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Mr Puggsly on 09 October 2018
PwerlvlAmy said:
Not a big fan of obsidian but hopefully they come up with something good once acquired

Obsidian isn't really a company people praise a lot, but its a studios that has worked on a numerous well received games. Whether it be Fallout: New Vegas, Southpark: Stick of Truth, KOTOR2, or Pillars of Eternity.

If MS is buying this studio, that tells me they want to create some RPGs. Something their 1st party lineup lacks at the moment.



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PwerlvlAmy on 09 October 2018
Mr Puggsly said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
Not a big fan of obsidian but hopefully they come up with something good once acquired

Obsidian isn't really a company people praise a lot, but its a studios that has worked on a numerous well received games. Whether it be Fallout: New Vegas, Southpark: Stick of Truth, KOTOR2, or Pillars of Eternity.

If MS is buying this studio, that tells me they want to create some RPGs. Something their 1st party lineup lacks at the moment.

Yeah im anxious to see the results of all these purchases when next gen comes. 



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flashfire926 on 09 October 2018
John2290 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
I hope not, I really like Obsidian and don't want to stop supporting them

This and it's bad PR snaking studios, they need to grow their own or they'll only build spite among gamers like they did with RoTR. As well as the catastrophe waiting to happen of a studio that is perceived to be locked down releases a bad game on the next box... it'll bite them royally. They'll be seen as the EA like studio killer. 

Just grow your studios MS. Don't snake the talent when you're an underdog. No one will route for you eith tactics like that and you'll not only hurt yourselves but the studios you acquire and the industry as a whole. I'm one of the people who was routing for you after e3 and such amazing steps being put into place, I even overlooked the NinjaTheory buy as something that wad needed for headlines to push the other news of growing four other studios which was one of my favourite developers (Heavenly sword, DMC reboot, Hellblade). I like obsidian less, as they are hit and miss but these tactics are something that makes me feel spite and much, much less likely to buy your next box even if Obsidian make a Divinity tier ARPG or a New Vegas tier third person RPG. 

Just grow your own talent and cultivate it and you have a chance at reaching Sony and Nintendo levels in 6-20 years and I'll be aboard to throw my money to support that growth. But this... just count me out. 

Do you also spite Sony for buying Naughty Dog, Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Evolution, Sony Liverpool, Bend, Geurilla Games, Polyphony, etc? Those werent exactly grown from the ground up.



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 09 October 2018
John2290 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
I hope not, I really like Obsidian and don't want to stop supporting them

This and it's bad PR snaking studios, they need to grow their own or they'll only build spite among gamers like they did with RoTR. As well as the catastrophe waiting to happen of a studio that is perceived to be locked down releases a bad game on the next box... it'll bite them royally. They'll be seen as the EA like studio killer. 

Just grow your studios MS. Don't snake the talent when you're an underdog. No one will route for you eith tactics like that and you'll not only hurt yourselves but the studios you acquire and the industry as a whole. I'm one of the people who was routing for you after e3 and such amazing steps being put into place, I even overlooked the NinjaTheory buy as something that wad needed for headlines to push the other news of growing four other studios which was one of my favourite developers (Heavenly sword, DMC reboot, Hellblade). I like obsidian less, as they are hit and miss but these tactics are something that makes me feel spite and much, much less likely to buy your next box even if Obsidian make a Divinity tier ARPG or a New Vegas tier third person RPG. 

Just grow your own talent and cultivate it and you have a chance at reaching Sony and Nintendo levels in 6-20 years and I'll be aboard to throw my money to support that growth. But this... just count me out. 

Your bias is showing, John .... 



darkenergy on 09 October 2018
John2290 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
I hope not, I really like Obsidian and don't want to stop supporting them

This and it's bad PR snaking studios, they need to grow their own or they'll only build spite among gamers like they did with RoTR. As well as the catastrophe waiting to happen of a studio that is perceived to be locked down releases a bad game on the next box... it'll bite them royally. They'll be seen as the EA like studio killer. 

Just grow your studios MS. Don't snake the talent when you're an underdog. No one will route for you eith tactics like that and you'll not only hurt yourselves but the studios you acquire and the industry as a whole. I'm one of the people who was routing for you after e3 and such amazing steps being put into place, I even overlooked the NinjaTheory buy as something that wad needed for headlines to push the other news of growing four other studios which was one of my favourite developers (Heavenly sword, DMC reboot, Hellblade). I like obsidian less, as they are hit and miss but these tactics are something that makes me feel spite and much, much less likely to buy your next box even if Obsidian make a Divinity tier ARPG or a New Vegas tier third person RPG. 

Just grow your own talent and cultivate it and you have a chance at reaching Sony and Nintendo levels in 6-20 years and I'll be aboard to throw my money to support that growth. But this... just count me out. 

You should tell that to Sony as well.



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jason1637 on 09 October 2018

"MS needs to work on their first party so it can be better and give me reasons to buy an Xbox"
MS buys a quality studio.
"Microsoft is going to ruin them and shut them down"
This thread in a nutshell.



Oneeee-Chan!!! on 09 October 2018

I'm jealous .



starcraft on 09 October 2018
Bofferbrauer2 said:
I hope not, I really like Obsidian and don't want to stop supporting them

So...don't stop supporting them?



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Spade on 09 October 2018
John2290 said:
I don't have the energy for everything above. :(

Translation: I have no real rebuttal. 

OT: Great purchase if true, will definitely bolster their first party, give us Xbots an RPG. 



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COKTOE on 09 October 2018
flashfire926 said:
John2290 said:

This and it's bad PR snaking studios, they need to grow their own or they'll only build spite among gamers like they did with RoTR. As well as the catastrophe waiting to happen of a studio that is perceived to be locked down releases a bad game on the next box... it'll bite them royally. They'll be seen as the EA like studio killer. 

Just grow your studios MS. Don't snake the talent when you're an underdog. No one will route for you eith tactics like that and you'll not only hurt yourselves but the studios you acquire and the industry as a whole. I'm one of the people who was routing for you after e3 and such amazing steps being put into place, I even overlooked the NinjaTheory buy as something that wad needed for headlines to push the other news of growing four other studios which was one of my favourite developers (Heavenly sword, DMC reboot, Hellblade). I like obsidian less, as they are hit and miss but these tactics are something that makes me feel spite and much, much less likely to buy your next box even if Obsidian make a Divinity tier ARPG or a New Vegas tier third person RPG. 

Just grow your own talent and cultivate it and you have a chance at reaching Sony and Nintendo levels in 6-20 years and I'll be aboard to throw my money to support that growth. But this... just count me out. 

Do you also spite Sony for buying Naughty Dog, Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Evolution, Sony Liverpool, Bend, Geurilla Games, Polyphony, etc? Those werent exactly grown from the ground up.

If you were to take a closer look at the developers you've listed, do you think you could find differences that would mark any of them as poor comparisons to the potential MS purchase of Obsidian?



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