A former Bethesda Game Studios employee thinks the company has become too big

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A former Bethesda Game Studios employee thinks the company has become too big

Perhaps the name Nate Purkeypile isn't that well-known, but he spent 14 years at Bethesda Game Studios, working on games such as Fallout 3, Skyrim and Fallout 76.

In 2021, in the midst of Starfield's development, Purkeypile left the studio to found Just Purkey Games. Purkeypile is now hard at work on The Axis Unseen, an open-world horror game in which you must hunt all kinds of monsters.

In a statement on Reddit, the creator explained the reasons that prompted him to leave Bethesda Game Studios.

*"So I know a lot of people have thoughts on Starfield and how it is probably too big, should have been smaller, etc. I agree with a lot of that and while I enjoyed working at Bethesda a lot when we were about 65-110 people on Fallout 3 and Skyrim, I enjoyed it a lot less as it grew and grew."

"Starfield was about 500 people or so and with four different companies involved (BGS, BGS Austin, BGS Dalls, BGS Montreal), and that's not including outsourcing. This just wasn't my style."

"There were so many meetings and it wasn't the way I liked to build games. I like being able to just move fast and build unique things."*

Source: reddit.com

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