Originally Posted by
minteK917
Could happen, this would actually be a good day. Somehow EA manages to be more crooked then microsoft and microsoft pretty much own an entire market with no real competition (OS) and still doesent manage to be as scummy as EA.
Not a big fan of Microsoft, but they seems to have way more respect for studios then EA or Activision does for example. Under microsoft companies like Bungies did fine, under activision they are doing cash grab garbage? When bioware wasent garbage... Jade empire, Mass Effect where published by Microsoft. I can hardly recall any Microsoft published game that was garbage due the publishing practices? All the classic age of empires. GFW was pretty much their only terrible idea and they eventually scrapped it.
I think it has more to do with them being console sellers, kinda like Sony or nintendo. Finding fault in their publishing is hard because they really dont seems to strangle their studios for extra money outside of providing them exclusive games. I mean for example bioware and dice again, im 100% certain Mass Effect andromeda or Star wars battlefront would never have been what it was if the publisher was Microsoft or Sony. But it would be exclusive to their consoles. But at this point you gotta see whats better, a good exclusive game or the garbage multi platform we got instead?
Hell you cant even say multiplatform publisher like EA are better at PC games/ports, their PC games hardly ever work right until 1-2 patches? Microsoft published very little PC port, but theirs worked from the start lol.
If i was a studio that put my creativity above earning every single possible penny but possibly killing my business medium term. Id either go CD project route or id try to get under the wings of Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo as the lesser evil before i go anywhere near multiplatform publisher.