Friendly reminder that Obsidian receives no royalties from Fallout: New Vegas, and lost their monetary bonus from Bethesda because FNV’s metacritic score was 1 point too low.
Unfriendly reminder that Bethesda bribed MetaCritic to keep it below the minimum.
friendly unfriendly reminder that Zenimax (Bethesda’s parent company) does this all the time and it’s their primary method of acquiring new studios.
They contract a game, then put a bunch of payments the studio would need to continue existing behind (appearingly) reasonable walls, then sabotage them. The result is either a studio that ships the game but can’t stay open, at which point Zenimax offers to buy them, or a studio that can’t finish the game, at which point Zenimax offers to buy them
Friendly reminder that Zenimax also forced FNV out the door early despite Obsidian saying they needed a couple more months for bugs and the only reason Obsidian is still around is because their Kickstarter for Pillars of Eternity was successful.
Zenimax also claim that the guy who invented the Oculus Rift starting with prototypes in 2011 in his parents garage actually stole the information and basically said he is too stupid to actually make it himself. They’re flinging shit that they know can be disproven by him presenting his original prototypes in the lawsuit because they know they can hurt his public image that way.
Zenimax is a shitty, money grubbing company with few if any morals. Fuck them.
The More You Know….
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