The Epic Games vs. Apple lawsuit is impacting the gaming industry dramatically.
Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.
I guess.
How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )
At least it wouldn't be MS of all ppl destroying them.
MS really should let go Tango go like they did TFB here.
one was under Bethesda (Tango) the other under Activision (TFB). Clearly each one handled the separations of their subordinates differently.
"How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )"
Perhaps because Zenimax and ABK handles such matters differently based on their own internal policies as "independent" publishers.
Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future. Which could also be the reason why they ensured an exclusive partnership with TFB and its new game, before anyone else.
Sad and disgusting. But it is what it is.
Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately
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Goes right back to them as partners.
Okaaaaaay...
Id venture a guess that TFB working directly with MS was a better outcome than working through Activision to get to MS.
Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
It seems Black Ops 6 will be another "DLC" download added to the Call of Duty HQ app for all platforms when it launches later this year.
If they keep this up, nobody is going to be safe from being outed by Epic. I feel they will come after me for sharing the Unreal demo back when I was in school.
You know Epic is going to find themselves without a friend in the world as a result of this fight. And to think, this whole mess started solely because they wanted to circumvent Apple's terms by cutting Apple out on the Fornite microtransaction money..
I know Epic is funded by Tencent with 40% of the shares, But let's be real here. They already forced out internal secrets of both Sony and Microsoft. So unless they out Nintendo in some way, there goes Epic's future in the console space.
Then they're constantly attacking Valve, even bringing them into this lawsuit WHILE actively competing with Steam. So if Epic Game Store fails (which is likely without that fornite money), they can find themselves on the outs with the biggest PC store front.
Next there's Google, who Epic outed two days ago, publicly saying how Google's all put given up on Stadia. In turn, the same fight Epic is having with Apple, they can end up having with Google. And since Google own's Android, you can imagine how that could hurt Epic.
Not to mention how devs can see who got paid for what free games, which can create a barter's market because they can see what their peers are getting from Epic.
All in all, Epic can find themselves on an island all by themselves with the entire industry shutting them out, All because they want every bit of Fornite's revenue even thought they're operating on other companies stores and platforms.
Feel free to disagree. This is all my opinion.
THIS is the kind of company that people have been so loyal to? All those comments trashing epic just for giving games away and doing the same store exclusively stuff that valve has done too?
I honestly could never understand why anyone would defend corporate scum like gabe newell who taxes developers 30 percent and literally stopped making new games as soon as Steam became successful. All the stuff about steam having a monopoly is clearly true.
But hey the epic games store doesn't have user reviews so steam is clearly the best!
This won't fly. Steam, GOG, Epic, UPlay, etc. All those others have to do is offer their own CDKeys in the same manner.
Epic had that stupid 1984 ripoff free fortnight video locked and loaded before Apple even acted. They new exactly what they were doing and how Apple was going to respond. Epic knowingly violated their contract and planned to make themselves look like the victim. I hope they burn. I agree that all these other companies need to give more money to the devs. Sony should not charge for crossplay.... but epic is only out to try and be the next steam. They don't care about devs or consumers, and all this pro dev/consumer shit they do will only last as long as it takes to snuff out competition.