I personally see the company shifting with him gone, Microsoft will probably take the helm fully if no one else steps up inside the company.
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blackforce
so what.

Will have an impact on some of us on the games we like to play. Possibly means Bethesda titles may get more streamlined”dumbed down”. For example look at what happened with BioWare once it’s founders retired, EA came in and it was not for the better. So that is why the so what that he passed is important.

Zenimax got sold off last year along with Bethesda. Bethesda is a Microsoft product now, for what it's worth.

Brad_Hawthorne
Zenimax got sold off last year along with Bethesda. Bethesda is a Microsoft product now, for what it's worth.

Yup I watched that happen, I am just hoping by some crazy miracle Microsoft take the Fallout IP and says to Obsidian here make the most amazing Fallout ever made.

Noodle 1
I mean Besthesda games have already been dumbed down so if it does happen, I doubt it's because of Microsoft but probably because of Todd Howard. Just look at Fallout 3 and NV compared to Fallout 4 and 76. FO4 is more of an FPS with RPG elements than an actual RPG and replayability is so limited because of that. 
Microsoft has already said that they're looking at a more hands-off approach with Zenimax compared with their other game studio acquisitions and there are rumors that Zenimax as a holding company is going to be replaced by a new company called "Vault". I'm personally really excited for the future of Zenimax/Microsoft since it'll mean Bethesda and other studios under Zenimax will have more access to resources than previously and it also opens up the possibility of cooperation between various game studios such as Bethesda and Obsidian (creators of New Vegas).

NV was all Obsidian, thats why it is probably one of the best Fallouts in 3rd person to date. I retired from the AAA industry, have seen many a great studios change ownership, and seen what happens when the CEO/CEO's step down to retire or die. If the studio does not put one of their own up to the front to take the helm that is loyal to the studio, the new owners will then step in and put one of their own or someone who is a yes man in charge. As for Todd Howard he does not get much say, Zenimax did along with whoever was the CEO/Studio head of Bethesda. It was put down to make them more marketable aka they wanted to sell. It was not Howard who came up with the micro transactions. In order to sell a publisher or a studio even if you have amazing IP's in your portfolio you still have to convince a bigger company to buy you with annual revenue. That has been done with the microtransactions and subscriptions for their games. Their annual revenue skyrocketed thus Microsoft came in and said mine here is the money we are buying you. Just how things go in the AAA Industry and has for a long time. Then if someone important gets in the way of what the new owners want, a production will be rushed so much major bugs are there and they force that person to leave/retire or just fire them. Look at what EA did with Ultima 9 that was one messy huge mess. Then putting a yes man at the helm, look at bioware, the CEO of EA has helped run that studio to the ground. Having no clue how game engines work, forcing them to use frostbite an engine not made for RPG's, forcing culture changes yeah another mess. Then look at one studio that said FU to the CEO of EA we are going to use the engine we want to Apex Legends a success overnight by a studio that still had someone loyal to that studio at the head. 

Noodle 1

donta1979

Noodle 1
I mean Besthesda games have already been dumbed down so if it does happen, I doubt it's because of Microsoft but probably because of Todd Howard. Just look at Fallout 3 and NV compared to Fallout 4 and 76. FO4 is more of an FPS with RPG elements than an actual RPG and replayability is so limited because of that. 
Microsoft has already said that they're looking at a more hands-off approach with Zenimax compared with their other game studio acquisitions and there are rumors that Zenimax as a holding company is going to be replaced by a new company called "Vault". I'm personally really excited for the future of Zenimax/Microsoft since it'll mean Bethesda and other studios under Zenimax will have more access to resources than previously and it also opens up the possibility of cooperation between various game studios such as Bethesda and Obsidian (creators of New Vegas).

NV was all Obsidian, thats why it is probably one of the best Fallouts in 3rd person to date. I retired from the AAA industry, have seen many a great studios change ownership, and seen what happens when the CEO/CEO's step down to retire or die. If the studio does not put one of their own up to the front to take the helm that is loyal to the studio, the new owners will then step in and put one of their own or someone who is a yes man in charge. As for Todd Howard he does not get much say, Zenimax did along with whoever was the CEO/Studio head of Bethesda. It was put down to make them more marketable aka they wanted to sell. It was not Howard who came up with the micro transactions. In order to sell a publisher or a studio even if you have amazing IP's in your portfolio you still have to convince a bigger company to buy you with annual revenue. That has been done with the microtransactions and subscriptions for their games. Their annual revenue skyrocketed thus Microsoft came in and said mine here is the money we are buying you. Just how things go in the AAA Industry and has for a long time. Then if someone important gets in the way of what the new owners want, a production will be rushed so much major bugs are there and they force that person to leave/retire or just fire them. Look at what EA did with Ultima 9 that was one messy huge mess. Then putting a yes man at the helm, look at bioware, the CEO of EA has helped run that studio to the ground. Having no clue how game engines work, forcing them to use frostbite an engine not made for RPG's, forcing culture changes yeah another mess. Then look at one studio that said FU to the CEO of EA we are going to use the engine we want to Apex Legends a success overnight by a studio that still had someone loyal to that studio at the head. 

Are you saying that the internet has been ****ting on the wrong person/entity for FO4 and FO76?

FO4 was Todd Leading the way, the microtransactions was thanks to Zenimax, FO 76 was not Todd at all he was just put up front to sell it vocally, once they got it jimmy rigged with the atlas to make it online, it was handed to Bethesda Austin and Zenimax called the shots fully subscriptions, atomic shop, atoms yeah...

Honestly Rip though, gonna be some changes

agreed, R.I.P. Mr Altman. 

Noodle 1
I mean Besthesda games have already been dumbed down 

Yeah even Microsoft couldn't make Beth's design doctrine any more dumbed down than the current rock bottom Beth is at.