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Originally Posted by hometeam
Money grab by bethesda. Targeted at Console users as PC users have had a game better than the remaster since the original came out. (mods)
PC users that own the full game already, get a free copy. This is done so that modders wont just stick to the 'old' version, and instead, have some incentive to mod on the new version.
This allows Bethesda to port some of these mods to consoles, which they do via there own distribution system (which is DWARFED by nexus and steam) so that they can market to these customers, using the manpower of volunteers who distribute that work with no caveats and for free via other platforms.
I'm all for making money and all, but this is a straight up shit money grab and people are going to fall for it. Its all based around developers owning the consoles ecosystem so that they can suck as much money as possible from those users. These users often do not know better, as they are constantly fed misinformation from Game Publishers, Hardware makers, and game media that all have vested interest in keeping them uninformed.
Bethesda has been going the way of EA and Ubisoft for several years, and here we are.
GG.
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I am always entertained when you rant about these things, because I feel the same way you do. I just have this business side of me, where I live in the real world every day, that pushes me back from the ledge to go on the same rants.
I wish every game company would follow the line of making things better and being more transparent about certain decisions, but they never will be. They are in the business of making money first, entertaining us second, and giving a shit about the end user after they buy the product about 999,999th.
The same thing happens in every platform with every company. Valve is such a huge problem child with such shit. Look at Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Or any version of any multi-player they have right now. Cheats are rampant. There are so many holes in their coding that never get addressed to eliminate cheating. They develop VAC as an anti-cheat software that doesn't work. They develop an "Overwatch" system to allow experienced gamers the chance to detect hackers for them, that doesn't really work all that well because users have figured out how to not cheat just enough to circumvent the rules that dictate a player actually getting overwatched.
Why not investigate the scripts and close the holes in the code? Because banning a user basically means that this user will buy yet another copy of the game, and a new set of useless gun skins for said account, and continue the money making cycle. There is money in at least allowing "some" cheating to occur that can be caught at some point.
That's on top of the shit you've already mentioned as problems with gaming right now. And, according to everything I've seen from Valve and other developers, they are going to continue to focus as much as they can on the social/multiplayer aspect of gaming with ongoing DLC content packs, and less on the single-player one-and-done games. So, the problem isn't going away, its going to get way worse.