>>714885794Big difference between the staff wanting to make a good game
...and executives ordering them to do shit to scam players to make it more profitable
>>714880924>What worries me the most is that its going to do what Starfield did and strip away player freedom and roleplaying.It's the opposite problem.
Todd Howard design is to maximize freedom to the point nothing you do matter in any way, in a typical openworld fashion you are expected to play every quest of the supermarket regardless if you are playing like a treacherous demon or a righteous knight.
Starfield is the apotheosis of this logic with its infinite NG++++. No choice have any meaning anymore when you can just try out everything in the same loop.