Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-1600847-20130930162457/@comment-7153552-20131003155043

Inone interview they outright said that I can be a stealthy healer with heavy armor and a bow if I wanted to be. That I could mix and match things just like in current TES models. There's no interpretation in this, they said the classes will start like an MMO but as you level it'll open up just like a current TES game - think more Morrowind and Oblivion - yet that isn't happening. There are just so many other games out there, right now, doing so much more in term of some of these things. The problem isn't really even ZeniMax, I imagine, it's the Bethesda publishing house that's causing the problems - warning, opinion to follow without any hard evidence to follow:

The problem with most games right now being the same as just about every other game out is that the publishers are all afraid to spend money on new and innovative. This is why crowd-funded games are making the strides they are today, there's no publisher telling them they can't do that. It's a dev studio making decisions based on their customers, not their shareholders. Although, in a small sense, their cutomers are the shareholders. I've put some money into some kickstarter programs and crowd-funded games not so much because I wanted to play them, but because I believed in what they were trying to do. The wallet vote is a strong one.

I went all tangental there, sorry, I'll try to bring this full circle here. If we as gamers and customers don't buy something then the publishers will have spent all that money on a "sure thing that already works" for nothing, while these non-backed and crowd-funded development studios put out AAA quality games. It'll send a message to the devs and publishers that we don't really need the same game from everyone, we want variety and we want something new, bigger and better. ZeniMax does not have my wallet vote of three games a year, they won't win it by doing something I've seen before and can get for free, either.