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Story summary
- Pete Hines, longtime Bethesda Softworks executive, retired in 2023 after nearly 25 years and remains a strong advocate for the studio.
- He says Bethesda faces harsher criticism than other studios for its complex, often buggy games.
- He praises the freedom Bethesda games offer players, contrasting them with Red Dead Redemption 2.
- He says he felt powerless to protect the studio’s integrity after Microsoft’s 2020 acquisition, yet Todd Howard supported him.
