Nah, there's lots of teams making RPGs, and there will always be new teams formed to do so. It's a hugely popular genre. Plus, ain't nobody out there regulating monopolies within specific video game genres lol.

That said, I'm totally willing to trade Obsidian for Larian. Yep. I said it. Fight me, Xbots.

Damn really Obsidian

Not even Inexile. Obsidian.. kinda? like our Insomniac. Got two games in development (not counting Grounded). Although, I'd trade Obsidian and hell 343 for Insomniac. 

Would be fun if the industry could all do like trades and shit. Fantasy acquisition bookings

I will say, I feel Insomniac overall is still the best deal for their money's worth if you count output and quality. For MS, I feel like we need to wait to really see at least one of the games coming out. Like Avowed.

Yo I just thought, if they had waited to be acquired, I wonder how much they would be worth now. Maybe a cool billion or two? Crazy. WAtched that lawyer video on Activision. Pretty much MS got a good deal on them for their share price, where it would have been around 100 billion. 

HELLS NAW! Larian is fantastic but they don't have a broad type of RPG games as Obsidian has. Obsidian has great writing teams. Not as a great as Larians, but that would be a very uneven trade lol

Nah, I dig InXile. They got some top tier writers over there, and I believe that they'll make a massive leap forward with their games under MS. Not trying to slight Obsidian here, I think they're great too, and I'm not disputing that they're going to have a more consistent output than those other teams...but I also think they're going to ultimately be the most "standard" RPGs in the MS stable.

Obsidian is just off-brand Bethesda. I said what I said.

I guess this was the game that Jez was talking about.

So confirmation that all Activision Blizzard games will continue to be multiplat? With the biggest reason to get the games on Xbox/PC instead of PlayStation or Nintendo is that you can access them through Game Pass instead of forking over $60 or $70.

Wouldn't it actually be the other way around since Obsidian technically created the Fallout franchise?

Plus Obsidian still also makes those old school CRPG's like Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny whereas Bethesda makes one type of RPG game. 

Kind of a brilliant move by Microsoft keeping CoD multiplatform in this case. There are sooooooooo many casual gamers that only play CoD, and they get the latest CoD every year no matter how bad that years game is. That's why it's always the best selling game each and every year, no matter how panned it is among critics and gamers. And many of these casual gamers play it on PlayStation because that's what their friends are.

Now, with all the news about Xbox buying Activision, those casual gamers are going to hear more and more about Game Pass and how for only $15, you can play that years CoD. Suddenly, a huge influx of casual gamers are flocking to Xbox because why would they spend $70 on PlayStation whereas them and their friends can play for $15 on Xbox. 

So there's still going to be a lot of CoD gamers on PlayStation that Microsoft will now be making money off of, but there will be a HUGE influx of those casual gamers that will make the transition to Xbox and Game Pass.