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famousringo on 09 September 2008
Bonafide732 said:
why would they do that

 

Until further information comes to light, I'm sticking with my guess that an accountant at MS figured that publishing deals and moneyhats are a more cost-effective way to promote Microsoft's platforms than directly investing in development.

You have to admit that it's strange for Microsoft to cite "fiscal" reasons when ensemble has such a reputation for good-selling games.



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pbroy on 09 September 2008

Maybe the company was have problems internally with the staff.

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Bingoo on 09 September 2008

umm wtf microsoft. Are you a bunch of retardes? (haha=p)

no seriously tho, i just dont have any idea as to why they are doing this.

Why dont you guys just not have any exclusives at this point...



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Gobias on 09 September 2008
starcraft said:
This could have a very positive effect on the Xbox 360. Ensemble contributes almost nothing to the console, and their only real 360 asset (Halo Wars) is still coming out. If the new studio and the devs going to other internal studios build better games for the 360 it will have been a successful move for Microsoft.

But I still hate it. Age of Empires.....dear god....

That is some spin right there.

 



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Griffin on 09 September 2008

The thing that i really want to know was who is going to patch their games. AoE3 and its two expansions have had countless patches and they still never made the civs balanced. I would hate to see how Op certain units and tactics will be in Halo Wars with zero patches.



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BottledSpringWater on 09 September 2008
Gobias said:
starcraft said:
This could have a very positive effect on the Xbox 360. Ensemble contributes almost nothing to the console, and their only real 360 asset (Halo Wars) is still coming out. If the new studio and the devs going to other internal studios build better games for the 360 it will have been a successful move for Microsoft.

But I still hate it. Age of Empires.....dear god....

That is some spin right there.

 

 

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disolitude on 09 September 2008

meh. RTS studio closes down...comand and conquer 3 and halo wars still coming out. life goes on...



pbroy on 09 September 2008
Gobias said:
starcraft said:
This could have a very positive effect on the Xbox 360. Ensemble contributes almost nothing to the console, and their only real 360 asset (Halo Wars) is still coming out. If the new studio and the devs going to other internal studios build better games for the 360 it will have been a successful move for Microsoft.

But I still hate it. Age of Empires.....dear god....

That is some spin right there.

 

 

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badgenome on 09 September 2008
Griffin said:
The thing that i really want to know was who is going to patch their games. AoE3 and its two expansions have had countless patches and they still never made the civs balanced. I would hate to see how Op certain units and tactics will be in Halo Wars with zero patches.

"Though Microsoft will close the studio, Ensemble brass plan to soldier on. As part of today's statement, the studio said that 'the leadership team' will form a new development house, and has already entered into an agreement with Microsoft to continue supporting Halo Wars post-launch, 'as well as work on other projects with Microsoft Game Studios.'"

 



scottie on 09 September 2008

Griffin, read the OP, Ensemble have a deal with MS to patch the game as required

Wow, I'm confused by why MS did this, seems odd.

Anyway, if most the programmers stay with MS then this'll have little effect, if most stay with Ensemble then it means multiplatform games hopefully

And why do you all care so much about Age of Empires? Like the warcraft franchise was made obsolete by AoE, Empire Earth made AoE obsolete (just throwing that out there)