makingmusic476 on 10 March 2009
| famousringo said: I was hoping this would shed some light on why MS closed the studio. Guess not. |
On Bruce Shelly's blog on EnsembleStudios.com (the blog has been mysteriously removed now), he mentioned that the closure was unexpected given their past successes, and that it seemed cause partly by the higher than average (compared to Microsoft's other studios) pay rate the employees of Ensemble enjoyed. I guess high salaries combined with the fact that they're only good at RTS (or so MS apparently thought) were the primary factors behind Microsoft's decision.
