How a small studio's chance at big time died at Microsoft's doorstep

[Nuvendil]

HollyGamer said:

Nuvendil said:

HollyGamer said:
Microsoft is not a charity company, they might thing more then twice for games that will fit for their audience and their potential consumer, They had a team that judge games and doing some research, maybe some games had their interest and some games is not, it's not like every games is coming for their preferable platform. Some miss some hit, so i bet this is for the best.

Well if the decision was motivated by pure business, that's fine.  But they didn't have to be jerks about it.  Tasking the team with first a multiplayer only game, then upping it to a 6h singleplayer game, then a 30h singleplayer game and refusing to give them any additional budget or time and then, after lengthy budget negotiations, just dropping them?  That's not a very professional way of conducting yourself.  It may have been good business, but it was handled unprofessionally. 

If that the case then maybe Microsoft is to be blame but is that really the real story, some developer or people or even story maker always hyperbole some stories, But still if that the case then it's microsoft fault, but i think we cannot  blame everything to Microsoft and it's not only Microsoft who ever did this, maybe it's just unlucky thing for Microsoft to get exposed, it's hard to judge especially from one sided information.

Well Microsofts refusal to so much as comment at the request of the article writer is a pretty bad sign.  I mean, if they were lying MS would have every right to speak out and even to sue them if the lie is damaging enough.  That they declined an open invitation to refute the story would imply that the general facts are fairly close to reality.