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Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
So the best part of the Elder Scrolls is that the devs take good ideas from the fans and declare them official without bothering to write anything unique or original of their own?

I'm sorry, if fanfiction is the "best part" of the Elder Scrolls, then I've been giving the series way too much credit (and I've never been a fan to begin with).
You are completely and thoroughly missing the point.

I guess a video game made by hundreds of people in collaboration (aka any AAA title these days) is fanfiction too?
No, fanfiction is when you play a game and write your own stories and lore about it. The fact that you then rush to the devs, tell them how awesome your fanfiction is, and they take bits of it for their next game (or, worse yet, simply say "yep, that's what happened" with no in-game recognition at all)doesn't mean you're "collaborating" with them.

It just means that the writers are lazy, unoriginal, and hack together works from other people rather than executing solid world building of their own.

Which actually explains a lot, now that I think about it.