They are in the middle of the ABK deal or im certain they would of bought those studios. It only make sense how cheap they were and how close they are working with their own studios.
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Fable might have been scaled down due to engine issues and lack of wrpg expertise. Could release later than expected.
How does this make any sense?
Might as well attack MS for hiring devs for Playground’s second team.
A whole long thread about how Playground would need devs with RPG/Third person experience and you’re somehow unhappy that Playground is engaging experienced developers to build out an expansive, open world RPG?
Again, it was announced about 2.5 years ago. Why do we keep having these posts that pretend there’s a hard and fast rule about length of time between announcement and gameplay deep dive?
digoutyoursoul
Member
Everwilld, State of Decay 3, Fable, Perfect Dark
https://www.dualshockers.com/xboxs-phil-spencer-dont-want-to-show-trailer-things-2-3-years-away/
https://www.dualshockers.com/xboxs-phil-spencer-dont-want-to-show-trailer-things-2-3-years-away/
Banjo64
cumsessed
Please spare me the drivel.
I read that The Initiative was always supposed to be a small team and would need support, hence why CD was brought on board. No need to panic.
Now PG have been working on Fable since 2017, have been recruiting since then and have the main PG studio to tap in to (alongside all of Microsoft’s first party studios) and now you want me to believe that it’s perfectly normal that they’d need not just agency staff, but the entirety of Edios Montreal?
Laughable. This is laughable from Xbox. You trying to normalise it is laughable. Embarrassing.
StealthGoblin
Banned
There isn’t a hard and fast rule, but the longer it is just makes the wait worse.
IMO the two best reveals last gen were Horizon and GOW 2018. Both were extended gameplay. Spider-Man got a gameplay demo a year after release.
In the past Spencer spoke about not wanting to do reveals years away from release yet here we are with many Xbox games.
I don’t care which publisher does it, but I think announcements too far out are a turn off.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
why green influencers are trying to dismiss the "MS/Xbox are bad at studios/brand Management" and at the same time, see Acti-Blizz acquisition as MS flexing over evil Sony who is afraid to compete and innovate? .
Every big AAA production uses outside help. Usually it’s support pulled from sister studios.
From MS point of view, it makes more sense to use idle dev talent from Eidos Montreal vs pull internal devs from their own projects to support Playground.
Not my fault you’re close-minded about this.
No hard and fast rule. Elden Ring, for example, didn’t get a gameplay trailer until 2 years post announcement.
Different realities come to play when you’re kicking off a new generation. Showing people stuff that they can expect to play over the course of the generation is understandable.
Playground games made 5 well received AAA racing games in 11 years. I’m not sure how you’re going to spin them as ‘mismanaged’ but I’m sure you’ll give it a try.
Solarstrike
Gold Member
Banjo64
cumsessed
Should be easy for you to name 10 examples of entire studios being bought on board from Sony or Nintendo if it’s such a mainstream practice (without using Google).
What you’re trying to convince people of here, is that Playground’s second team and The Intitiative aren’t even teams at all, but half teams (or less). I don’t know what Microsoft’s angle is with any of this - but it looks amateurish all day long.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
See. Proving my point. Is like autopilot parroting or something.
ResilientBanana
Member
this thread is baseless and abysmal
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Is not.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
But your Xbox's Insider expert analyst Jezz Corden reported and talked about it.
Can you point me in the direction of where it is confirmed the entirety of Eidos is working on this?
Should be easy for you to name 10 examples of entire studios being bought on board from Sony or Nintendo if it’s such a mainstream practice (without using Google).
What you’re trying to convince people of here, is that Playground’s second team and The Intitiative aren’t even teams at all, but half teams (or less). I don’t know what Microsoft’s angle is with any of this - but it looks amateurish all day long.
It looks amateurish to amateurs.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Oh that hurts. Man... shit, what will I do now? You posted a meme to prove your point...