Farsala said:
shikamaru317 said:
enditall727 said:
Bungie was 1st party??? I thought they were alwas 2nd party??
OH LORD!
So it really does seem like Bungie coudn't wait to get away from MS and Halo
also, doesn't MS owe much of their success and popularity to Bungie?
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No, Bungie was 1st party, Microsoft bought them and absorbed them into Microsoft Game Studios. Yes, Microsoft owes much of their success and popularity to Bungie, just as Bungie owes much of their success to Microsoft and Xbox fans, it was a mutually beneficial arrangement which Bungie decided to end because they became popular and wanted to go multiplat. That's all well and fine, I can deal with multiplat, but snubbing your fans on Xbox, who you owe much of your success to, by giving PS4 owners exclusive content and earlier beta access, that's just low. Like I said, I don't hate Bungie and I will still by Destiyn, but they are no longer my favorite video game developer.
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That would be the same reasoning a Sony fan would be angry with SE and Konami. It does not matter that they were 3rd party because the Sony fanbase made 3D FF popular, SO popular, and made MGS popular. And then FFXIII comes out with exclusive advertising for the 360 version, SO4 comes out on the 360 with no release for PS3 at first etc etc.
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But all those franchises started on Nintendo platforms... What's the deal?
Final Fantasy was popular on the SNES, even if the console market wasn't as big as it became with the PS1. People find all kinds of reasons to get mad at nothing. Those franchises are from third party devs. They're free to make the business decisions that make the most sense. And going multiplatform is a sound business decision in these days and age. This sense of self-entitlement prevents a lot of console brand loyalists to be logic and reasonable when discussing these matters.
