
Thinking of the IPs that are included here, I can see DOOM, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls (and maybe Wolfenstein) staying multi-platform, while the others go Xbox/WIN exclusive.
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Hopefully MS will whip Bethesda into a better shape, because right now it's just embarrassing.
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Seems like the Xbox division is able to think more than 2 years out now, and as costly as this acquisition is, one or two Elderscrolls and Fallout releases will probably pay off a lot of it.
I can also see some console only people having to buy an Xbox, because frankly, Fallout or Skyrim offer enough great content that you can sell consoles (or PCs) for them.
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Had to spend all the money saved on the failed TikTok acquisition on something.
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It is truly odd to read an article of "Massive Software Giant Acquires Long Beloved Gaming Studio" and have the reaction be positive. I happen to think it is positive as well as Microsoft has done a pretty good job and Bethesda...not so much lately.
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Fact 1: Microsoft now owns the rights to Fallout
Fact 2: Microsoft owns Obsidian Entertainment
...you see where I am going with this...
Fact 2: Microsoft owns Obsidian Entertainment
...you see where I am going with this...
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So, I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. Right now, all I can say is, at least it wasn't AT&T that bought Bethesda.....
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Satya Nadella doesn't care about XBox the hardware. He cares about platforms. This is a platform play. Ensuring the long term health of XBox as a platform.
He's a very smart CEO.
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Ooooo this is actually very exciting news. I think Bethesda has been coasting for a while now.
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Microsoft also purchased InXile, so along with Obsidian they have the entire Black Isle/Interplay team. Maybe that means we’ll get another real Fallout game. None of this Bethesda bullshit.
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It probably won't. The few times they have talked about Starfield they mentioned that some of the tech they intend to use for TES6 will be developed/tested for Starfield.
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If this can straighten out the mess that Bethesda has made with some of it's properties, this will be awesome. I'd just hate to see the games become "corporatized" with releases of the same product over and over again with minimal changes.
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Xbox is not even close to a monopoly (they even aren't the biggest player). And on Windows the market leader is Steam, not Microsoft.
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Yeah, perhaps the only other one that would be viewed positively would be if Microsoft decided to purchase EA and clean-house its management...
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Microsoft: okay, we've spent 100 bajillion dollars getting you the games you want.
Us: hang on, I've almost beat my high-score in flappy bird
Us: hang on, I've almost beat my high-score in flappy bird
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I'm much more concerned about mods than the UI they ship, since the players always make the best UIs anyway...
Not sure how much I wanna play TES VI without mods...
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MikeSafari
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ZeniMax also owns id Software, which means maybe we'll get some actually-good games from them now?
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Maybe a proper finished version of KOTOR 2? *daydream*
(Yes I'm aware of the content restoration mod but I'm talking full-on finished by Obsidian.)
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Sooooooooo... I wonder if MS have heard the story about how the devs at Bethesda managed to make Morrowind into an interesting game despite Todd Howard’s involvement?
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