Well, yeah. I just imagine, especially the Bethesda of today would want to have another title they can milk for another decade.
But yes, they’d need the Bethesda from 12 years ago + 12 years of persistent improvement, to actually deliver something milkable.
This deserves an entirely separate rant, but to me, this already starts at the title, “Starfield”. It sounds like Astronomy Simulator 2024. Like no one had a vision other than “Fallout in Space”. And that would already have more of a premise than “Starfield” tells me.
I agree that lots of game companies do only have to care about the launch, but I disagree that this applies for Bethesda, because:
I agree with you on those points, as the pertain to Skyrim specifically. Bethesda was a different company 12 years ago.
Well, yeah. I just imagine, especially the Bethesda of today would want to have another title they can milk for another decade.
But yes, they’d need the Bethesda from 12 years ago + 12 years of persistent improvement, to actually deliver something milkable.
This deserves an entirely separate rant, but to me, this already starts at the title, “Starfield”. It sounds like Astronomy Simulator 2024. Like no one had a vision other than “Fallout in Space”. And that would already have more of a premise than “Starfield” tells me.