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Pete Hines: Bethesda believes in quality over quantity

Posted Apr 19, 2011 at 2:43AM EST by Mabie A.

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Bethesda would rather go for quality over quantity. That's why according to Pete Hines, they're keeping their eyes on maintaining their portfolio small and tight.

Said Hines, the common mistake of big gaming companies is that they're spreading themselves out too thin, trying to juggle multiple titles all at one time, thereby diluting the quality of the said projects in effect.

"I have heard a lot of other compabies talking about 'well, we're going to focus on fewer triple-A titles, changing their philosophy - but they're changing it to something that we've always been structured towards, and believed in since I started at Bethesda in 1999," he told GamesIndustry.

The trick to keeping it relevant in the business is to "not trying to be in every genre."

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"We don't go running after the latest, hottest trend," he said. "We tend to pay attention to what we're doing, we make the kind of games that we want to play, because we think there's an audience for those and we try as best we can to execute them to the highest level possible."

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Great thinking on there part to bad they have a track record of releasing buggy games. Some times they even drop support for games prematurely (ie. Oblivion game of the year for ps3), This version hade one broken side quest and one broken quest that was a game killer. Don't get me wrong love the company as they produce great rpg's but there track record of releasing quality games on launch day could be better.

# RE: Bethesda not truthfull — another name 2011-04-19 20:11

My thoughts exactly.

And let it be noticed that I love their games, since Arena back in 1994 ('though I didn't play Morrowind 'till the end, but loved Oblivion and Fallout 3 despite their problems).

I just get really mad when I think they simply dropped support for them on their console versions when they were still riddled with tons of bugs, or even reintroduced the vampire quest bug in Oblivion GOTY for PS3, basically ripping off whomever bought that edition in US (EU users like me could change language temporarily to German as a workaround, even not knowing anything about it, just to finish the quest - hurrah to the Internet).

And to whom criticizes Bioware, I must say that I never saw one of their games be so bugged like oblivion or fallout 3. But maybe I'm one of the few that enjoyed Dragon Age II and didn't get disappointed with it. Wonder if I'm getting too few time to play because of real life and get happy with less in terms of gaming? Nah... I still can't find any fun on playing wii and "casual" games

In short, Peter Hines phrases are just executive trash talk to try to make good publicity and stay well in the picture. Typical. This is the core problem with VG/Music/Motion Picture industry nowadays. Probably he never ever finished Bethesda games or played them for very long.

# RE: Pete Hines: Bethesda believes in quality over quantity — EtnasPrinny 2011-04-19 13:45

Other companies should use Bethesda as a role-model, in the gaming business you should always prefer quality. As for the bugs in their games, I think it's mainly just from the size of the game, I imagine a lot of code goes into their open-world games, and it might be hard to fix things as it might cause another bug some other place. I really love the current Bethesda, I just hope they never turn towards other companies' tactics.

+1 # RE: Pete Hines: Bethesda believes in quality over quantity — kylek 2011-04-19 19:20

bethesda is the bomb!

+1 # great! — john 2011-04-19 23:33

its great to hear it from them, i've always liked Bethesda, them, Rockstar and only Konami for MGS are the ones for me... great games

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