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LudicrousSpeed on 16 June 2017
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Trunkin said:

Or buy the Studio like Sony did with Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch. The only reason they needed to create a studio in Halo's case was because Bungie was leaving them.

The Naughty Dog you know today is not the Naughty Dog Sony purchased. They bought the talent and turned the studio around and it worked out in their favor. Microsoft bought Rare and look what happened.Sony had a vision of making cinematic/pixar like experiences and aligned themselves with developers who did the same. If you notice that Sony only purhcases devs that go through the intiation process of making what they creatively would like and reach some form of success so that they can have a successful range of games that they both can agree on making. This does not equate with how Microsoft ran their devs. I dont know how good Epics relationship with Microsoft was when they kept nagging them to make Gears for them. Creative people want to make new things. You cannot just make the same game forever. That is the EA, Activision and Ubisoft philosophy and Microsoft mirrors it so well. If Phil Spencer would focus on making dedicated studios to certain types of games and they wouldnt have many issues.

Nonsense used to justify Sony doing the same thing you bitch about Microsoft doing :)

Naughty Dog was already a great developer and didn't need any help from Sony. Also, they've gone on record multiple times talking about how they have a different heirarchy design in terms of staff and how they don't interact with Sony at all in terms of development and have complete freedom. Yet you're trying to say Sony bought them and groomed them into what they are today. Taking all the credit from the people actually doing the work and giving it all to someone who according to ND themselves, have zero influence on their game design.

Not to mention there are plenty of other studios Sony has bought that don't align with "cinematic/pixar like experiences". I can name for you one great developer who Sony influenced. Zipper Interactive. Sony made them turn SOCOM 4 into a CoD clone and then when the game naturally flopped, they killed the studio. This is all coming from actual Zipper devs on GAF. So please, just take the L, accept that all companies buy talent. Bitching at MS for buying studios is like complaining that an NFL team signs free agents. You're trying to tell us the Patriots only draft their own talent and don't sign players who are already good and established and we all know that's a load of crap :)