The news of Microsoft buys Bethesda it staggered video game fans and even elicited some revealing responses from game developers.
Microsoft made the big announcement this morning, revealing that the roughly $ 7.5 billion purchase is expected to be settled next year and that all future Bethesda games coming to Xbox Game Pass as soon as they are released.
We will have to wait and see how the existing catalog of Bethesda games begins to leak into Xbox Game Pass. But one thing’s for sure: It didn’t take long for fans to realize what it could mean now that the Fallout company and Obsidian, the developers of Fallout: New Vegas, are under the same roof.
And Obsidian was quick to respond, though perhaps not with as much certainty as fans would like.
In addition to the Bethesda Game Studios titles, the purchase also means that id Software’s entire game catalog joins Microsoft. Doom co-creator John Romero humbly asked Microsoft to take good care of his hulking son Doom Guy, then commented on the strange journey the franchise has had since the early 1990s.
Meanwhile, Doom co-creator John Carmack was encouraged by the news and thought it might even mean that he will get to work with some of the franchises he helped create once again. the series of multi-million dollar lawsuits The one he was involved in between Bethesda’s parent company and his current employer, Oculus, may have soured the previous relationship.
Microsoft’s CEO himself even marked the occasion with a message on his personal Twitter account. For us it was the day that Microsoft massively reformed the status quo of the gaming industry, for Satya Nadella it was Monday.
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