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.
Shit started to stink once
got his hands on everything. Still maintain that it's all good Arena thru Morrowind, but Oblivion is when the Todd-i-fication starts to set in. Nice to know the company hurls chunks regardless.
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And your shitty outdated game engine (which was still used up to Fallout 4 lmao) makes every look like a potato.
Starfield's engine is just the same one they've been updating since then too lol
I don't think there's anything specifically wrong with doing that, but it's especially weird for a studio that makes games as big and profitable as they do.
Idk, maybe I'm simple minded but oblivion and skyrim are really fun and enjoyable
I absolutely do not trust bethesda to be anything other than horribly orientalist if they actually went for that depiction
Paid horse armor DLC should have been the end of it. It wasn't. Years later we got the skullduggery and petite bourgeoisie consumer tribalism of Fallout 76, where spending money on that garbage became a status symbol for the power-players that kept playing it. It didn't end there, of course, but the slide into worse and worse greed lines up with the employee abuse and masked bigotry of the corporate empire.
Now the worst part is that your average cretin G*mer will double down on their support for the company solely because they're "based" for bullying a trans employee.
At least that's an ideologically consistent horrible reason. Still disgusting, of course.
My prior experience in discussions of worker abuse/trauma while working with the Mortal Kombat franchise, the "Multiversus" corporate octopus memberberry dispensing machine, and other game issues has left me prepared for some mix of salad-bar-picked kind-of-leftist arguments to justify buying the product and stamping out any bad feelings about worker abuse, psychologically manipulative monetization grifts, or other issues under whatever convenient pretenses.
Yeah that's annoying when people just go that hard into defending their treats.
Yeah, some go hard, such as when an established user with significant post history told me to (CW: gore, suicide)
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slit my own throat and die because I insisted that Mortal Kombat's artists weren't coddled or privileged or otherwise unworthy to report the psychological harm they experienced after being forced to experience emotionally traumatic slaughterhouse/snuff footage to make the treat that much more bazinga for the consumer in order to keep their jobs.
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It was based on the belief that Mortal Kombat artists could easily "take their talent elsewhere" and therefore it was cool and good to obligate them to watch psychologically traumatic videos to feed the hogs with greater authenticity. When I refused to budge that worker abuse was worker abuse, that's where the
came out, and immediately after that, crybully whining about how I was uncivil because I refused to acknowledge his oh so very wise point that the artists were supposedly so coddled and pampered that they could easily find work anywhere else but chose to stay.
I used to enjoy Mortal Kombat when the fatalities were silly and over the top and even campy. When it became "realistic" hog feeding I lost all interest.
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They still post regularly and frankly I wonder why they weren't banned after that. Even their avatar is
associated in the worst way, so that checks out too.