Hi, my name is ColdBeer and some of you probably already know about this project and that making
it takes more or less forever.
Skyblivion along with it's colleague Skywind, which is a remake of Morrowind, has been in
the development for many years now and it always seemed for most of us, that it is more
or less just a PR project that will never be finished.
Skyblivion is being made by fans, it’s not an official Bethesda’s game, but It seems
that they had an agreement - as long as they create their own assets for the game, Bethesda
doesn’t swing it’s almighty legal banhammer.
And they used to swing it like a pp left and right.
Remember when some indie company created the game called Prey for the Gods?
It’s a game inspired by the Shadow of the Colossus and has nothing to do with the
first person shooter game Prey released by Bethesda.
But guess what?
The giant threatened to go to court if indie guys didn't change the name of their game.
So they changed it to Praey for the Gods, because even if you are right and could win
the case, the giant like Bethesda could involve you into court battles for years and years.
And even if they lose in the end, they do not even care - a company like that can probably
afford several law firms who will do the job for them and from you they will take your
personal lifetime.
Years of it.
And make an example out of you for other small companies who dared to oppose them.
So that was a position of power for which I will always look at Bethesda with little
trust.
If they can threaten indie companies, they can do a lot more.
And now this giant belongs to an even bigger giant - Microsoft.
And all the agreements with Bethesda are now agreements with Microsoft as well.
Remakes like Skyblivion hang on the fact that if you want to play it - you will have to
buy both Oblivion and Skyrim with all the DLCs - so Bethesda gets money from this project.
Looks like a cool deal - fans release the remake, people buy not one but two games and
everyone is happy.
Until it’s not.
If I was some guy at Microsoft it wouldn’t take me long to realize that this is a complicated
thing.
Buying two games and then upgrading them to a better version isn’t something a casual
player would ever do.
Yeah, I would do that, probably you as well, but we are not the majority.
Casual gamer wants its game fully complete and easily accessible within his Steam library.
So the fact is that if Bethesda officially remade Morrowind and Oblivion they could sell
it for 60 dollars or Euros and see way bigger numbers on the sales counter.
To be honest, most of the hardened fans already have Skyrim and Oblivion, so this remake will
make little money for them.
My point is, that this release date, although it is official, may not be entirely true.
Stuff can happen in the future.
Well I admit, I’m really good at writing stuff and avoiding revealing the date - it’s
not this year.
And it’s not 2024.
Skyblivion will be released in the year 2025.
So if Microsoft and Bethesda will do nothing to screw it up, we might finally get the Oblivion
remake on our machines in two years.
Although I wish that Bethesda bought all the work from developers and made an official
release with a normal installer.
If that’s not possible because of the volunteer work involved, there are still ways to do
it.
I even though about one.
For example you can just give all the work for free, but make a deal that half of the
revenue would go to charity as long as anyone would buy it.
This way Bethesda still gets its share of money, we get an official release and developers
of the remake would be proud co-owners of charity fund or something.
It’s a speculation of course, It probably has zillion flaws, I’m not a lawyer or something,
there is no need to prove me wrong in the comments.
I know you can, I trust your abilities, you won already.
And you can buy me a beer instead by pressing the Thanks button above the description ;)
Anyway, you may think that the release date of 2025 is far away in the future and you
are right - we may get a nuclear war or two in that time.
But that is still earlier than the alleged release date of Elder Scrolls VI - it will
most likely come out in 2026 – 2027 at the earliest, so Skyblivion can
soothe our hunger for new Elder Scrolls games after all.
So let’s hope for the best and I wish good luck for the developers team.
Thank you for watching, have a nice day and I’ll see you next time, bye!