| JEMC said: @News: I don't mind if the posts are with or without pics. I'm not going to lie, with pics it's nicer to read the post as now it looks like a wall of text, but as I've always read the headline of each new, the missing pics haven't affected me. @F*cking Msoft! Why the hell did they shot down Ensemble Studios if they keep making Age of Empires games?! |
Because there have been a lot of turnover in management of MS game studios, and each new batch likes to clean house and ditch all the last batch's babies. And for some reason they thought that getting Ensemble to make a $100m Halo MMO project was a good idea even tho the studio had no experiance in the genre. And as they were focused on XBox at the time when that turned into a desaster they canned the whole studio because their attempt at a console RTS (Halo Wars) wasn't going too well either. Then there was the management group who saw the F2P market blowing up and decided to greenlight a bunch of F2P PC titles, but they weren't very successful because those franchises weren't really a good fit for the model and the next batch of management killed all that. And now the current management seems slightly more freindly towards PC gaming so it looks like we may get another attempt at reviving the franchise.
Hopefully it doesn't end up being a fucking XBOne Kinect title or something.
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