FromSoft need to be worried.

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HoloDust said:

Nah - they keep doing their own thing and they are best at it - their "Souls" ares not defined by combat, but superb level designs and worldbuilding that no one has managed to match.
They are evolving in their own pace - long ago they said they are not ready to do full blown open world RPG - so they focused on making open world Souls, aka ER.
Eventually, they will get to full open world RPG, that still incorporates same basic Souls design.

Hopefully they never change that mindset - they got where they are by doing their thing and not caring about industry trends.

So their end goal is to do what they set out with Demons Souls to do and make a Skyrim game but they iterate on the combat first and then add in the rest. When you put it that way, that's actually a fantastic idea. Hopefully they take questing inspiration from CDPR and do what Larian does with characters when they get to that point.