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Microsoft Studios |OT3| I thought they were supposed to be sold off by now
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Interesting!
Hey I guess you never know. Glenn clearly would love to make something like Dead Space again and Xbox doesn't have its own horror franchise yet or a horror exclusive in general yet.
A relationship between Bungie and Microsoft of first or second part would be something mediately incredible. Phil's tweet answering Bungie is his most favet tweet.
So if any of he accusations of Randy Pitchford are true, what's the thoughts of Microsoft stepping in and buying him out and putting someone else in charge of the studio. They are based in Texas...a region Klobrille mentioned to keep an eye on.
All the stuff happening at Gearbox has to be embarrassing for the studio and I could see a brain drain of their better developers with all the turmoil surrounding the company. If Randy is the person people are accusing him of being, he's best off selling high (right now).
All the stuff happening at Gearbox has to be embarrassing for the studio and I could see a brain drain of their better developers with all the turmoil surrounding the company. If Randy is the person people are accusing him of being, he's best off selling high (right now).
Crackdown 3.
I am sure it will. I thought that was the general consensus?
The game will at least survive thanks to GamePass. However, I have a gut feeling it won't be received well at all.
Jez also predicted Sea of Thieves would be the PUBG of 2018 (no offense jez, I still think are one the best journalist out there). Also Crapdown really are we 12.
EDIT: Not saying the game will do great
The way they're sending out with so little promotion and fanfare tells me Microsoft thinks the same thing. Hopefully it's solid, but it's out in a month and they still aren't talking about it.
This has to happen one way or another, as long as the new owner isn't as shit as Square. I need more Deus Ex in my life!
I am sure Spencer wanted the best for this game. (Multiple delays to make it better) but sometimes, a project is what it is. Not all of them will work.
I am just waiting for all the toxic comments of people cursing MS for canceling ScaleBound and not games like Crackdown.
I understand the difficulty of the game's development. If MS decides to stick with Crackdown, I would definitely be excited to see what can be done on more powerful hardware but realistic goals.
Of course it is.
Currently #1627 on Amazon.com!
I highly doubt it will make the NPD Top 20. But it might gain a following on Game Pass.
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Crackdown's obviously not going to be a massive seller (even if it reviews surprising well), but it can have a lot of success on Game Pass.
Some of you are going way to far with the studio acquisition talk at this point.
It's best to let Game Pass do the promoting when it's released.
Never made a secret out of the fact that I'm a big fan of the franchise.
Crackdown 3 will do fine.
Jez said there's a 0.00 chance Bungie and Microsoft get back together.
On another note, Staten has been kind of spinning in the wind at Microsoft relegated to projects like Recore. Hoberman and O'Donnell have their own small studios. What's the chances of getting the band back together for a new IP. They were able to perform magic once.
When you look at where Destiny doesn't stack up to the original Halo's, it's the cohesive world building, music and sandbox. Might be why the 800 employee behemoth can't recapture the magic.
Microsoft had multiple studios work on Crackdown so the strategy wouldn't be unheard of. Why it may work here is these guys worked together before.
On another note, Staten has been kind of spinning in the wind at Microsoft relegated to projects like Recore. Hoberman and O'Donnell have their own small studios. What's the chances of getting the band back together for a new IP. They were able to perform magic once.
When you look at where Destiny doesn't stack up to the original Halo's, it's the cohesive world building, music and sandbox. Might be why the 800 employee behemoth can't recapture the magic.
Microsoft had multiple studios work on Crackdown so the strategy wouldn't be unheard of. Why it may work here is these guys worked together before.
Some of you are going way to far with the studio acquisition talk at this point.
This is the thread for that type of talk. What's "way too far" with what I said?
I don't unde
0% chance. I don't think Staten andO'Donnell want to work with the guys that got them canned. Hell Marty sued Bungie and won, he probably wants to move on from them.
"That guy who was accused of being a pedophile, if it's true they should grab their studio." Like... really?
I didn't communicate that properly. I didn't mean get them back with Bungie. I meant group those 3 together without Bungie. If Certain Affinity keeps growing, maybe it's something developed by them.
I still see a MvC Infinite like situation with Crackdown3, both commercially and critically. Visuals and animations seem to be the aspects where the game is just dated, story will most likely get criticized for it's "cheesey" tone which is something that we can expect from a CD game. However gameplay still is the thing that can surprise people which was similar with how people felt about Recore's movement mechanics and overall feel.
Both SoD2 and SoT were able to get some better impressions thanks to post-launch updates. I do hope we get to see some continued support for both Wrecking Zone as the singleplayer campaign. Keys to the city-like dlc would be really welcome.
Both SoD2 and SoT were able to get some better impressions thanks to post-launch updates. I do hope we get to see some continued support for both Wrecking Zone as the singleplayer campaign. Keys to the city-like dlc would be really welcome.
I've brought up Gearbox before and people here said "no" because Randy is shit. If Randy has to sell off, leave the business and go far away, you'd let a decently large studio of people go under because they were tainted by who could be their former boss? I don't think it's gross to speculate who'd lead that studio if Randy is going away. What Randy potentially did is gross and evil. Not the rest of those employees.
Possibly. CA have worked with 343 before, Staten obviously works for MS, and Marty has always said he'd be willing to partner with them again if asked. So they have no issues working with Microsoft. If the opportunity came, and all parties were free, it'd be pretty neat.
You don't see whats wrong with paying off a potential pedophile, taking advantage of a disgusting situation to play executive on MS's shopping list? MS isn't going to touch that situation with a ten foot pole at arm length, T2 who is their publishing partner will have to negotiate that fucking mess if it's true. You don't jump at that sort of situation, at most you put a feeler out to grab talent or set up a team nearby. Plus some of his management appear to have known about it, it's not just Randy. I thinks it's a pretty distasteful conversation for this thread, I don't think thats a weird opinion at all.
FYI, accused =/= guilty. Until there's proof, he's as innocent as anyone else.
But you're acting like just because it might be true, that Microsoft shouldn't negotiate something at all.
In the end it wouldn't matter if it's true or not. Microsoft would have a AAA studio pretty much handed to them in a significant area, and Randy would be out of their hair.
Read it again then.
EDIT: You know what I ain't wasting my time on continuing this fucking bizarro conversation.
Yup. Seems like "innocent until proven guilty" has been lost.
I was bringing them up before this thing but I see your point. Don't want to dirty up this thread so I'm going to let it go.
Then and 4A are the studios I'd be thrilled to see them buy.
IO working on a Freedom Fighters reboot. Oh yes
This thread has really gone to shit in the last couple of pages eh. Hopefully we can get back to more grounded, mature, sensible and realistic discussions about the future of Microsoft's first party endeavours.
They would if they could I'm sure, but licensing issues will no doubt prevent that. Both of the musical and vehicle kind. Surprised Kamiya is a FH fan though.
They would if they could I'm sure, but licensing issues will no doubt prevent that. Both of the musical and vehicle kind. Surprised Kamiya is a FH fan though.
If we're talking studios owned by other pubs, buy off High Moon and Raven off of Activision!
Odd, why would Kaiyma care about this?
Odd, why would Kaiyma care about this?
I'm guessing, but probably because he's a huge fan of those games and doesn't own them digitally or he just became a fan of them playing Horizon 4 and wants to play the first two.
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