| Machiavellian said: I believe every publisher, platform owner and even dev studios were after them. I believe that they had enough offers that they could have chosen pretty much anything they wanted. I believe EA offered the best deal that allow them to get funded and also control how they run their business and I believe EA gave a lot up because of the bad blood between them from years ago. |
That's fine that you believe that. But if you are going to work yourself into a lather because I don't believe developers' PR speak (how dare I?) and slam my deductions as baseless speculation, you should probably refrain from your own baseless speculations or at least bring a better supporting argument than "life is a highway, and Vince Zampella drives it all night long, baby".
Since you can't, we'll just have to agree to disagree, I suppose. The bottom line is that the game was going to be made without Microsoft's involvement. It was coming to the Xbox One without Microsoft's involvement. Microsoft's involvement is solely to keep the game from showing up on the competition's platform in a timely manner. That is a moneyhat.
