No, no, your a 100% right. But Bethesda isn’t a small studio making RPG’s for a large sports publisher/developer. They don’t just maoe bug filled messes, they also publish them, and wven their own flops often still make more than enough money that they don’t have to worry. Much as I hated Starfield, it still made a lot of money for being a hollow Skyrim clone in space.

Arkane was a tragedy, a company that made it’s name from immersive sims forced to make a multiplayer, live-serivce game was destined to fail from inception.

I’d like to make this clear, I don’t like Bethesda for a lot of reasons I won’t get into right now, if there is one thing they’re still somehow good at is making money. Microsoft has never cared about review scores so long as their quarterly earnings were met/blown away.

Bethesda does a lot more than make one or 2 games a decade, they’re a successful publisher and recently a questionable developer (personally hated Starfield and Fallout 76). They have more in common with EA than they do Bioware in a business sense.

No, Bioware was sold off by the founders to a private equity firm who eventually sold them off to EA, a company who even then was notorious for shutting game studios down arbitrarily. A sports game company that killed game companies for less, they were always an odd fit and the fact EA kept them for as long as they did was an anomaly.

Bethesda ownership wise and structurally speaking has remained the same from it’s peak till today. They have plenty of more flops to give and probably won’t care or learn from their mistakes like Bioware because of how unique Bioware’s situation was.

This game is going to be dogshit if it ever comes out.

Thise are gonna be my last words someday. 😮‍💨

Ty, you’re the best!

Well damn, this is a good ass dump, I hope you’re okay with me borrowing some of these and by borrow I mean proliferate and shitpost across the web?

Oh you can just bet she hates the idea of thousands of people knowing her exact whereabouts at anytime of the day.

Can see her tone deaf public statement about harassment and calls for civility.

You know you’re lonely when you start looking at people like this and rationalize yourself into by remembering you’ve dated worse. 🫪

How cute, she has a LinkedIn profile, I’m sure some creative people can do something useful with such information.

As a kid, I hated that question, I didn’t dream of working as a kid, early misfortune in life taught me some interesting lessons.

I think I grew up with a vague idea of wanting to be free of money, as I associated with misery growing up and as a result, never had an answer to the question outside of “I just want to help people”.

If I had more confidence in myself I’d love to make a tutorial or intro vid to get people started but… I’m not motivated enough to ignore insecurities.

As for your last question, I’ve seen such behavior before and I think it’s sort of group self-defense mechanism at play. I 've not been on the web too long (compared to others), a sort of gatekeeping through obscurity is what keeps everything safe from those that would “ruin the vibe” of things. Which yes, it keeps advertisers, bots and other undesirables out but also it’s what’s keeping people from even trying to join, let alone stay.

I recall feeling a similar way towards Reddit when it first launched, seemed like everyone just wanted to seem smart, snarky or too cool to deal with each other which kept me from getting on it for years. I think the issue isn’t so bad here on most servers, barring a few unusual examples I’ve seen, I’m optimistic that as our numbers grow things will only get better as a whole.

#1 Buddy

Nothing to apologize for, wouldn’t have commented if I wasn’t willing to converse.

So far, I’ve enjoyed my time here, functionality wise I think things are great as is and have plenty of room for improvement but the biggest issue FV is currently facing is how small the population is. Unfortunately an issue that can’t really be “fixed” without time and effort but mostly time.

I understand where the “ghost town” comments come from, and I think it’s folks just not knowing how to navigate the site or expecting the site/sites to cater to them. For this same reason we don’t have as much spam, bots or engagement bait, so I think it’s a fair trade, you have to want to be here to really figure things out.

Off the top of my head, I think some sort of tutorial or intro to help people get started would do wonders for those curious but intimidated from trying out FV.

This was encouraging to read, I will keep trying to encourage others to give things a try

These idiots will seriously march to their own graves thinking it’s a million dollar idea.