Man some here just don't like Microsoft and shows their double standards.

Never going to happen. You know how these rumours end up most of the time.

Hope not, make new studios. Don't purchase old ones and take there games away from fans on other consoles, and PC for anyone that wants to use a decent store.

Kerotan said: Chazore said: Hope it isn't true. I quite like Obsidian, and I actually want to buy their games in the future, ones that aren't locked to a console store, let alone the crappy Windows 10 store. Leave them be. Obsidian have been mainly popular on pc. Are they likely to lose a lot of fans if they go exclusive to the Microsoft store?

I refuse to buy pc games if their not on GOG or Steam... so yes?
I doubt  Im alone in thinking so.

Also my PC isnt exactly a monster pc.... so I rather enjoy their current type of games (pillars of eternity I & II are both fantastic).
I grew up on D&D, baulders gate, Icewind dale, planescape torment.
Its fantastic theres still a dev makeing games like these, today.

If MS buys them, it ll be Windows store/ Xbox One only, and likely some type of game I wouldnt even be intrested in, because MS will meddle in what type of games they make.
Thats a loss for gameing imo.

The Obsidian "following" is people like me, that enjoy these top down isometric style RPGs, and turn based ones.
If MS buys them, things change and they ll lose basically all their following.

There’s no point to list wars when it all boils down to your opinion on a developer. I mean for example you’re being dismissive of 989 as a “Twisted Metal and sports” but they had their hands in a lot of classic PS1 franchises. Cool Boarders, Jet Moto, Rally Cross, Syphon Filter. Not to mention all the sports games. Also Sony didn’t just close down Zipper, they made Zipper turn SOCOM 4 into a shitty third person CoD clone and then when the game naturally bombed (no one wanted a CoD SOCOM, plus it came out right before the network hack) they shut them down and washed their hands of the franchise. There’s no way a developer like Ensemble is a big deal and Zipper is not.

Also Incognito didn’t just “continue Twisted Metal” after 989, they were made of former Singletrac developers, they created Twisted Metal. They also made War of the Monsters and Warhawk. You seem to be minimizing the Sony closures and exaggerating the MS ones. Ensemble was great, I love RTS. But “legendary”? Their games were not mass market games. It’s a huge loss for nerds like us, not in the grand scheme of things. I’d rank them the same as Zipper. SOCOM was the best online shooter in the PS2/Xbox era. It was a shame to see what Sony did to them.

Of course it is subjective.  Doesn't change how much I disliked the closures. Legendary is just my opinion.

Out of the defunct studios from MS, these are the games made by them in my top 50 games.

7: Halo 2 (Bungie)

15: Age of Mythology

36: Mechassault

And the same for Sony

48: Twisted Metal Black

So clearly I have much annoyance with MS's boneheaded decisions. However the argument is that not only do MS close a lot of studios, but also a lot of quality studios. About 1 studio every 2 years and 1 quality studio every 5 years. Sony on the other hand closes a studio every ~3-4 years, and a quality one every 6 years.

Closures happen I get it, especially in the UK with recent law changes.

Your entire post sounds like a "You problem" not a "Business problem."

To put it simple, MS heard the cries of people claiming Xbox has no games, so there addressing it. Hence these rumours.

Obsidian games would fit ideally into the MS family. They make old school/style RPG games, and MS being a major PC brand seems to work. Not sure why you think they wouldn't, your reasoning sounds more like jealously than anything else.

You choose to boycott brands with your own logic, than boycott these brands, no one is forcing you to buy there games or play on these platforms. The absorption adds more quality titles to a Store that's growing.

Steam was bad at launch and no one wanted to game on Steam until Steam grew its library and started to mature. I hated Steam, I had issues installing Half Life 2 yet 13 years later and 1100+ games later I still use Steam. Products improve, but you seem to have this mindset that Win10 Store wont and that its a MS product you choose not to support. That's fine. Either way these are rumours and regardless what happens I can play Obsidian games either on Steam or maybe on Win10 in the near future. You are in control of your own future bud.

PS - Your opinions on me are not needed in here.

How about instead of assuming the worst, lets see what happens. Some of you assume MS won't give Obsidian any creative freedom, which is simply not true.

If you want to define it that way, go ahead. Everyone else who are on the outside looking in will continue to see it for what it is. And honestly, given your love for Microsoft, you'd think your position would be to have more games for the MS Store and Xbox.

I guess you're more worried about defending MS than enjoying MS.

Kerotan said: Chazore said: Hope it isn't true. I quite like Obsidian, and I actually want to buy their games in the future, ones that aren't locked to a console store, let alone the crappy Windows 10 store. Leave them be. Obsidian have been mainly popular on pc. Are they likely to lose a lot of fans if they go exclusive to the Microsoft store?

Going by the lack of Win store taking off in some colossal way, I'd say so. Whatever spin Win 10 users on here have to give, it won't stop the fact that Steam is where games on PC are most popular, with GoG going in second and Battle.net third. By locking off their entire studio to just one store, an unpopular one at that, you're basically losing out on everyone else who uses the various clients and storefronts out there.

If Win 10 store was truly "great" and popular, we'd be hearing stories of it's success and how well it's doing and how amazing of a storefront it is, but since it's inception, we haven't, and even PCGamer's journo's dislike the store (as mentioned in one of their recent articles about Steam).