Fans waiting for the sequel to the hit action role-playing fantasy game "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" are in for a disappointment. Bethesda reveals that there are no plans to have another game set in the same universe as they intend to focus more on producing quality games rather than on quantity.
The Telegraph published an interview with Bethesda Softworks' vice president of marketing and PR, Pete Hines conducted after the game studio's presentation at this year's 2015. In it, Hines answered inquiries about whether or not the 2011 hit will get a new installment, saying that Bethesda is cool to the idea of making a sequel to the game.
Fans of the game may not like what Hines had to say, but the Bethesda executive defends his company's position. "We're not the sort of publisher that focuses on 'what's our 25 titles for 2015," Hines said in the interview. "We do smaller stuff, we don't publish to scale, we try to publish to quality. Make sure everything we do is noteworthy."
Hines also compared the way Bethesda works to other game publishers, noting that if it wasn't them, there would be a sequel to "Skyrim" a year or two after the original release. He said that in Bethesda's point of view, the practice harms the quality of games, as evidenced by the number of game franchises getting ruined by their publishers thanks to a forced yearly release schedule for their sequels.
Bethesda is known among gamers for the practice of not announcing their upcoming projects until the games themselves are ready, and for taking a long time between game releases. Before the release of "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and its supporting DLC packs, Bethesda worked on "Fallout 3" in 2008.
The studio's upcoming projects include "Fallout 4", which is slated for a November 10 release, the reboot of the survival horror shooter "Doom", and "Dishonored 3".
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