Why do some people consider microsoft buying games as "stealing"?

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waron said:

Xoj said:

waron said:

jesus kung fu magic said:

The J man cant understand why people consider microsoft buying exclusivity as stealing when it is more understandable than sony buying devs/studios back in the day.

 

Is buying devs/studios really morally more respectable than buying individual games or franchises?

 

i don't know anyone who said that MS stole anything aside from ps3 fanboys.

 

but hey sony didn't steal anything aside from moneyhatting Square Enix with Final Fantasy and their other key franchises, Heavenly Sword that was 360 exclusive game, GTA games, Ghostbusters 2 months before its release etc. so far sony was the one stealing games and still is.

they didn't have to stole final fantasy, nintendo was prick, and square enix wanted CD as the medium because of the lack of space.

not really. the whole story was:

1. SE made FF7 alpha/beta for n64 that was shown on many conventions.

2. sony comes on stage and offer SE moeny for FF7.

3. SE goes to nintendo and offer FF7 for certain(probably bigger) amount of cash.

4. Big N said no.

5. SE took sonys offer and ported existing FF7 game to psx and finished it as psx exclusive.

 

sony did that several times during psx/ps2 era.

 

Link or it didn't happen. Several different sources has it that SE (And other 3rd Parties) made a tech demo build for Nintendo showcasing FFVI on the N64. During development of said demo they ran into several problems with the N64 hardware. Mainly the expensive cartridge based format. Sony announces their Playstation with the CD format.

 

CD's are also WAY cheaper to produce, develop and keep royalty costs to a minimum. SE Approaches Nintendo asking for an alternative way to make FFVII or a cheaper royalty fee. Didn't happen SE approaches Sony and FFVII is created with Sony handling Publishing in EU and NA same as Nintendo did it for Square with FF1-FF6.

 

Sony has gone record again and again saying that they don't pay for 3rd party support. And truly during the PS1 and PS2 era they didnt see a need to.