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Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered
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"We beat you to it removed. And while you've spent 9 years on your labor of love and and made nothing from it, we will make tens of millions. Here's a couple copies of our shittily optimized remaster just to rub it in :)"
Sincerely Todd
Yep, its a massive corpo style flex, 'kill them with mandated kindness' type of move, grin for the cameras as we demean you.
The Skyblivion devs are almost certainly in mental shambles right now, but they have to put on the happy face.
Anyone who doesn't understand this has either never worked in software, or for a large corp, or both.
I mean:
1.) It’s Bethesda’s IP
The “remaster” was not just a paint job. That took a whole damn team, a very hard working team, to rebuild the game in UE5.
Skyblivion will probably continue development despite it.
None of that changes or even addresses what I said in the comment you are replying to.
Yes, a corpo flex often involves throwing a ton of money and manpower at something...
Yes, Skyblivion development will probably continue... doesn't change the fact that Bethesda just did a giant corpo flex on them.
The... whole ... point of a corpo flex ... is to showcase that you have a disproportionate amount of legal and monetary power, and you can use that to humiliate upstarts, show others how insignificant they are.
Have... you never worked in a large corp? Or... studied how they make business decisions?
Have you ever worked in software development?
... never even picked the corpo background for cyberpunk 2077?