Regardless of the success of the live-action adaptation of Fallout, one of the Bethesda studios could also be mowed down by the spending Microsoft.
25.04.2024 “Right now everything revolves around Bethesda and Fallout.” Amazon’s new Prime Video series, which adapts the successful game series, has practically taken the world by storm, being loved by both fans and critics. In practice, barely a few days have passed since the release of the first season, Amazon and Bethesda have already announced that they will continue working together and that the adaptation will definitely get a second season.
Of course, the success can be seen in other areas as well, special, limited-edition consumer items are arriving, and then there are the toys, which, due to the success of the series, are being sold like there is no tomorrow. The much-criticized Fallout 76, for example, gained 1 million players in a single day, which is a scary number, especially considering that it is considered by many to be one of the weakest of all Fallout titles. I would like to note here that this is probably claimed by those who played the hideous quality version 1.0 only at release. Now the game has changed a lot and is more of an online single player RPG with some multiplayer than an actual Fallout MMO.
No one is safe
Overwhelming success here or there, unfortunately, according to rumors, the downsizing affecting the video game industry did not spare Bethesda either. The development company owned by Microsoft has several studios in the world, but according to a rumor, one of them may have been a victim of the downsizing wave at the beginning of the year. Several social media posts suggest that 12-year-old Bethesda France has sadly ceased operations. French studio community manager, https://twitter.com/scot_cool/status/1782427208302178349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1782427208302178349%7Ctwgr%5Eb76c48f1eacde083c9fafedf87a852529eb612f2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgamerant.com%2Fbethesda-studio-france-closed-microsoft%2F for example, he confirmed that he left the company after 8 years, but that he is very grateful for what he had achieved with the community.
It could easily be that what the workers have been feeling for some time has only now become official, so they have only just communicated this to the world. Regardless, this is a very sad process that unfortunately affects many development companies these days. Bethesda France itself was a small, 15-person studio, which was more concerned with localization and marketing, so it ended up falling into the category that Microsoft presumably only imposed as an “ancillary loss” after the huge wave of acquisitions.
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