Why is moneyhatting frowned upon?

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Landguy said:

DD_Bwest said:

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. 

and you use a hell of alot of maybes in an effort to make it not look so bad lol  its kinda funny

How do you know its not secretly made by an alien race that forced it to be MS exclusive

 

edit:  thought i should add that TR is just a timed exclusive.  If a company paid another to save a game, they would demand full exclusive,  since they are paying for it.

Not that I said that any of those are true.  I hoped you could manage to get the concept of "we don't know the facts".  Sorry for presuming such a thing. 

 

Even if it is a timed exclusive, the same concepts still apply.  M$ probably paid off a majority of the risk involved in this project either way.  That allows other games to get a green light regardless.

CD has said nothing about the game heading towards cancellation, unlike with B2. So while not absolute fact it is highly unlikely that MS money was necessary to ensure the game gets made. If MS saved the franchise that would have been the first thing out of the mouths of those who announced the exclusive deal.