It's a very bad look if you sell (or lease) your IP and then someone else makes a hit game with it, but not you. Look at what it took to get another Obsidian Fallout game - Microsoft owning both Obsidian and Bethesda AND basically telling them "you're working on Fallout now". When Obsidian have been on record for years saying that they would want to return to that universe.
Obsidian wasn't allowed another chance for good reason. New Vegas was completely unfinished. unfinished map quests and content aside it didn't even launch day one on consoles. Unforgivable in an age without guaranteed internet. It was an inch from complete disaster, if it wasn't so good with cult fans it could have killed the entire series.
Fanboys and people too young to remember please form a line for down votes to the left.
That's some revisionist history if I've ever heard one. "killed the entire series" lol. New Vegas reviewed extremely well, both critically and by fans. Yes, it was extremely buggy. This was/is nothing new for Bethesda fans. Arguably, the blame on that falls on Bethesda as well, as they famously gave Obsidian only 18 months from start to finish, no delays.
If they followed their own contracts, we'd be on Elder Scrolls 15-ish.
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u/TesticleezzNuts 8h ago
I really hope EA sells the IPs to a decent dev.