You gotta remember your EEE's. Embrace, Extend and Exterminate.

What the hell did they think was going to happen?

If you like your job and your company gets bought be a large corporation (or worse, private equity), immediately start working on your resume. the death spiral has begun.

Second great video game depression is here folks!

No shit

I recall seeing an in-depth retrospective of either Oblivion or Skyrim, and Todd's recurring defense of the dumbing down of the games was to avoid the state Bethesda was in during Morrowind's development, where the future of the company was very much uncertain, and where Todd was one of the folks not sure if they were going to have a job next month. I dunno about Todd himself, but I guess that line of thinking isn't present in the people with the power nowadays.

What about Microslop's vast history of poor management would have made this not the foreseen outcome?

Color me shocked. Big cooperation wrings out smaller cooperation for all it’s worth.

Amazing to learn that if you fire someone who knows how it works the works stop. Supply and demand or something. Maybe every economy “professor” should be fired annual from Business School. Might help redirect the invisible ham of the market 🍖

sorry but I'm not sure all those employees are necessary when Bethesda is just remastering fully finished games nowadays...

it saddens me that the drive and exploration that made companies like this big is being buried and not fostered. the gaming industry is so massively profitable that they could achieve exploration and job security simultaneously, but instead just end up overpaying clueless managers...

Ah. Your company has entered the Venture Capitolism stage. Your sacrifices will pump up your CEO's Golden Parachute just before he jumps out of the building.

This is the stage where it is best to get out. The building is coming down.