在《星空》發售一個月後，皮特·海因斯於2023年宣佈退休，此前他已在Bethesda工作了24年。這位離任的通訊和市場營銷副總裁在一次新的採訪中表示，在微軟收購完成後，他其實已經計劃一段時間離開了，因爲他感到“無力做我認爲應該做的事情來妥善管理這家公司”（“powerless to do what I think needs to be done to run this place properly.”）。
儘管海因斯在4月10日接受Kirk McKeand的Firezide Chat新聞通訊採訪時並未直接提及這家科技巨頭的名字， 但他暗示新東家並不適合Bethesda，讓他難以維護這家傳奇遊戲工作室的聲譽。
“當我無法履行我認爲我的職責，讓這家公司繼續保持——即便不是遊戲行業效率最高的發行商，也絕對是頂尖的——地位時，當我無法保護它，眼睜睜看着它被破壞、被瓦解，坦白說，被虐待、被濫用，不管你想用什麼詞，我都無能爲力時，我說我不能坐視這一切發生在我眼前。”（“And when I was unable to do what I thought my job should involve in continuing to have that place be, you know, if not the most efficient publisher in the game industry, it was way the **** up there. And when I couldn’t protect it, and I saw how it was getting damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused, whatever word you want to use, I said I am not going to sit here and watch this happen right in front of me.”）
海因斯曾在公司內部散發一封電子郵件，抱怨《使命召喚》系列遊戲可以跨平臺發行，而Bethesda的遊戲卻被迫成爲Xbox獨佔遊戲。
海因斯說，他職業生涯中最糟糕的體驗是“加入一個我真心喜歡的地方，那裏的人我真心敬重，但到了那裏之後才發現實際情況並非如此。”（“to join a place that I genuinely was a fan of and people there I genuinely held in high regard and esteem, and then to get there and see how it actually worked.”）
他繼續說道：“說是一回事，對吧？但我更看重的是：說完之後要做什麼？你說的都是真心話嗎？還是你只是說些聽起來不錯的話，然後一離開這個房間就全忘了？可是在貝塞斯達，我們從來都不是這麼做的。”（ “To talk is something, right? But I’m very much about: what is the follow-up to that? Do you mean what you say? Or are you just saying shit that sounds good and then as soon as you leave this room that’s completely forgotten? Because that is not how we ever operated at Bethesda.”）
“這並不是說Bethesda說的我們都做了，”（“That’s not to say everything [Bethesda] said, we did,”）他補充道。“沒錯，我們可能遠沒做到這一步，但這絕對是我們的初衷。我們會言行一致，保持真誠和真實。說實話，我仍然認爲Bethesda是這些虛假和不真誠的一部分。這應該不會讓你們感到意外。”（“Yeah, we probably didn’t ****ing come close to that, but that was absolutely our intention. We are going to do what we say and say what we do and be genuine and be authentic. And truthfully, I still think Bethesda is just part of something that is not authentic and is not genuine. And that shouldn’t be a surprise to you.”）
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