[HNisCurated]

Another nail in the coffin for AAA developers.

When indie developers encourage you to crack their game and make mods you get a different community.

Bethesda is too old, it's become to big and famous, it's yet another soulless game studio.

I'll stick with my sub 10$ indie games. I haven't gotten bored yet.

[theandrewbailey]

Bethesda Softworks (the publisher) has been rather lawyer happy over the past few years. They went after Mojang over the word Scrolls.

Bethesda Game Studios (the developer) isn't much better. As if poor writing and re-using a rotten engine isn't bad enough, they've routinely dabbled in paid mods.

[davesmith1983]

It is a real shame because I played the hell out of Skyrim, Oblivion and Doom 2016 (one of the best games to come out in the last 5 years) and own several copies of each.

I actively avoided almost everything from them since and I am just hoping they don't ruin Doom Eternal with the nonsense, Id is developing it and soo far they haven't been affected by much of the usual Bethesda bullshit.

[erk__]

It should probably be noted that Bethesda Softworks is owned by Zenimax. Though Zenimax was founded by the founders of Bethesda. Zenimaxes board concist of a Lawyer, a former baseball player, a real estate manager and a movie producer. They have again and again made poor choices when it comes to drm, but they have removed Denvou from both Doom and Rage 2 some time after release.

[liability]

> "a former baseball player,"

Now you have me wondering about the "former baseball player joins the corporate world and feels lost in it" subplot of Prey 2017 (published by Bethesda.)