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

[Chris Hu]

Pemalite said:

Chris Hu said:

The only way this would have been a big deal if they actually made something decent recently.  Criterion Games and Team Bondi no longer being around is a bigger deal since their last/only games where actually good.

They really didn't have a choice to focus on games other than Fable. - Black and White showed that they had some amazing creativity in that studio, would have liked for them to have had more creative freedom to work on other projects.

EA and Peter Molyneux bailed out on Lionhead Studios a lot sooner then MS did.  If they would have stayed with EA they would have gotten disbanded a lot earlier.