Agreed, I’d much rather have no Blizzard than the toxic swamp that it was/is(?). I do wish we could have a Blizzard that designed games more like they used to, but minus the toxic culture though, which is what I’m guessing the above comment was meaning as well.
Star Citizen. It’s a buggy mess as usual but it’s such a fun mess. Especially the Siege of Orison event going on right now, I’ve had some really amazing emergent gameplay moments come from it that have me very excited for the future of this game.
Honestly even if SQ42 ends up being a great game, it can never live up to the anticipation they’ve built around it at this point. People are expecting something so completely revolutionary that it will be unlike any other game they have played, but the reality is that it won’t be that. Which isn’t to say it can’t be a good or even amazing game, it just won’t be anything different or revolutionary gameplay wise.
I’ve got very minimal interest/expectations for SQ42 and I’m far more interested in Star Citizen which is still a pipe dream (although pretty fun to play in it’s current state too, bugs willing) but has much more potential to offer something different than other games in the genera are doing.
Unfortunately they’re likely well equipped to deal with that kind of situation as it’s not all that different than normal wiki vandalism.
The difference is having skin in the game. The problems with reddit didn’t really effect a lot of the users directly and definitely didn’t threaten most of their livelihoods (aside from a small number of app developers). Unity on the other hand is a tool people use to make a living and when it threatens that I imagine it will result in much more hesitancy to continue using it.
For new projects it’s absolutely a terrible idea to use Unity. The old versions not being subject to the new licensing is great news for existing projects that wouldn’t have been able to switch engines though.
As you mentioned, they didn’t make ESO. Entirely different studios involved in the two games. They probably should have spent some time with the Zenimax developers before trying FO76 though.