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Dark Jeto wrote: With Daggerfall they should've just picked an ending they wanted to work with and go with it. That's what they do for every Fallout game. It would have easily worked there as well.

Or better yet, not referenced the ending at all anywhere in future lore. That would've left it open for the player to interpret. I'm going to guess you've never actually played Daggerfall (sorry if I'm wrong), the entire game is based around the fact that a numerous number of factions are fighting to gain control of the Iliac Bay region with Mannimarco and the Underking having seperate motives. You could say the climax of the main quest is choosing which of these factions deserves the powers of the Numidium and to rule the region.

Only choosing one ending would piss alot of fans off, especially seeing as most people didn't just pick one ending and stop there. Never referencing the ending of Daggerfall would have fans wondering what the hell happened, and how exactly would that show Bethesda faced their "mistake", this would just make Bethesda look like they gave up on addressing the matter, it would basically say "we don't care about your choice at all".

The Warp in the West did not remove the players choice like the formers, it made all of them canon. Instead of completely ruining the ending for the game with a retcon, they made a compeltely new ending that mashed all of them into one.