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smroadkill15 on 19 August 2018
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Chazore said:
smroadkill15 said:
The problem with everyone's statement against the purchase is, now you've made it clear that you think MS should simply never buy up any new developers and become a better first party studio themselves because you think that will be the end for those developers. Clearly Phil Spencer is trying to change MS stigma of, "lack of good first party studios and games." How are they suppose to do that if they don't get at least some quality developers? It seems like it's a lose-lose situation for some of you, which is a bit annoying honestly for those that do want to see MS get better.

Right, so it's "annoying" for you that some of us don't want to see an IP and studio being snatched up and locked down tight to a platform and a crappy storefront, with a completely50/50 chance of dying?, right....

 

I find it more annoying thart you people that only live and breath MS, cannot think that MS could just I dunno, CREATE their own content, CREATE their own studios. No need at all in any point, past present or future to tell me "MS doesn't do it's own thinking", because it frigging has to in order to actually compete, rather than just literally buying up everyone else's ideas an concepts and spamming them without anything creative to show of their own.


Seriously, I'd be more for the company if they actually decided to pull their weight and go for full on unique studios of their own and unique P's, fully crafted by their own fully crafted studios, because that honestly shows far more effort than simply being a lazy rich kid and throwing money at your problems. No way on earth should we coin it as a rule that the rich kid getting more glory than the kid with honest to god talent and creativity of their own mind. Don't give a crap where you were raised, it's just bullshit to think that way.

I do not live and breath MS. I game on other systems as well. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but 4 of MS first party developers (5 if you include MS Casual Games) were created and 5 were picked up. I would say that is pretty good on them. I'm all for MS creating new studios, but which is more time consuming, cost more, and will take longer to get a product out? Creating a new studio of course. If you have been paying attention, you would know MS just created a new studio, but we likely won't see anything from them in the next 3-4 years. In the mean time, MS can purchase a studio such as Obsidian and get games pumped out quicker and with general knowledge of knowing it will likely be high quality.

It seems like Obsidian is looking for a publisher to pick them up. Would it be cool if some 3rd party publisher got them? Sure. I would have zero problems with that because they will get more exposure on more platforms. If they decide to become a first party developer for MS, this was their choice. MS didn't hold a gun to their head and force it. MS isn't some bad guy in this transaction, which you make it seem like they are the ones running the show. Obsidian could easily decline to MS. 

Btw, MS will not shut down Obsidian if they release good games for their platform or waste valuable resources with no results.