Vault Dweller
Commissar, Red Star Studio
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I think it's very safe to assume that Bethesda isn't planning to abandon TES like ever (no reason to expect people to stop playing open-world fantasy games, is there?) and does indeed have plans or at least general direction for the next 2-3 games. Not saying the leak is real, of course.These guys didn't even know what they wanted to do after Fallout 4 was released. Talk about plans for 2030 = fake fake fake. No game developer works with those kinds of time horizons.
Because Elder Scrolls is a very flexible fantasy franchise that can easily shift from generic to weird to vikings with dragons to exotic (the jungle) or demonic (the daedra planes) or anything they need or that's popular at the moment. It's basically Fantasy: The Game, so to wonder if people would still play it in 2030 is to wonder if people would still play fantasy games in 2030.For a developer of entertainment software it's unrealistic. How can you even know that people will want to play Elder Scrolls games in 2030?
And yet Marvel had planned 4 phases of movie releases, from 2008 to 2028.Disclosure: I worked at Intel, a hardware manufacturer in a much more predictable market that requires long-term logistical planning, in the late 2000s. Even there, there weren't concrete release schedules for CPUs going beyond 2014 or so. That's why this sounds absurd to to me.
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