No not really the reason at all i said it but im not going to talk about it any further either.  YOu will either agree with me or not.  You dont agree with me which is fine

well youre wrong. Everyone is mad at them for making the deal, vgchartz melted out. whole front page was hate for MS: boycot TR etc. Neogaff aswell. 

I wonder how many times we get a "Sony fans are the worst" thread. Must be at least once a month.

Not sure Microsoft are the bad guys here. Very little of the hate seems to be going their direction. The real venom is being directed at Square and Crystal Dynamics.

A lot of people have bought every single Tomb Raider from the first on Playstation consoles. Then suddenly the rug is pulled. Jim Ryan has said that console exclusivity was not even offered to Sony, so it was obviously a spite move because of the share sell off. So all of the people that have ensured that the last Tomb Raider sold well above 2-1 on Sonys consoles suddenly find themselves punished by huge Corporations flexing their egos.

I totally understand the boycott of squares games by lots of fans. Mass unsubscribing of ff14 and people saying "Because of Tomb Raider," as a reason will have some effect. PS4 will be approaching 25+ million sold by Xmas 2015. If it is ugh last gen too and counting in PC, and in all truth why would it not be on Wii U too if sales for that platform continue to rise? That could be quite a few hundred million gone. If MS have paid only 20-30m for 6-12 months exclusivity this is the silliest business decision a company ever made. More so if the Rise is fully exclusive. I'm not even sure if it wasn't for the publicity that this would even shift many units 15 months from now.

For me personally I'm not too bothered either way. I can understand all sides. If the Tomb Raider Franchise crumbles into dust because of this deal though, the blame won't lie at my hands.

"no matter what microsoft does they hate on it while praising sony for whatever they do"

You can apply that to any fanbase. 

I didn't say that was the reason you said it, I meant that what you said adds to flame wars instead of doing what you apparently want to do (detract from flame wars). Saying Sony fanboys are the worst is looking at the world with bias. It's just that Sony is competing with everyone, which is why Sony fanboys seem to irritate more people.

I do believe Sony has the worst fanboys, and also believe they'd be cheering if TR was exclusive to them instead.

That's why the whole situation with TR was bullshit. If 90% of TR sales were on the Xbox, I could understand where SE was coming from with their decision, why waste money on making ports for platforms were the fanbase is very limited? But not only were the majority of sales from Playstation and PC, but the message if it was or wasn't a timed exclusive was horribly unclear, so they've just confused and angered the majority of their fanbase.

Did people overreact? Oh definitely but still, MS, CD and SE should have all expected that and they should have been prepared to deal with it, were they? Nope.

Yeah, just like Microsoft fanboys were cheering for TR becoming "exclusive". All fanboys are fanboys. For fuck's sake.

Yeah I already noted that in an early comment.