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Elder Scrolls fan petitions Bethesda to release earlier games for free

HITC TECH says: "Christopher Youde is a 19 year old aspiring games designer from the UK, and he is asking series publisher, Bethesda Softworks, to release The Elder Scrolls: Arena; The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall; An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire; and The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard for free, with the possibility of the source code too, to enable the modding community to expand the experiences. The first two Elder Scrolls games are infact listed as freeware, and you can pick them up here and here, but if they were to be bundled together on Steam, with mod support, who knows where the community could take them."

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60FramesPerSecond3589d ago

Why not Elder Scrolls Online for free? Ha. ha ha. ha ha ha.

r40k2133588d ago

he only wants them to release the good ones.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein2d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii2d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo2d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows902d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19891d 18h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus1d 9h ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha2d ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno2d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan2d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno2d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19812d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6691d 18h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19811d 13h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Microsoft Seemingly Closes Bethesda France

As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people

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Hereandthere4d ago

Microsoft should have left them stay 3rd party

GamerRN4d ago

If they are let go, they can be whatever they want. They ARE 3rd party now... 🤦

Barlos4d ago

Yeah, they're also jobless.

GamerRN4d ago

They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".

peppeaccardo4d ago

"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)

ChasterMies4d ago

I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.

PassNextquestion4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much

Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region

blacktiger4d ago

that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.

Mr Logic4d ago

What a stupid thing to say. The elites give 0 fucks what we say on an obscure website in the comments section.

Crows904d ago

You can always reach out and give them jobs at your company man. Don't wait

blacktiger3d ago

You own nothing snd be happy. I'm sure you heard that

Profchaos4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.

I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games

Tacoboto4d ago

It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.

Profchaos4d ago

Possibly guven all the leaks we know the Xbox brand is really struggling in the region.

Yi-Long4d ago

Well, if your consoles and games are barely found in any stores any more, of course you're gonna struggle finding consumers ...

XiNatsuDragnel4d ago

Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo

Profchaos4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers

TheColbertinator4d ago

The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.

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Why Are Steam's Recommendations Dogpoop?

Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm

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UltimateOwnage19d ago

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.