| Machiavellian said: Actually you are very wrong about EA control on Respawn. You need to read up on what agreement Respawn signed with EA. Its the EA partner agreement. Respawn only gave EA rights to publish and distribute their games and thats it. EA does not tell Respawn, who what or where they can sell their games. Respawn is free to make any other partnerships they want and they did, they chose MS. As for CBOAT, well I have not seen this statement from him can you find the link. Also didn't someone show just how many things he has been wrong when it comes to MS. Deals like this he could say anything because most of it is behind the scenes and neither company is going to come out and say yea or nay. To your last point, Respawn is not owned by EA, Respawn own their own IP and they chart their own course. The deal is a partnership deal for distribution and publishing with EA, so everything you just stated is pretty much conjecture. |
I don't thnk that's so. EA Partners is a dead program now. Even if Respawn signed up before they killed it, let's face it: how ever desirable it was to be the publisher of Respawn's first game there just aren't many publishers for a game as expensive as Titanfall. Activision is off the table for obvious reasons. None of the Japanese publishers could afford it, and their branding on it would have been the kiss of death anyway. So that leaves basically the first parties, Ubi, and the place you automatically go when you hate Activision: EA.
Can't find the link off hand, but the only thing CBOAT has been wrong with in regards to Microsoft so far as I know was his claim that Mirror's Edge 2 would be at their E3 (and it was at E3, so could have easily been pulled from MS' show at the last minute) and that Prince of Persia would also be there (which some people think was because of the Halo video, but it's also possible that PoP's announcement has just been delayed for whatever reason). His track record on Sony is terrible, but even he admits that.
I never said Respawn is owned by EA. But when you are getting millions upon millions of dollars to make a game, you definitely don't chart your own course. Put it this way: Do you really think EA said, "I know you want to only put this on Xbox One (oh, and PC... oh, and Xbox 360) but you'll have to make a Playstation version, too"? And Respawn said, "No! Fuck you! We love Xbox One and need the cloud computing powerzzzz and dedicated serverzzzz (but we're still porting to PC... and Xbox 360...)"? And then EA said, "Oh, okay"? Because I think that's pretty far fetched.
The fact that they talk about how awesome Xbox One is and how those niceties are why it's "Xbox exclusive" (i.e., not coming to Playstation) and then turn around and make a PC version and outsource a 360 port just goes to show what a line of bullshit it is. Those features may be nice, but that's not why. So, yeah. Money. It might be just conjecture, but it's pretty damned obvious conjecture.
Finally, EA has discussed the deal they made with Microsoft. So again, there is no deal between MS and Respawn.
