3rd Party Exclusives

[Seece]

chocoloco said:

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.

How are they not helping the consumer? What shit is it off their nose if the game goes multi a year later unless they're  fanboy and can't handle it?

Sony and MS both go about getting thier 4rd party exclusives differently, MS pays for theirs which IS helping the studio as they can hire extra talent they otherwise might not have, gives them more freedom and time, unless we know what Microsofts money helped them achieve on the game people can't justifiyably bitch about ms just throwing money at something to spite other consoles of a game.

In the long term though, Sony forces to stick with them. This 'Oh we're so friendly and good helping you out' when actually limiting their options later, and people fawn over them like their saints for it xD