bananaking21 said:
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. |
No that's not how business works. MS may have plans and will push there way to some extent but you don't know for sure why SoTs is the way it is. You can only assume MS made them do it that way to make up an excuse to justify SoTs. What if Rare wanted it that way? They wanted to do a Blizzard? They always had a thing for priate themes and making a MMO isn't that hard to believe either.
I also believe when a CEO goes on stage claiming his giving freedom to a company to make whatever they want I will believe that because otherwise that's flat out lying and a big company like Rare will leak info that Phil had a gun to there heads the whole time. So unless you have actual proof rather than just assuming SoTs was MS's idea than I would rather see links to your source, otherwise SoTs was Rare's idea which happens to go the way of MS anyway.
More realistically is maybe some of the head employees at Rare also worked for MS and know what future Xbox features will be coming (GamePass) and that there ideas just mould together. Who knows. Either way this was claimed to be Rare's game by Rare themselves, and MS on multiple occasions.
