Spade said:
Exactly, remember how MS ruined Rare? |
I love the "Rare sucks because they don't make the types of games that I want them to make, anymore"
Imho, Viva Pinata and Sea of Thieves are amongst Rare's best, I played Rare Replay and honestly, I know it was a different time so it's unfair to judge them by todays standards but I hated most of them, Lol.
But Sea of Thieves is arguably one of Rare's most successful games ever now.
Spade said:
Yeah, seems like gamers have forgotten somehow, definitely need a reminder. Wonder if they would announce at E3 event. Add Sega in there for the lols as well. Also the narrative on how MS should use that money to invest in their own studios as if they haven't already done that. How many studios have expanded? They should at least expand Bethesda main, and or Obsidian to work on Fallout, but guessing that's a Todd Howard issue. Tango just announced they are expanding... you got 60 billion dollars, yeah let's just put that into expanding.. NAH. Need more studios to feed the beast. |
I'd doubt they would announce anything this E3, acquisitions take months so it would depend on when they started, I don't know if they would have been negotiating acquisitions during Activision-Blizzard's approval but maybe they'll start now because they have to internally realise that ABK isn't happening now.
The narrative fails on two parts.
Firstly it fails because it's exactly what they have been doing, over the past few years they've hired hundreds, they still have a large amount of open positions, they've opened studios in new locations for a few of their studios for further expansion and upgraded the HQ of others. They've expanded the studios in pretty much every way that you can think of.
Secondly it fails because that simply isn't how a business works, that money is earmarked for acquisitions, Microsoft using that money takes absolutely nothing away from being able to invest in their own studios, if Microsoft took $69bn from their bank and said "We're using it all on our Xbox Game Studios!" Shareholders would fucking kill them, Lol.
What would they even spend $69bn on their currently owned studios on? Want Microsoft to open 100 extra studios or something? Lol.
People act like this $69bn is all Microsoft has...Don't worry, they have billions extra sitting in the bank and they make billions every year to feed Xbox.
shikamaru317 said:
Nearly all of them. Back when I was doing my regular Xbox studio size updates 1+ year ago I saw quite alot of growth from most of their studios. Even more growth at most of them in the 1+ year since I stopped doing the studio size updates. Pretty much the only studios that haven't really grown at all since 3 or 4 years ago are 343 (which laid off most of their singleplayer division earlier this year), The Initiative (they shrunk from about 70 to about 50 devs after they decided to collab on Perfect Dark with Crystal Dynamics), and Double Fine (they have been around 80 ever since Xbox acquired them I believe). The biggest growers over the last few years meanwhile have been Playground, Obsidian, Compulsion, Rare, Ninja Theory, Machine Games, Zenimax Online, and Mojang. |
Worth saying that Double Fine is their own choice not to seek huge expansion as well. They've very clearly in the past said that they prefer to be a smaller studio, they don't want to be filled with hundreds, I believe it is something to do with not losing the culture of their studio.
Obsidian has actually said something similar in the past, they said they like their small teams and don't want to become a massive AAA studio, that may change if they want to do Fallout (I know Feargus wants to do it) but they've already confirmed they won't start a new project until late 2023 IIRC.
Not every studio wants to expand to huge numbers.
| Spade said: This still just formalities?
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It was almost definitely something in the works and near completion before the CMA made their decision, it is likely more for Europe's benefit anyway to convince the EC.
It doesn't really matter, Microsoft could sign a deal with every Cloud Gaming Provider in the world, aside from Google (Lol), Amazon and Sony, big and small, they could all say they support the deal, the CMA will still say all those Cloud companies are wrong, they know what is best for them and block the deal still, Lol.
