3rd Party Exclusives

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Seece said:

Gears is owned by Epic not MS.

TBH people talk ill about MS and 'stealing' or 'buying'  3rd party exclusives, I don't think demanding owenership of an IP is better for anyone either.

That studio is then forced to create a new IP and hope it does well, or stick to exclusivity. With timed exclusive, at least after a year they can put the game on another platform, or outright have the sequel multiplatform. Mass Effect is a good example..

But I don't expect many to agree with me around here.

Yeah but this tactic has caused many multi console owners to turn away from MS as they hardly have any exclusives. I know you've seen it all before, but MS really are not helping the consumer at all with this. Hell if they put out money to 3rd parties for real exclusives at least they would be helping to create games that might not have gotten funding in the first place.