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I'd wager technical debt is the reason. It's no secret that Bethesda's engine is bad. Bad code makes it harder to do bug-fixes, because it's harder to find the root cause of things and the risks of having accidental side-effects is far higher. There's only so many hacks and emergency fixes you can slap into a codebase before it becomes a house of cards that collapses if you breathe on it the wrong way.
Hopefully having MS money will allow them to take the time to learn/create a new engine, it already showed its limits in Skyrim
Yeah because Windows is definitely a flawless product
Might be a shot in the dark here, but a game engine seems like it would be different than an operating system.
Oh
so sorry
You get the "technically correct but missed the point" award
You're the one who brought up Windows where it had no place. They said MS money not MS OS developers.
And the MS OS developers are backed by....?
Once again nothing to do with Bethesda. You just want to shit on MS because "MS bad!".
The argument was "MS money == good product".
No the argument is deep pockets = good product. Since Bethesda has nothing to do with the development of windows you are just making yourself look like a jackass.
Can't tell if you're trolling.
Are we talking about Microsoft's pockets?
I forgot Lemmy is a continuous Linux circlejerk, my bad.
Right?
I too, was trying to figure out what the fuck this guy was getting at until it hit me that they hate windows so much they can’t stop thinking about it.
The engine is what makes the games so great though, no other engine I know is so flexible and open for mods, while at the same time can keep states for huge numbers of game objects that can be manipulated and moved freely in the whole Game world. Yes it has limitations but I am happy to live with those in exchange for what it enables. It is more then a fair trade in my eyes.