3rd Party Exclusives

[chocoloco]

Seece said:

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 there a 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

I would say they are decuieving the consumers by saying it is an exclusive rather than telling the truth and saying we have exclusivity for a year. That way it gives people the choice of will I buy it from MS to play now or decide to wait to play it on a platform of choice. As for myself I feel like it is cheating a big proportion of gamers out of playing the game at the same time just to twist the consumers arm into buying something from your company. I buy COD for my 360, but I still think they cheat PS3 players out of new maps and content by paying for timed exclusivity. Also any company who does this is cheating the customer, but MS are the ones doing it the most lately.

It is impossible to know how the donation benifited the game, yet it still does not take away the deception side of things.

I assume your saying limiting options by taking out the other OS and backward compatibility otherwise I don't know wht you mean in the last part. Those actions would be considered annoying to me more if it affected me, but they don't so I look at those as smaller evils. For other, I admit it could be very annoying. I just happen to care more about playing new games I want to play rather than OS or playing the ps2 games I can still play on my ps2. I will end this by saying that it would be ludicrous to say any company is a saint. Just that some things annoy me personnaly more than others.