
Even after devoting 14 years of his career to Bethesda, Skyrim senior artist Nate Purkeypile says the developer has changed too much for his tastes, and he would never return.
"I can pretty safely say there's not a single day that I've even contemplated going back," Purkeypile told Bloomberg in a new interview – one of many developers commenting on the freedom and agility that small teams offer in the face of AAA giants. "That scale of production is not necessarily enjoyable for a lot of people. You're very much a cog in the machine."