On 2/21/24 09:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's good to see that, despite its acquisition by Microsoft a few
years ago, Bethesda hasn't changed. It's still milking its old IPs for
every penny it can get.

Case in point, the recently announced "Fallout SPECIAL Anthology",*
which ships a bunch of old "Fallout" games (1,2,3,4, New Vegas,
Tactics, '76) in a box designed to look like an atom-bomb. Or rather,
it ships with a bunch of game-codes, since actually shipping the games
- even old ones like these - on media is just too old hat, I guess.

And, look, there's really nothing wrong with this sort of compilation, although it hardly seems necessary. The Fallout games have all been
given away for free so often that I can't imagine there are many
gamers interested in the franchise who HAVEN'T acquired a copy yet.
But, fine, some people like 'special editions' like that, and if the
plastic tat (Bethesda assures us the 'atom bomb' box has been safely disarmed, har har har!) that comes with this version is of value to
them, then more power to those gamers.

I just wish these sort of re-re-re-releases didn't seemingly form the
bulk of Bethesda's income. Or that there was more value to the
offerings (oh wait, it also comes with seven trading cards. I stand
corrected about the value thing. ;-). Or didn't suspect that these new 'SPECIAL Edition' re-releases are a Trojan horse for Bethesda to
squeeze in a new version that breaks compatibility with old mods (and conveniently adds a market for paid mods).

Bethesda games were always flawed, but it used to be that you could at
least count on their releases giving you value for money. But recently
it seems the games are only valuable to Bethesda for how much money
they can squeeze out of their players...

* Bethesda announced it here: https://bethesda.net/en/article/1eZA5DWbSdyp9JZt9Bi00H/fallout-special-anthology-pre-orders-available

The Skyrim effect?
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On 2/21/2024 7:42 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's good to see that, despite its acquisition by Microsoft a few
years ago, Bethesda hasn't changed. It's still milking its old IPs for
every penny it can get.

You say that like it wasn't the point of the acquisition.... (Why would
MS need to buy another company to produce new and original games?)

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