Todd Howard: Want the Skyrim Ports To Stop? Then Quit Buying Them

This Eerily Sounds Like the Demands of a Supervillain in a Spy Movie

Skyrim has come out on so many platforms that itโ€™s practically a joke amongst the gaming community these days. In fact, during their E3 conference last month, Bethesda revealed that the game had even been ported to a smart fridge (among other appliances).

However, if youโ€™re sick and tired of Skyrim being ported so often then Bethesda studio director Todd Howard has a simple solution: stop buying the ports!

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Speaking at a panel during this yearโ€™s Gamelab conference, Howard claimed that even though itโ€™s been out for seven years now, โ€œmillions of people every monthโ€ are still playing Skyrim.

โ€œThatโ€™s why we keep releasing it. If you want us to stop releasing it, stop buying it,โ€ Howard said. Howard also spoke about wanting to make game worlds โ€œsustainableโ€ in the long-term.

โ€œEvery year thereโ€™s a new idea we canโ€™t do, and a new technology for something that excites us,โ€ Howard said. โ€œIโ€™d say I want it to be sustainable.โ€

โ€œEventually there will come a day where Iโ€™m not making games at Bethesda,โ€ he also said. โ€œHopefully thatโ€™s a long time away. But I want to make sure that who we are, what the worlds are, what the company is, thatโ€™s sustainable far beyond me.โ€

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