I mean I'm a fan of elder scrolls. What's going to happen it its development cycle?
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I mean if it got to 9 years between games, that eould be a big improvement for TES. Skyrim came out in 2011.
Exactly. What's going to happen? 30 yr dev cycles?
The death of one-off mainstream game releases and live services made out of everything. Hope I'm not right.
I guess Bethesda is banking on there being more Bethesda RPG fans than TES specific fans. Bethesda in space is coming this year, after all. Which is good in a way IMO, because it keeps things somewhat fresh.
Yet they're the ones making a new flight simulator while everyone was expecting them to stick to the current one and make it better over time for at least 10 years (as Microsoft said)
Yeah I mean the trend has been obvious for years now, whether you look at GTA or Counterstrike. The times where you released a game, the game was now finished and you move to the next one are long over.
If games will take so long to create, we will probably also see price increases. They will have to fund that development time in some way. I think I do prefer the games like Skyrim where they did take their time to develop the whole world with a broad storyline and many small things that you can do, instead of rushing out a game in a year or two that has no replay value after playing the main story once.
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Yeah, it's more like 8 years now.
Sounds like Microsoft is about to find out the hard way.