Former Bethesda designer Will Shen, who worked on several high profile titles such as Starfield and Skyrim, has said he believes players are becoming “fatigued” with games that take hours upon hours upon hours to complete.
During an interview with Kiwi Talkz (via GameSpot), Shen was asked about game length and acknowledged that there are still plenty of people putting hours into Skyrim. But, do players want to invest the same amount of time into newer games coming to the market? Well, Shen feels we’re kind of over that idea when it comes to new releases.
“We’re reaching a point where people are fatigued, or a large section, a growing section of the audience, is becoming fatigued at investing 30-plus, 100-plus hours into a game,” explained Shen. “Because they already have that. They already have the games that they will continually come back to, and adding another one to that list is a tall order. It’s always a tall order.”