Worst case but certainly expected. Microsoft paid a ransom for Bethesda and the Bethesda brand and their IP. Nothing was ever going to be rolled into a “lesser” brand like Obsidian. It’s naive to think otherwise, this is capitalism to a fucking T, decisions made by penny pinching sleezebags who assign value to names.

It's worse then that because studios aren't names they are the people that make the games. All these studios are effectively dead The only good that may come of this are the devs that start their own indio studio and make the games they want. Not an easy path mind you.

Obsidian is doing fallout.

Halo needs ANYTHING. 343/Halo studios has never had a fucking clue.

Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 "Halo Studios" keep Halo.

At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 "Halo Studios" it had no chances of being good.

Activision is a publisher, they don't only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard's Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn't fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish FPS games that feel almost nothing like Call of Duty.

Last good game by obsidian ? By Bethesda ? Commercial success now ? Obsidian dig their grave.