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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Reveal Livestream (starts in 23 hours) (www.youtube.com)
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Bethesda are finally going to show it. Rumors are that this will be shadowdropped (releases on the same day)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't expect they would, since Skyblivion already has their blessing and the team has been working with representatives from Bethesda to make sure that everything they're doing continues to be kosher with them.

The Skyblivion devs also released a statement recently that they are also looking forward to the release of this remaster, and believe that there is enough love to go around for both projects.

Basically, Oblivion fans are going to be eating well this year. If the official Oblivion remaster is underwhelming, there will still be Skyblivion to look forward to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's all kosher until Zenimax decides it can make more money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, though one would think they'd have taken steps to C&D Skyblivion the very moment they decided to move forward with their own project if that was their intent. It wouldn't make much sense otherwise to let Skyblivion keep going this whole time if they saw it as a threat to their profits, since the mod is pretty close to completion at this point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they C&D'd skyblivion now only to offer their own remaster it would turn a lot of people off of it, they'll wait until a few months after the remasters release, once they've gotten the bulk of their sales in and aren't worried about the PR backlashing cutting sales they'll drop the hammer on the skyblivion team.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wouldn't be much of a point, though. Skyblivion is already just about done. If they C&D it later this year, there will still be a 99% finished Skyblivion floating around on various hosting sites that they'd never be able to stop people from getting their hands on. Basically I don't think it's a question of whether or not Microsoft/Zenimax would want to kill the project to boost their own profits, but rather if they even could at this point, and I think the answer is no. A few years ago may have been a different story, but that ship has sailed.

It's not the same sort of situation as teams making mods or romhacks of Nintendo games who (foolishly) announce it early and get C&D'd immediately before there's anything to play. Skyblivion is something you can play in an almost-complete state right now if you wanted, and I don't think a C&D in a few month's time will stop modders from finishing it anyways since it's so close to completion.