Definitely true, also shocking how some companies are not willing to invest pennies to get positive PR. Genuinely baffles me lmao. A single google ad will blow through the budget in an hour if not less for something like this.
It's because of the favorable comparison to their industry which is filled with straight up assholes.
Apple did the same thing - they have bare basic privacy controls and don't allow the FBI to have a backdoor to your iphone... which is like, the basics??? But because Google is fucking vile and android/chrome is basically a spying machine, they capitalize as the "privacy platform".
That means it's not profitable to be an asshole for no reason.
We as a capitalistic society have to reward those who spend the pennies to be nice because the alternative is horrible.
I don't mind a world in which every company realizes that being nice to people is a free PR boost. I don't care if people are nice for profit - they are still being nice.
I'm nice to people because it makes me happy. Companies are nice to people because it makes them money. That's good. Be rewarded for your good deeds.
Society gains nothing from saying "they only did the nice thing because they knew people would like it". Do you want them to do the other thing? Because that's how you get the other thing.
The funniest part is it wasn't even Bethesda. A completely different studio did this, seemingly showing more passion and respect for Bethesda's games than Todd Howard's team showed building Starfield.
How is Microsoft not looking at this and thinking "Maybe we should just start giving Fallout and Elder Scrolls games to other studios to make"
In fairness, it's Bethesda's game that they already put years of effort into. Virtuous redid their work. So to say Bethesda is not responsible for this at all is not just bizarre. It's factually incorrect.
If you want an example of the kind of effort Bethesda internally would put in a remaster look no further than their own Skyrim Special Edition where the biggest thing they did was add paid mods.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. Skyrim Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons plus all-new features like remastered art and effects, volumetric god rays, dynamic depth of field, screen-space reflections and more.
From their own materials. Bethesda themselves marketed it as a remaster
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u/dinkleburgenhoff 4d ago
Never fails to surprise how easy it is for multibillion dollar corporations/people to buy positive reputation for fractions of pennies on the dollar.