» Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:23 pm
Ever here the phrase "Once someone gets a taste of something good, they will only ask for more." People can't be satisfied with what they have and Bethesda knows this. Letting down their fans won't hurt their sales but it does hurt their reputation, and the eyes of the people who have to read all the complaints they have sent in, so we should just wait for a definitive sign that "hey this is coming" before we go jump of the deep end about not having it revealed in the February cover or some other baseless rumor(even if the base feels like it is a mile long). I honestly believe TESV is in the works from what info they have given us, and I have in fact already said why the info they have given us is about TESV. But from what I have read (and a lot of personal speculation) we won't see the reveal for quite a while (6 months-2 years). I believe it will not be revealed until the beta tests are going on because if they are in alpha testing at the moment (which is right after conceptual information has been gathered and formed into a playable game) they might discover a major error that could set them back months. Trust me when I say video game creation is incredibly hard and programming in general is both time consuming and it can be ruined by a small typing error, so much review has to go into the making of a game that it can take half as long as it took to make the game itself. What Bethesda has been doing is not toying with our emotions like cruel, spineless, evil, jerks but trying to keep marketing out of the game until it is a sure thing (not as in the sense that it will happen, but as in the sense that what will happen in it). Marketing can ruin games by having a release date that is set back weeks, months, years, or past infinium (canceled) from when they say it will be which may anger people to the point of not buying the game until its price is dropped from the $60 a new game costs to $20-$30, or by having a title released to early and it being incomplete. The minute it is revealed it becomes property of a marketing committee thats only goal is to make the company money and get as many people to buy it as possible. Ever been let down by a games theatrical trailers and exaggerated gameplay (you have and lie if you say no), that is because the marketing team which is usually separated from the game developers themselves gets a hold of it and tries to photoshop a masterpiece from whatever they have. With a culmination of testing and polishing once the games actual design and gameplay are finished will halt the game for quite a while. Even linear games take months to polish up to the point of becoming a master piece, and most of those follow very cliche stories and gameplay mechanics. While openworld games like the TES series, WoW, and Two Worlds have many features that can easily be overlooked by developers and never seen by the average adventurer, but are found later by their true fan base and end up being half finished or incredibly buggy. These games take a long time to be finished to the point of perfection (and often never are) so having to wait 4-6 years for them should be nothing. I am very impatient myself and would get on my hands and knees and beg for some tangible piece of information about the developers progression, but one should just find comfort in knowing it will come. Enough has been said to figure their project is TES related (in my opinion which again I already made a post as to why), but with statements like this from Todd Howard "You spend a lot of time trying to design a game, but then also deal with all new technology. We’re trying to, going forward, find a better balance between those two, so that we’re not just satisfied with something working." we can figure that it will take time and if you can't wait for it to happen then please divert your attention to something else for a year. I find nothing wrong with this speculation thread and believe it to be both useful and stress releaving, but shouldn't become a place where one just lets of anger because we are not hearing news about something we have been told we wont hear about. So to sum everything up we won't hear about until they can release enough to fill up our expectations on what a awesome game it will be. When they do we can expect a multitude of screenshots and gameplay trailers, along with many sessions of Q and A. So mellow out and enjoy the ride, it might be a long one.
just don't read it. 
