New interview with Bioware Manager (future platform for Mass Effect 2)

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starcraft said:

SpartanFX said:
@starcraft

he is asking for source when yoy say MS got something in return,,,,he wants to see the source for that.Don't forget ,,you said the same stuff for bioshock and we all know how that turned out.

This time it's worse,,,EA ,of all publishers, owns the dev team for ME

Actually I said something completely different for Bioshock, but thanks for purposely misquoting me.

Bioshock I said MS paid for exclusivity, which they did: timed exclusivity.

Mass Effect is something different. It was announced that Microsoft was publishing both the Xbox 360 and PC versions, with Bioware owning the rights to the IP. Microsoft was under no obligation to let EA publish the PC version, but they did.

Do you think Microsoft did this out of the goodness of their hearts?

 

Based off of what Frank Gibeau said in regards to the agreement with microsoft, I'd say Microsoft let go of the ME publishing rights for a big wad of dough. Expect lots of bread and cookies from Microsoft soon.