2K lays off dozens of Firaxis employees, mostly those working on Woke Civ7
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Yup, to varying degrees. Some are close to what they were, staff/management-wise, but still get overtaken by the rot...while others are skinsuits from the start.
True, Todd Howard didn't need any one new to ruin Bethesda.
I still fault the majority of that failure on the likes of Emil, aka their narrative lead.
The guy thinks he is this amazing writer, when every contribution he provides is mid at best. All the best writing and setting creation was made by people working for Emil, not Emil himself, but Emil arrogantly believes that he is the reason why those things succeeded.
Until he is gone or at the very least removed from narrative lead, expect only mediocre stories at best from Bethesda. And the stronger his hand in the writing, the worse it will be.