Bethesda's unfettered pursuit of capital: Capitalism or No?

And I'm not gonna immunize capitalism from criticism because omg communism is worse.

Please pay attention to the context. Bethesda is a company with money, employees, a profit-seeking motive, and an ability to make things happen to ascertain that it makes more money. I'm calling that a focused engagement with capitalism whether you like it or not. That's what it is.

The doom community (in a vacuum) is an organic machine that we all benefit from through a mutual love of the game. We trade work with each other through unpaid labor to make this game more than what it is for each other's continued entertainment. The community exists despite capitalism. Not because of it. The content the community creates for Doom game owners is annoying for bethesda because we are creating value with their intellectual property without them getting royalties from it. So it interests them to intervene and eventually command some segment of what has been created over the course of 30 years. People are confusing this interest in our community with love, but the interest is and always has been profit-seeking.

I procured assets that I could build on to create a Doom-style 2.5 D game with Unity, but it would require a big learning curve nonetheless.