denniswaterman said:
Hmmm, as laid out by wikipedia I see. There's a reason why there's no citations in that article....because there's no specific definitions as you have attempted to insinuate...I could re-write it to prove a point, but I don't want to.
You're very confused here. Epic is a third party developer. Gears of war 1, 2 and 3 are first party games from a first party publisher.
Then please enlighten us, who was the third party publisher???
There are no second parties, only first and third. First is anything with Microsoft (game) Studios on the cover, third is anything that isn't.
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Publisher doesn't mean owner, it just means the general funder of an IP. Insomniac games is a second party developer to Sony. They create games specialized for Sony's console while having their independence as a company, Sony owns the rights to the IP's. Naughty Dog used to be second party before Sony bought them as well in Playstations first generation. Gears of War is neither owned nor the company who made it by Microsoft. Publishing is only the funding for production and distribution of said game with the with the promise of profitable return. The only rights Microsoft has to the Gears franchise is a three game exclusivity contract which means Epic has to develop said franchise exclusively for them. That contract is now over and Epic can do whatever the hell they want with the franchise.
