{"id":79524,"date":"2020-09-21T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/microsoft-rare-bethesda-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:57:47","slug":"microsofts-rare-acquisition-has-some-bethesda-fans-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/microsofts-rare-acquisition-has-some-bethesda-fans-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Rare Acquisition Has Some Bethesda Fans Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many Bethesda fans are worried today as Microsoft has just announced that it has acquired Zenimax Media<\/a>, the parent company to Bethesda, which owns the rights to The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Wolfenstein<\/em>, and more. Some Bethesda fans have taken to Twitter and share their uncertainty in regards to the purchase, comparing it to Microsoft’s 2002 acquisition of Rare.<\/p>\n

From 1994 to 2002, Rare worked closely with Nintendo as a major second-party developer, releasing such titles as the Donkey Kong Country<\/em> series, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Golden Eye<\/em>, and Conker’s Bad Fur Day <\/em>on the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 consoles. After Rare’s purchase by Microsoft, the company created new franchises such as Viva Pinata<\/em> and various Kinect titles. Through the years, many fans have felt that Rare had lost its magic touch for gaming, with titles like Conker<\/em> and Perfect Dark<\/em> fading into obscurity, and other games like Banjo-Kazooie<\/em> getting poorly received sequels.<\/p>\n

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Fans are comparing Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda to Rare, stating that the same thing could happen to some of Bethesda’s IPs like The Elder Scrolls<\/em> and Fallout<\/em><\/a>, if not handled properly by Microsoft.<\/p>\n