Microsoft have a philia of spending money

[DirtyP2002]

fps_d0minat0r said:
This is the reason I dont like them.
Rather than creating their own stuff, they go around preventing the creations of other companies from appearing on other platforms.
They are a liability to the industry.

The alternative way would be to buy the studio and never let them work on other platforms again, just like Sony did with Sucker Punch.

OR buy the studio and never let them work on other platforms again... and shut them down a couple of years later. Like Sony did with Psygnosis (SCE Liverpool) bought in 2001, closed in 2012, or Zipper Interactive, bought in 2006, closed in 2012, or BigBig, bought in 2007, closed in 2012.

Would you prefer MS to buy Epic and close them in 2019?
Instead they bought an IP that might or might not have been continued, hired a lot of developers to produce the next chapter of this franchise and let Epic develop whatever they want. Please tell me, how is this worse?