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Ryuu96 said:
That doesn't change what I said really, he is implying either one of those is real, if Starfield wasn't rushed then he is implying that the team didn't care, since we know it absolutely wasn't rushed and was the first thing they settled on then we are only left with the latter part of his assumption, that the team didn't care. The team who knows they weren't rushed would find that incredibly insulting. Mark Kern leaves BOTH possibilities open for being true, therefore, he is being insulting regardless, and a dick. |
No, we technically can't know that.
This is what's lost in your interpretation: you're already presuming Kern's mindset based on your personal determination that Starfield's shipping deadlines weren't "hasty" by default. Just b/c one of the biggest games of all time got ~10 months extra dev time doesn't translate the same between you, Bethesda, nor Kern himself. He could have a different mindset of how Bethesda was still wrestling with long overtime hours, scores of new Q/A issues to work through, unexpected hiccups with their new engine, etc. and that can still fit the first part (through his viewpoint). His bar for the "passionate team overworked" part could have a different threshold from yours.
Should he have avoided the "uncaring" portion in the either/or bit? Absolutely!
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