Every Bethesda game since Skyrim (and arguably Skyrim, depending on who you talk to) has followed the exact same script: exponentially longer development time to shart out marginal graphics improvements, dumbed-down mechanics and vastly less engaging storytelling.

Up until Starfield I had managed to enjoy all of them for what they were (with modders’ help of course). But Starfield is so aggressively dull I had a free 30-day trial of Microsoft GPU and could only manage maybe a week of playing it on the cloud before I was literally too bored to bother.

Given Bethesda’s trajectory, I have to agree with you. ES6 is going to be pure shit.

I think it goes something like this: “If I vote against Russia’s interests, Putin might release some of the abundant kompromat he has on me.”

This was a thing like 10 years ago too, iirc. Ads had threads and you could post in them and up/down vote them. That… didn’t go well. For advertisers, that is.

Now they just need a Factory to create more Factories and they…

I apologize, this is Factorio, not Java.