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.
I guess what I said could be read as a defense but that was not my intention. I'm just attempting to provide additional clarity around who the bad actors are in this story, not reduce any amount of hatred for them. People often mix up the two entities which I suspect is exactly why zenimax used "Bethesda" in the name of their game distribution and operations corp to begin with.
I see it as a big umbrella where the pieces are still connected, in much the same way that Activision/Blizzard is.
Come to think of it the Microsoft octopus reaches there as well and the management that rules over all of it is more than fine with the status quo of worker abuse, in fact participating themselves.
That's fair. That's why I was surprised that MS recognized the QA union that formed under the zenimax umbrella earlier this year.