Microsoft rumoured to purchase Obsidian Entertainment

[bananaking21]

Azzanation said:

bananaking21 said:

Rare is a Europe based studio. it says in the article that harison wanted all his europe based studios to make service games, which is what SoT is. thus it was clearly not their decisions 

But is there actual proof of this aside from what Harrison wanted? MS came out and said that Rare was free to make what ever they wanted and Sea of Thieves was there game.

Do you know how PR works?

if your point of view is dependent on MS releasing a statement that would flat out hurt themselves, then no, i cant provide you with "proof". but anyone with a hint of intellect (or without biased denial) can see the writing on the wall and connect the dots as to MS's influence on its developers. Phil Spencer flat out said it they will focus on the GaaS model and try to duplicate the subscription based model of Netflix (Xbox Game Pass). and just so you know the article i linked was released 2 years before SoT's released, anyone who was paying attention at that time could have predicted what SoT's would become.