Ex Lionhead Producer: Microsoft the “Destroyer” of 1st Party Studio

[Pemalite]

Chris Hu said:

Pemalite said:

Digital Anvil. >:( (Freelancer.)
Fasa Studio's. (Mechwarrior.)
Ensemble. (Age of Empires.)
And now Lionhead. All amazing studio's which put out some extremely high-quality, highly regarded games.

They still don't hold a candle to EA though, I'll never forgive them for what they did to Bullfrog and Westwood. lol

Closing down lionhead, creators of Fable and Black and White is a massive loss to the industry and a massively missed opportunity by Microsoft.

To call Lionhead an amzing studio is a bit of a stretch.  Also their best game Black and White was made under EA not MS.  So yeah EA gave up on them a lot earlier then MS did.

Black and White, whilst made while the company was under EA's thumb is irrelevent. - It was the people working at Lionhead that made that game what it was and pulled it off, not EA.
Fable 1 and 2 were also great games in their own respective rights, Fable 3 was decent, but could have been so much more, anyone who played it could easily have seen the potential it had.

Lionhead certainly had more hits than misses as far as I am concerned, I have sunk more hours into their games than most other franchises, hence why I can and will call them an Amazing studio which helped draw me and keep me in Microsoft's gaming ecosystems.