Yes, I have played Bethesda games for decades, going all the way back to Elder Scrolls 1: Arena.
Yes, I play Elder Scrolls Online even to this day, though I am now reconsidering that.
That does not and should not have any consequence whatsoever when it comes to my, or anyone else's, opinion when it comes to how fucked up Bethesda/Zenimax are as corporations, and the corporate ownership at Microsoft for that matter.
My interest in Starfield has diminished significantly and the hype wave is already putting me off. Yes, it's only one individual's story and not the first from the company, but I'm not 
enough to LARP as a perfect logical machine that only does perfectly Rational(tm) calculations regarding whether I should care about something or not.
I expect Hexbear to have a lot of "let people enjoy things" discourse about Starfield in the upcoming weeks and months, and a lot of it will ride on the "everyone does these bad things in game development" thought terminating cliche that primarily serves as a palate cleanser so the consumer can avoid feeling as much guilt or disgust for what they're now consuming.
Fuck that.
And fuck that corporate empire.
In a recently-dropped YouTube video, former Elder Scrolls Online Developer and Bethesda employee Leona Faren claims that her employee health coverage was “held hostage” in an effort to force her out of the company. (CW: Deadnaming, gaslighting, bullying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kglNioOuK8
In addition to this, Faren shared screenshots and recordings detailing frequent misgendering in the workplace and establishing a clear history of transphobia.
When the time came for Faren to take time off for gender-affirming procedures, the company tried to push her out. Only after taking the complaint to Bethesda HR was Faren given a severance package to cover her healthcare expenses. But the money came at a cost: Faren was placed in a position of having to choose between the money she needed for gender-affirming care, and having the right to sue the company for discrimination.
Now, Faren is speaking out against the company and taking her painful experience public. Like too many trans employees working in corporate climates, Faren was outed at work, disrespected, and made to feel like a liability simply for attempting to access gender-affirming treatment using employee healthcare. When she requested that a public profile picture from pre-transition be updated, she was dismissed and her request was refused. Even after a legal name change, the higher-ups continued to refer to Faren by her deadname.
That wasn’t all: Starting in 2021, Faren was repeatedly locked out of her work accounts, in an alleged attempt to force her to fall behind on projects in the hope that her firing would now have justification. She was excluded from larger projects, told she was a “slow” worker, and ignored by HR. In 2022, she was put under a “performance improvement” plan. Finally, after a hostile campaign to make Faren feel as uncomfortable in the workplace as possible, she was allegedly bullied into accepting the resignation package.
“I signed because I was terrified,” the developer explained. “I wish I didn’t. I wish I wasn’t so scared.”
EDIT: Added CW for some of the events talked about in the video.
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Corporate doesn't cover that in orientation.
Employees are expected to be unaware and come to HR for its falsely claimed purpose.
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Very similar
wriggle around in 
that claim that difficulty options or even accessibility options are a "waste of resources" and somehow threaten their treats.
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I see this shit everywhere, including here: "The way the game is intended to be played is Ultra Hardcore MLG Prepare To Die Edition and everyone in the world should play that way or they're having badwrongfun, also any attempt to have accessibility options takes away from the quality of my treats."
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Agreed.
I wish such arguments never showed up in ostensibly leftist spaces, but they do, because
Yup, even here
I remember being shocked that there was a pushback against SF6's modern controls on this very website. It was only one person but still. I didn't expect it out of people who post on Hexbear.
IT IS NOT THE WAY IT IS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED EVERYONE IN THE WORLD MUST PLAY THE WAY I DEMAND THEY PLAY