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

[waron]

Squilliam said:

waron said:

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.

 

This is the reason why I don't take any of the complaints seriously. This was the grand mother of steals and GTA III was the grand mothers daughter of a timed exclusive.

Ghostbuster game in europe was another one - they just announced like 1-2 months before release that they will fuck every other platform and their owners, it was fucked up.