Gamer_By_Proxy
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I mean, they literally just needed time and money. That's all MS can do. They contributed nothing to it creatively and I bet that series is dead or will get worse fully under MS now.
Which UBI IP should Phil Spencer and XBOX purchase?
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I mean, they literally just needed time and money. That's all MS can do. They contributed nothing to it creatively and I bet that series is dead or will get worse fully under MS now.
San Dan Glokta
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Don't give them any ideas. They will buy Steam.
ANIMAL1975
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Assassin's creed Shadows breh?Citing this report.
You are Phil Spencer. Which Ubisoft IP do you buy?
I heard the Rabbids were going for cheapwww.polygon.com
Personally I would pick Prince of Persia
Guilty_AI
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If ubisoft owned steam, we'd been doomed long ago
Little Chicken
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Depends on whether you're viewing them as a developer or a publisher. A publisher that allows delays and increased budgets is enabling creativity. MS as a developer have been plenty creative themselves with FH and AoE.
PharaoTutAnchAmun
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What about none zipp zero nadda, they fucked up enough formaly good studios, ore closed them..and fucked up good franchises...enough is enough...
Buggy Loop
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Tom Clancy in general, Splinter cell especially.
They've been neglected but the old games were some of the best tactical fps around.
They've been neglected but the old games were some of the best tactical fps around.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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Copy and paste games in a new environment with nothing new setting them apart. Hardly creative.
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noob smokes
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Let them grab all the tom clancy joints it might light a fire under sonys ass to revive socom
What IP's do they need to unfuck?
Hudo
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Well, from their core IPs: Halo (or rather Halo Studios, actually), Fable, Forza Motorsport.
Then we have Bethesda Game Studios, which they have to unfuck; Fallout 4 was mid at best, Fallout 76 launched in a horrible state. Starfield was mid. Let's see if Bethesda also manage to fuck up the next Elder Scrolls
Then we have Blizzard, shitting out Diablo 4, which was mid and, even as a live-service game, horrible executed. Beaten by Path of Exile 2. StarCraft is pretty much dead, and they've cancelled their survival game they had in production (thank God).
Then we have the whole of Activision. They've got pretty much every developer in the Call of Duty mines. Minus the Tony Hawk games. And while Call of Duty is successful, all of Activision's other IPs are just fucking dead.
Then we have Rare, who have been stuck making Everwild for years and years now.
Then we have Obsidian. Yes, they are at least productive and actually putting out games. But their last couple of efforts were just "OK". With Pentiment being a rare exception. I am pretty sure that Microsoft aren't completely happy with how Obsidian are.
Ninja Theory have just released a nice tech demo but pretty much a dud as a game.
Undead Labs are also taking forever to get State of Decay 3 out the door...
And we have a lot of dead IPs in general. And lots of wasted potential in general.
I mean, there is more than enough to unfuck. Buying new IPs is retarded., when they can't even manage their current IPs (and studios) correctly.
That being said, they do some good work with Flight Simulator, Age of Empires and Machine Games.
TehGoomba7s
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Seeing MS waste even more money then scramble to make it back to save themselves would be a funny one
rodrigolfp
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Ubi doesn’t own PoP.
ExtendEmbraceExtinguish
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All. If I have to narrow it down; all Tom Clancy titles.
Shubh_C63
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Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Siege
Its under #15 most played game on Steam consistently for years, works well in Gamepass environment, beautiful ground for microtransactions galore.
Why would any publisher wouldn't pick this massively successful game.
If we are talking about cheap gets, Maybe For Honor. Again works great as GaaS for Gamepass.
Its under #15 most played game on Steam consistently for years, works well in Gamepass environment, beautiful ground for microtransactions galore.
Why would any publisher wouldn't pick this massively successful game.
If we are talking about cheap gets, Maybe For Honor. Again works great as GaaS for Gamepass.
AJUMP23
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Does Mecner own it?
pudel
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What you mean with save themselves? They could stop tomorrow with "gaming" at all and it might not even make a huge dent in their yearly profits.
rodrigolfp
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Afaik, yes. Ubi needs to pay him for every game.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Where's the vote for "None"?
For starters this would probably violate the terms set by the CMA & EC in MS getting ABK as Ubi have the cloud licensing for Xbox titles in Europe.
