View: https://youtu.be/AQMaAfbJ2TI?t=1041
Adjacent to this but interesting nonetheless, from a recent interview with Raphael Colantonio (Arkane Founder) :
Bethesda weren't sure if they wanted Dishonored 3, and so we got Deathloop instead
Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio reveals that Deathloop was initially meant to be a short project to keep the studio moving after Death Of The Outsider
www.rockpapershotgun.com
This combined with earlier leaked screenshots of Redfall showing some sort of MTX store and currency, it seems like Redfall was Bethesda GASSing up another one of their studios (BGS/76 and Machine/Youngblood.) I understand that it probably would've been a terrible look/morale killer for MS to cancel Redfall straight after acquiring Bethesda, with Arkane Austin already being 3-4 years deep into development of the game and it originally targeting a release a little over a year after the acquisition. But the damage this has done to Arkane's reputation and the bad PR it has created for Xbox is terrible, surely taking a hands on approach and telling Bethesda to scrap the project while moving Arkane Austin to something their more passionate about would have been a better choice.
Plus while I would trust Bethesda's individual studios to manage themselves, I don't trust Bethesda publishings management having complete creative/management freedom. This is their third failed attempt at pushing their studios in this direction, sure after Starfield future Bethesda publishing projects are probably not going to be like this given their new position. But any management at Bethesda that thought Redfall was a good idea in the first place (let alone 76 or Youngblood), or didn't step in earlier in the production of Redfall surely shouldn't have complete freedom.
One interesting thing before Jeff cut himself off :
There was a rumour going around recently in the last couple of weeks, that Microsoft was blindsided/surprised by the missing 60fps mode for Redfall. I wonder if Jeff was about to bring that up.
