LogFAQs > #979801365

I'm going to go ahead and say, "Yes, ES6 is totally fucked." Bethesda lost their creative energy in favor of a "designed through committee" approach. It's basically demonstrated in Starfield in microcosm form in the Stroud-Ecklund Star-yard mission to design a new starship.

Bethesda let go of ambitious quest design after Oblivion(e.g. the Dark Brotherhood), and let go of ambitious worldspace design after Skyrim. Despite the new space setting, Starfield shows they let go of any thought for originality when they decided to make the player Spaceborn(the space-y equivalent of Dragonborn, complete with Space Shouts).

If ES6 ever releases it's going to feel like a smallscale, singleplayer spinoff of ESO, and probably with similar levels of attention given to microtransaction systems. Modders will largely turn their noses up at it, like they did with Starfield, and let the game quietly die.