Microsoft rumoured to purchase Obsidian Entertainment

[Carl]

JRPGfan said: 

Carl said:
As long as they have creative freedom, sure.

Creative freedom is just a PR buzzword for Xbox, reality doesnt seem to line up with their words.

Look at rare.... all the creative freedom in the world... and they choose to make a cheap games as a service, mmo like game?
I doubt buy that for a secound, MS told them they had to do such and such, and the result is sea of theives.

Same with Fable.... they wanted to do a normal fable game, but MS got them makeing a games as a service moba,....
and resulted in MS closeing down the studio.

MS doesnt seem to trust studios with creative freedom.

Can you provide any sources for that, regarding Sea of Thieves?