Yep, I allowed myself to be optimistic about the acquisition of Bethesda.
I had hoped that it might:
1. Lead to a remaster of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas - by putting smaller teams on those ports and give them development experience. That should have been commisioned DAY ONE.
2. Allow a smaller studio to work on a Fallout/ Elder Scrolls game that wasn't a mainline, but could have been released to coincide with the show. Make them safe games, they were fun. not something that needed to break the bank.
3. Do the same for a Quake game. Let a smaller studio make a safe Quake game.
There were SOOOO many opportunities for little easy wins for that acquisition...and they wasted it.
Instead...it gave us Starfield, Redfall and Doom the Dark Ages. Only one of those was legit good, but still a step back from the two preceding games. Starfield was OK, but was not anywhere close to the homerun it needed to be and Redfall was absolute trash.