| Machiavellian said: Also EA did not PAY Respawn to make a Titan fall, they payed for exclusive rights to PUBLISH Respawn games for a certain time period. Really, can you just go and research this stuff instead of just making guesses. Paying to publish a company games is not PAYING FOR THE GAME and EA has no SAY ON WHAT Respawn makes. They have no control of the IP or anything. |
So you don't think that EA is funding the development of Titanfall? They're just paying for the privilege of having their name on the box? Oookay...
Well, maybe you'll listen to Respawn when they tell you otherwise:
Q: Where has the finance come from to form and run Respawn Entertainment?
Jason West: It's part of the EA Partners deal, they've provided us with capital and a publishing deal and money to start hiring and get our team together.
So no EA deal = no Respawn = no Titanfall. Whatever other offers they might have gotten, EA was really the only viable alternative to Activision and so had all the leverage in this deal. So if Microsoft slapped down $50 million to kill the Playstation version, it didn't matter what Respawn thought about it. For what it's worth, I'm sure Respawn is genuinely as happy as they profess to be about being able to focus on just two three one platforms for their first game as a studio. But that has absolutely nothing to do with why they're not making Titanfall for PS4.
And once again, we are not talking about the Titanfall IP. We are talking about one specific game called "Titanfall". It is entirely possible for EA to own that game but not the IP.
Which is entirely beside the point. EA took Microsoft's money, and now Titanfall is a "Microsoft exclusive". That is a moneyhat. I think it's a bad practice for gamers. Period. End of discussion.
