Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoYep, its a massive corpo style flex, ‘kill them with mandated kindness’ type of move, grin for the cameras as we demean you.
The Skyblivion devs are almost certainly in mental shambles right now, but they have to put on the happy face.
Anyone who doesn’t understand this has either never worked in software, or for a large corp, or both.
doctorfail@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I mean: 1.) It’s Bethesda’s IP 2) The “remaster” was not just a paint job. That took a whole damn team, a very hard working team, to rebuild the game in UE5. 3) Skyblivion will probably continue development despite it.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
None of that changes or even addresses what I said in the comment you are replying to.
Yes, a corpo flex often involves throwing a ton of money and manpower at something…
Yes, Skyblivion development will probably continue… doesn’t change the fact that Bethesda just did a giant corpo flex on them.
The… whole … point of a corpo flex … is to showcase that you have a disproportionate amount of legal and monetary power, and you can use that to humiliate upstarts.
Have… you never worked in a large corp? Or… studied how they make business decisions?
Have you ever worked in software development?