Sentient FurBY

Dane Olds is a legendary 3D Modeler.

Since the war, my life has changed completely… my father was martyred, and I became the sole provider for my mother and my younger siblings. Every day I try to secure food and safety for them despite displacement, fear, and loss 💔

I have been married for 3 years to the woman I love deeply, and our biggest dream was to become parents 👶🏻

But after long attempts and many doctor visits, we learned that we need IVF treatment, and its cost is far beyond what I can afford.

My wife cries silently every night, afraid that our dream may never come true. I try to stay strong for her and for my family, even though exhaustion fills our hearts 🌧️

Sometimes it feels like the war has taken everything from us… our home, our safety, and even our simplest dreams 🕊️

But despite everything, we are still holding on to hope and trying not to give up.

All we ask for is a small chance at life 🤍

Any support, no matter how small, could make a huge difference in our lives. This is my link, and I kindly ask for your help.

On the same day they were laid off they took the time to reach out to us, because they truly cared about The Elder Scrolls. I personally know the same is true for many other names on that list. These weren't empty suits forwarding emails from one layers of managers to the other.

If this cruel experiment from Microsoft fails, it may be lights out for id, Obsidian, and maybe even and Bethesda within the next ten years.

God fucking dammit Microsoft, yes we want Fallout and TES games to come out faster but not at the cost of thousands of people's jobs and their financial safety and well being.

Sure there are third party fan-run servers and "single-player" conversion mods that people make, but thats just not the same as what the core game experience was meant to be.

That's the unfortunate social contract gamers make with MMOs and their developers.

"You keep supporting me and I'll keep supporting you and we'll make thing game live as long as we can."

Unfortunately that becomes increasingly difficult (if not impossible) when the legs are cut out from under the devlopers by their parent company like Microsoft is doing to Zenimax Online studios here.

ESO is such a giant part of my life, always has been since launch, and these devs have done wonderful things for it.

And the queer representation that's been a consistent presence throughout the game since its launch in 2014 means the world to a lot of people! It certainly means a lot to me. We've had same-sex couples, trans and non-binary people, bisexuals, lesbians, gay men, healthy relationships, toxic ones, tragedies and happily ever afters, even a canon aromantic!! Representation is hard and messy and not everyone will agree with the depictions it offers, but ESO has always made an effort to include people and make them a part of the world, whether its a big character focus or just a casual aspect that happens to be present, and it's been that way since the beginning, which means everything to me.