| Machiavellian said: Paying a lot of money to get a exclusive for 1 year sounds like paying for development. Not sure how else you look at that. As for the bad pub, seems a lot of PS4/PC gamers got over it because from what I have been reading, people pretty just say they will wait to get the game on their platform of choice. Gamers are a very fickle bunch or I should say the most vocal. The little bit of bad blood never outweights a good game. I highly doubt the franchise is going to suffer any blow as long as CD continue to make top quality games. What has always killed franchises is poorly made games more than the platform war egos of fanboys. |
There is a difference btween paying a lot of money for something and funding a product. Funding someting is taking care of the costs, if MS had aproached CD and SE and said: "here make the game, send me the bills Ill pay for it", thats funding, and usualy when someone is funding something it gives him a certain level of controll cause he can just stop sending money if he thinks the product isnt shapping up like he wanted it to. But the way I think this deal went (I might be wrong) is that the game had already been funded/was being funded by SE itself and was already under development, MS came and said "hey Square do you want X millions to make this exclusive to the XboxOne for 1 year ?", Square said yes took the money and if they used it to pay for the game development or not thats entirely Squares and CD problem, MS didnt have any controll on the development of the game itself cause they werent the ones paying the bills at all. Thats the difference.
I dont know I still think this whole thing might blow up on SE/CDs face, it wasnt a bad deal for MS thats for sure, itll boost XOnes sales, but tbh I care about the games way ore than I do about Sony and Ms itself, so if a deal helps one of them and hurts a game developer potentialy costing us future releases of great games, Ill think it was a terribel deal.
