Conspiracy! Titanfall, EA, and Activision

[Landguy]

theprof00 said:

Landguy said:
You have too much time to kill.

But, with that time you have crafted a good narrative. I still disagree though. I think EA realized that if it came out 6-12 months later, it would be a clone of the latest COD and would get lost in the shuffle. So, they called M$ and conned them into buying it knowing the PR problems M$ had with the XB1.

EA had no reason to call MS. The contract for independant funding with EA states that if they required more than the alotted money, then rights to the Titanfall franchise would have to go to EA. If anything, EA would impede progress as much as possible. When once Vince was probably trying to sell the ideas to EA for *cue dr evil* 100 million dollars, they would now have the IP for less than 5m.

This is business, remember.

True,

But paying $5 million for a DEAD ip instead of $100 million is still bad.  The only way this game is still being talked about or even getting released is if M$ pays EA big $ to go exclusive.  And even then, M$ had to spend ass loads of money to advertise it.  EA called M$ when they knew the game was going to cost them a chunk of cash if they didn't.  This is business, cut or eliminate risk from the investment when you can.