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"Hines, Bethesda's former vice president of marketing and PR, left Bethesda in 2023, three years after it was acquired by Microsoft."
Bethesda was a smaller company that was bought out by a much larger one (or, in this particular case, it was a smaller company whose slightly larger parent company was bought out by a much larger one). So, of course, "getting damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused, whatever word you want to use" is par for the course in such situations. There is absolutely nothing surprising about any of this.
And yet, smaller companies still sell out to bigger ones, hoping they might be the ones to buck the trend and that only good things will happen to them in the aftermath. It would be funny to an outsider like me, if it wasn't so tragically banal.
Micro$hit sucks, as usual, as does every similar big company who likes to hoover up smaller companies like Bethesda.
Welcome to the new "selling out == doom" tag. I think I got most of the posts I've made in the past decades that even tangentially touch on my lamentation and derision of game companies being bought by other game companies (or companies that like to badly playact at being game companies). That said, I'll (probably) be going back through this new tag later and fixing a bunch of broken lj-embeds of Youtube videos and links that still point to posts on my old LiveJournal instead of the Dreamwidth equivalent posts, but that's not something I'm going to do now.
Bethesda was a smaller company that was bought out by a much larger one (or, in this particular case, it was a smaller company whose slightly larger parent company was bought out by a much larger one). So, of course, "getting damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused, whatever word you want to use" is par for the course in such situations. There is absolutely nothing surprising about any of this.
And yet, smaller companies still sell out to bigger ones, hoping they might be the ones to buck the trend and that only good things will happen to them in the aftermath. It would be funny to an outsider like me, if it wasn't so tragically banal.
Micro$hit sucks, as usual, as does every similar big company who likes to hoover up smaller companies like Bethesda.
Welcome to the new "selling out == doom" tag. I think I got most of the posts I've made in the past decades that even tangentially touch on my lamentation and derision of game companies being bought by other game companies (or companies that like to badly playact at being game companies). That said, I'll (probably) be going back through this new tag later and fixing a bunch of broken lj-embeds of Youtube videos and links that still point to posts on my old LiveJournal instead of the Dreamwidth equivalent posts, but that's not something I'm going to do now.
