BETHESDA's Pete Hines Says The Publisher Isn't "Remotely Interested" In Making A Battle Royale Game
Bethesda is set to release Fallout 76 - their first online-only game - and now the company's vice president, Pete Hines, says the publisher is interested in unique and new projects, not clones of popular games.
By kdet -
Aug 11, 2018 06:08 PM EST
Following the immense success of titles like Fortnite and PUBG, we've seen a number of video game companies try to cash in on the battle royale craze. For instance, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will feature a battle royale-styled game mode called Blackout.
However, it seems like there are some developers who don't see the appeal in trying to recreate other games, as Pete Hines, SVP of Bethesda's global marketing, recently told Games Radar that the publisher isn't interested in making a battle royale game.
"If it's like 'Well, these guys did this, so we're gonna do this,' I can't stay awake. 'Hey, here's our Battle Royale game!' No thank you. Not even remotely interested. That's not who we are as Bethesda; that's not how we've gotten to where we are over the last 30-odd years. And honestly, I think our devs know better than to say 'Oh, we're just gonna riff off of something that somebody else is doing.'"
Instead, Hines explained to the site that they get excited for projects that are "unique and different.". As an example, he mentioned The Elder Scrolls Legend and said, "if it was just a true Hearthstone clone, I wouldn't have been interested."
While it may be easy to just dismiss the VP's comments as nothing more than him promoting his own company, it should be noted that one of Bethesda's next outings is Fallout 76, which happens to be their first online-only game. So, it's clear there's at least some truth to his statements.
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