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[diffusionx]

Erm letting people make games out of the IP so people who love video games can play them?

Why would Microsoft give a shit about that

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Then what would you play on your PS5 since half of the top 10 in recent months are Activision games?

FTFY

 

[Evil Calvin]

I would almost say 'Fuck MS' but then again Sony doesn't release any games anymore.....and Nintendo only releases games for 5 year olds now (and hentai games). So really the whole industry is fucked.

 

[Banjo64]

Why would Microsoft give a shit about that

Microsoft wouldn't because they aren't in the industry for any positive reason.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Why would they cling to the IP which they tried everything to kill it?

 

[cireza]

We failed at doing shit with the IP, but we are still going to keep it for us.

 

[diffusionx]

Microsoft wouldn't because they aren't in the industry for any positive reason.

I'm just saying for a company standpoint holding an IP is basically free and gives you control over a property you may want to use in the feature. It may not work now but in 5 or 10 years maybe. So you're not just going to sell it to another company.

 

[Banjo64]

I'm just saying for a company standpoint holding an IP is basically free and gives you control over a property you may want to use in the feature. It may not work now but in 5 or 10 years maybe. So you're not just going to sell it to another company.

Yeah - except there is examples of companies doing just that because they aren't hoarding goblins with infinite Office pockets like Microsoft.

In fact in the creative industries there's lots of examples of companies doing business for IPs to ensure properties that people love receive new entries.

 

[UltimaKilo]

Why would they demand ownership of the IP? That was never going to happen.

 

[Germuso]

Ms is the worst company ever.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Oh you mean the crowd that dont own a ps5 and/or prefer to play their games on PCMR ? ...

Them and Xbox influencers/fanboys since late 2024, primarily.

Why would they demand ownership of the IP? That was never going to happen.

Why not? Microsoft's done piss-all with it in 20 years, it's less valuable now than when they bought Rare, by magnitudes.

They would've gotten more out of it selling the IP to Take Two than keeping it imprisoned in the vault to waste away.

Forfeiting IP is most often a bad idea. Companies should only do it if they have to in order to survive.

I'd agree in cases where the IP actually has market value, but Perfect Dark has almost none. The only reason it seemed like it would have market value this gen was because MS were reviving it with a reboot. Now that it's cancelled, it's gone back to being relatively worthless.

This is the same MS that passed on exclusivity rights to Spiderman for gaming, BTW. So them cancelling Perfect Dark isn't that big a shock. It's nowhere near as costly a mistake as passing on Spiderman financially-speaking, but it's absolutely hurt Microsoft's rapport with a segment of core gamers, mainly those who care about pre-2008 Rare.

The Initiative was genuinely an unrivaled disaster.

That's an open-and-shut statement there. No disagreement on that part.

This is pretty much Sega's big revival plans in a nutshell unfortunately. Nobody cares about Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi outside of video game forums.

Lots of younger gamers have been showing interest in classic SEGA stuff these days, as a growing segment of them are interested in retro gaming (for various reasons). It's not isolated to just gaming forums.

 

[MiguelItUp]

nobody wanted another perfect dark

That's honestly what it felt like to me, I didn't understand the "excitement" that was floating around the name. The 64 game was the most loved thing, and even then it sounds like more people loved Goldeneye as a whole. Then the 360 game came out and was not nearly as impactful as the 64 game. So, I was kind of curious as to why people saw the name and got excited. I'm guessing nostalgia?

 

[UltimaKilo]

Why not? Microsoft's done piss-all with it in 20 years, it's less valuable now than when they bought Rare, by magnitudes.

They would've gotten more out of it selling the IP to Take Two than keeping it imprisoned in the vault to waste away.

Because generally companies as big as MS don't give up large IPs.

 

[Mister Wolf]

I'm not heartbroken.

 

[nowhat]

So Microsoft literally just wants to sit on these IPs so no one can have them?

You're missing an "h" somewhere within that sentence.

 

[Moses85]

Microsoft

 

[Moses85]

nobody wanted another perfect dark

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Meh, MS should let someone else handle the IP. They aren't doing shit with it anyway and haven't since the 360 launched. They have a million IPs now and they have a willing buyer and a game.

 

[RedC]

 

[Germuso]

Chat gpt?

 

[RedC]

Chat gpt?

Sora

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Too bad they couldn't work out a deal where they could at least scrub the project of PD references and rework it into it's own IP. Unless it wasn't really that valuable/good outside of the attached IP.

 

[II_JumPeR_I]

5 years and all everyone got was what? 1 or 2 trailers? And googling it, it says the game started development in 2018. So it's really 7 years.

What a grift. How come I can never find a job like that? Work a ton of years making bank and have nothing to show for. LOL. Every job I've had you start as a noob and after maybe 3-4 weeks of getting your feet wet getting to know people and the role, you got to get on the ball and start producing.

Just imagine you at your job and after 7 years got nothing. And your best advice for execs is.... can you give us an 8th, 9th or 10th year? The team promises after a decade we'll have something ready.

I wish in finance I can coast and tell the VP of Finance, hey man.... can you give me 8 years to work on something? I'll have something to show everyone in year 9.

There's going to be people who'd worked there for 7 years who became millionaires making 7 years worth of high salaries + whatever other perks and benefits they got from MS. And add severance pay out on top of it.

Jup and thats happening with a lot MS games.
Working that slow should have consequences

 

[Matsuchezz]

Then what would you play on your PS5 since half of the top 10 in recent months are Microsoft games?

I didn't like the games MS produced before the big acquisitions and I didn't like the games the devs MS acquired that had always been on PS platforms since forever. And I still dont like them today.
Currently I am playing Horizon Zero Down remastered and I will jump to Forbidden West after it.
I have access to an Xbox series X, so I am not missing anything. I know MS games suck because I have tried them.

 

[Plague Doctor]

I'm not heartbroken.

If only that jaw could cut the bloated budget.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Lmao she's got a TMNT hand.

 

[Mister Wolf]

If only that jaw could cut the bloated budget.

That jaw belongs on an Easter Island statue.

 

[Porcile]

The game looked bad and nothing like Perfect Dark to begin with. The visual design and concept also looked like it was generated with AI.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

MS is basically the new EA now

Buy IP, destroy it, never allow anything to be done with it again

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

So glad MS owns so much IP so we'll never have to see any of it again.

 

[lh032]

Enough with perfect dark.

 

[Heisenberg007]

The deal fell through because Microsoft didn't want to part ownership with the Perfect Dark IP?

It's so stupid.

They would not make the game, and they won't let others make it either.

 

[Pedro Motta]

The sad thing is Crystal Dynamics will probably go down becuase of these fuckers.

 

[MayauMiao]

how can a massive corp like Microsoft be too retarded to make a fucking Perfect Dark game?

Hey now, its not just Microsoft. Sony did it too with Concord and now potentially Fairgame$, Marathon.