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Ryuu96 on 07 May 2024
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shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

Right now I'm pessimistic as fuck, what's next?

  • Every single Activision studio working only on COD - Already happening Tbf.
  • All Blizzard works on is Diablo, Overwatch and WoW - New IPs cancelled.
  • Turn 10 kills Forza Motorsport and works exclusively on Forza Horizon.
  • Obsidian and InXile become Fallout only studios.
  • Ninja Theory, Double Fine, Compulsion are gone.
  • The Initiative closed if Perfect Dark isn't a major hit.
  • MachineGames is closed if Indiana Jones isn't a hit or turned ID Software Sweden.

They probably got ABK, looked at the profit margins of COD and thought "Why the fuck are we wasting time on these smaller creative projects? Just put everyone on the big money-making hits and bump the profit margins up, profit is unacceptable unless it's a big number!"

Honestly that one wouldn't be so bad as long as they traded back and forth. Bethesda would be freed up from Fallout to focus on Elder Scrolls and Starfield games, meanwhile Obsidian could trade Fallout back and forth between them, while one is working on a Fallout game, the other could work on one of their own IP like Wasteland or a Clockwork sequel for inXile, or Outer Worlds or Avowed sequels for Obsidian. Would only turn bad if they were forced into Fallout development only.

Obsidian is a studio with like 5 creative leads and constantly working on multiple projects at once, I think turning them into a Fallout only studio will absolutely be bad for them creatively, likely lead to creative clashes and people leaving, what do the directors of The Outer Worlds, Avowed, Grounded do when the entire studio is put onto Fallout? That's pretty much a demotion to them.

It might be fine for InXile since they seemingly only have one team but still who knows if InXile even wants to work on Fallout. Josh Sawyer and Feargus are down for Fallout but I don't think they'd like to do it at the expense of everything else, at the expense of putting a bullet in Grounded, The Outer Worlds, Avowed/Pillars of Eternity.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 07 May 2024