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

[Pemalite]

Chris Hu said:

Pemalite said:

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.

You don't know that.
They were having financial troubles sure, but they could have also found investment elsewhere.

For all we know they might have made the next big AAA 50+ million selling franchise if they were allowed to deviate from Fable, it's not like their games weren't fun.