Secondly (and more importantly IMO), MS already own too many big market IP and it is never a good thing when one company consolidates a major chunk of big market IP through M&As. Having organically made those IP from scratch and curating them to become massive is one thing; simply buying your way to it is another and arguably quite anticompetitive.
And no it doesn't matter if MS are a "traditional console platform holder" or not anymore; that has little bearing in this. Let's see MS actually try creating a whole new IP from the ground-up to match what they've purchased, before e-gasming over them buying up yet more major IP.
For starters this would probably violate the terms set by the CMA & EC in MS getting ABK as Ubi have the cloud licensing for Xbox titles in Europe.
Secondly (and more importantly IMO), MS already own too many big market IP and it is never a good thing when one company consolidates a major chunk of big market IP through M&As. Having organically made those IP from scratch and curating them to become massive is one thing; simply buying your way to it is another and arguably quite anticompetitive.
And no it doesn't matter if MS are a "traditional console platform holder" or not anymore; that has little bearing in this. Let's see MS actually try creating a whole new IP from the ground-up to match what they've purchased, before e-gasming over them buying up yet more major IP.
Blank Space Invader
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None. Clueless big companies shouldn't just buy things from clueless smaller companies because money. Microsoft has done nothing with everything they gobbled up. Big business has ruined gaming and it strikes me as sad that so many people are not smart enough to see that, and think everything is fine and that these trends should continue.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Also just to build off that, I'll go through the OP's IP and say which publisher or studio is likely the best fit for them (IMO):
For Honor: SIE/SSM (b/c I'm still intrigued by cancelled GOW game they wasted Bluepoint on)
Rabbids: Nintendo
Rayman: Nintendo
Beyond Good and Evil: Nintendo or SIE (maybe Team Asobi?), or Capcom
The Crew: Raw Thrills (Arcade/FEC dev, I think MK's John Tobias set it up) or SEGA (Bandai-Namco 3rd pick)
Prince of Persia: The studio Fumito Ueda is with now
Just Dance: Likely Nintendo, but now with Nintendo characters
Might and Magic: CDPR or Larian Studios
Watch Dogs: Bandai-Namco (but give it an anime makeover)
Tom Clancy Rainbow 6: I guess Valve
Tom Clancy Splinter Cell: Kojima Productions & SIE (co-development)
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Maybe SIE/Guerrilla Games (just to see another FPS from them not Killzone) or Valve
For Honor: SIE/SSM (b/c I'm still intrigued by cancelled GOW game they wasted Bluepoint on)
Rabbids: Nintendo
Rayman: Nintendo
Beyond Good and Evil: Nintendo or SIE (maybe Team Asobi?), or Capcom
The Crew: Raw Thrills (Arcade/FEC dev, I think MK's John Tobias set it up) or SEGA (Bandai-Namco 3rd pick)
Prince of Persia: The studio Fumito Ueda is with now
Just Dance: Likely Nintendo, but now with Nintendo characters
Might and Magic: CDPR or Larian Studios
Watch Dogs: Bandai-Namco (but give it an anime makeover)
Tom Clancy Rainbow 6: I guess Valve
Tom Clancy Splinter Cell: Kojima Productions & SIE (co-development)
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Maybe SIE/Guerrilla Games (just to see another FPS from them not Killzone) or Valve
TehGoomba7s
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Sorry let me rephrase, Xbox division not MS as a whole. And I mean scrambling to recoup the money they spent. They are getting trounced in the console space, they are desperately trying to recoup that 80bn they spent the past five years. The last thing they need to do is sink even more money to stay irrelevant.What you mean with save themselves? They could stop tomorrow with "gaming" at all and it might not even make a huge dent in their yearly profits.
Matsuchezz
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Xbox Studios have stomach hands, everything they touch turns to shit!! They need to stick to what they own and create new games.
Perrott
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Take-Two should grab all Tom Clancy's properties, since they've alwars lacked a strong foot in the military shooter market.
Electronic Arts should take Watch_Dogs, as it is the open-world action/adventure game and GTA competitor they've always wanted, and reboot it while recapturing the serious, mature tone of the very early gameplays of the original WD from 2012/2013.
Also, let Sony buy back WiLD and all the work that had gone into it.
Electronic Arts should take Watch_Dogs, as it is the open-world action/adventure game and GTA competitor they've always wanted, and reboot it while recapturing the serious, mature tone of the very early gameplays of the original WD from 2012/2013.
Also, let Sony buy back WiLD and all the work that had gone into it.
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