Thank you.  

 It's not exactly the same and you know it's exactly the same, that's exactly why you phrased it the way you did. Why are you letting me talk down on you so many times ?

"Spending money on developement" is a clever way to make like you are part of an ongoing endevour. But it is an  ongoing endevour nonetheless since the game already has been "well into production" since 2013. Funding (same root as fundamental by the way) sounds like you are part from the ground up. Which is not the case.

I dont really think you are.  I just think youre choosing to believe what you want to belive

We are making circles, it does not matter if MS published the game on one platform if they don't have the exclusive rights.

Spending money on dev does not mean funding, funding is what you need to start from the ground up. It's semantics, the reason this thread is a missleading.

If you're going to argue semantics, you should at least agree that "spending money on development" is not the same as "funding". It could mean "partially funding", how much we have not been told.
Because when you put "funding" in the title, it implies that MS is footing the entire bill, which we alk know is not true.
So, instead of publishing and funding, the correct title would be :" partnering with SE to publish, and partially funding TR".

But I believe, I know, that the title was not made musleading on purpose. It was just an honest mistake while trying to shorten it not to take up 5 lines of text. And I have no problem with the title as is right now, when reading Spencer's interviews we all know the exact nature of the deal.

Actually it doesn't matter if MS has exclusive right or not. Did they publish DR3 on Xbox One? Yes? Okay then, move along.

I don't think you really understand how funding the money flow works. These people making TR don't get paid all of their money upfront. The marketing doesn't all get paid for years in advance of release. It's as if you think Crystal emailed Square a bill for TR and Square paid it in 2013 and now they just kick back and wait for the game to come.

All I care about in that last sentence is you admitting it's semantics. Who cares. Idk who to trust more on the issue, Phil Spencer or dude complaining on VGC.

I can not believe this is really an argument -_-

Funding means giving someone  financial support. Microsoft is giving SE and CD their financial support for ongoing development (AKA Funding)

• fund·ing
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1. money: financial support

What kind of logic dectates that leaving out a partner in such a deal is in anything but not missleading ?!

About the "funding"; CD is not a freelance contractor, it's a subsidiary of SE. So it kinda does work as I implied.

And don't make me quote the dictionary definition of  "semantics". On a second thought let me give you mine: the devil is in the details.

No, you didn't believe you'd get called out like this.

Take notes from Phil and how he words things: this is not financial support, this is a temprary publishing deal for a game under developement.

Please just stop......I did not believe it was hard to understand this.