The Elder Scrolls

[Microplastics In My Blood]

Why aren't there more Elder Scrolls (Skyrim) clones out on the market?

To make a proper Skyrim clone you would probably need a lot of capital and the games industry is currently (and for the past few years) on the hunt for the "live-service, endless font of money". Indie studios don't have the resources, studios that do are either on said live-service hunt/quick cash or if they aren't driven only by money, then they don't want to copy something successful and want to make something kind of new or what their studio typically makes. It's in this odd goldilocks zone of being too expensive but not profitable enough.

Also the game industry as a whole is retarded. Sony has the rights to Bloodbourne and they could easily have it ported over to PC, not even a remaster, just 60fps, and it would make them fuck tonnes of money. But they would rather it be a dead IP in their back pocket to sit on and do nothing with.

 

[StacticShock]

Why aren't there more Elder Scrolls (Skyrim) clones out on the market?

eh it's too much of a issue, like what are you going to take out of skyrim to put it in there? mods? storytelling? lore?
skyrim works in a very retarded way with all of it's concepts held together with spit and it works mostly because of it's lack of focus.
something all skyrim clones fail at, it's the same as minecraft clones failing miserably to replace minecraft or souls games failing to copy dark souls.

because at the end of the day, i already have skyrim and will always go back to it as the clone is missing something that skyrim has that i'm used to it.