Why is moneyhatting frowned upon?

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Landguy said:

DD_Bwest said:

because money hatting is literally paying a company money to make sure other people, who would have got to play it, now wont get to.

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Using your money from scratch to build a studio and create a game. this doesnt take anything away from the other side. The game would have never went else where.

 

edit:  and by the way,  healthy competition would be companies creating products and selling them on their own merrits.  Paying other companies in an effort to handi cap the other side, isnt healthy.

What make you think they took something away?  How do you know the Square Enix wasn't going to announce that the game was cancelled?  How do we know that M$ didn't just save the game? 

Maybe because M$ paid for this title, 2 or 3 others are now funded that wouldn't have been.

 

You are only looking at the obvious result and stating that it is the only result.  Nobody here or probably on any gaming website will know all of the facts that went into any Moneyhat situation. 

In that case it would not be moneyhating, but funding, similar to what Nintendo did with Bayonetta 2.