Elder Scrolls 6 devs are seriously worried about the game's future, report says

Massive Xbox layoffs and restructuring could jeopardize TES6's release date In early July, a report claimed that Bethesda's highly anticipated RPG, The Elder Scrolls 6, was two years or more away from being completed. On Thursday, the public got a better sense of where things stand for the open-world sequel to Skyrim from the people who are actually working on the game. And right now, it's grim at Bethesda. Bethesda Softworks, like many Xbox studios, suffered a massive restructuring in July that put swaths of people out of work. The Bethesda segments reportedly most affected by these layoffs were the teams working on games like The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 — but some people working on The Elder Scrolls 6 were let go as well. Layoffs are never good for morale. Morale also isn't helped by the knowledge that Xbox plans to cut an additional 1,600 employees in the gaming division before the end of its current fiscal year. In the wake of the layoffs, tension hangs in the air. Employees posted remembrance displays on social media of laid-off workers adorned with small tokens of gratitude, like flowers. These displays, which were placed in the Bethesda office common areas, were