Reasonable said:
largedarryl said:
Zkuq said:
It's not Bethesda, even the top line says so. I'd like to call you something, and although not that bad, it would most likely get me banned (and I wouldn't be too surprised if even this would :P). Thus I will not say it. Also, though not directly related to this: Bethesda is not making BRINK, Splash Damage is. Saying that Bethesda is acquiring id is like saying that... umm, a different scale but anyway, EA is acquiring Activision (both are publishers, even pretty equal size to most people). Or Crytek acquiring Free Radical Design (both are developers). This is more like EA acquiring Crytek (ie. a publishes acquiring a developer). Is ZeniMax a developer?
Anyway, didn't Take Two release Oblivion? What's ZeniMax's role in Bethesda's games? Is ZeniMax a developer and Bethesda just one of their dev teams?
As long as Bethesda, or anything else, doesn't influence id's games in a negative way (ie. anything gameplay-related from Bethesda), I'm fine with this. |
From the Bethesda/Zenimax website, it seems like Zenimax is some kind of a marketing company. I have never really been able to understand what role they really have with games because they don't publish anything.
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I could be wrong, but I think Bethesda set up Zenimax themselves as an unbrella within which they could aquire other companies more easily. I'm sure I read that somewhere when Zenimax first appeared. I'm sure it explicitly exists to make it easy for Bethesda to merge/buy companies.
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Yes, that's exactly my understanding too. Just adding that they possibly thought that a parent company (Zenimax) could venture into other areas of entertainment, like movies and toys and stuff, kinda like LucasArts and Dreamworks (in the beginning).
