Ka-pi96 said:
Well if Microsoft didn't want to let Lionhead create their own games, ya know the games that made Lionhead popular in the first place, then why buy them? If they wanted to decide everything about the game they could have just made some new studio to do their bidding and avoided all the takeover costs. |
Why buy them? The answer is obvious - to make money. There isn't a game out there that's paid for by a publisher where the publisher doesn't have substantial say in how the game turns out. It's the way it is and it's always been that way because at the end of the day, investors want to make sure they get the biggest return possible on their investment.