Obsidian: Microsoft looking to extern-publish (mid-to-large size) independent studios

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Obsidian: Microsoft looking to extern-publish (mid-to-large size) independent studios - NeoGAF

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I thought I would split this off to its own thread since it has two interesting implications:
 1.) They're one of the only publishers going out of their way to sign mid-sized or larger independent studios, which is something they had seemingly been cutting back on.
 2.) It sounds like they are even approaching studios they previously canceled games with, even as recently as this generation.
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Originally Posted by Eurogamer
 
 

 
 As for Obsidian and Microsoft, whatever bridges were burned now sound repaired, and Urquhart maintains contact. He even says - in response to a question about how hard it is for independent developers to find work today, in an age where publishers do so much more internally - "Microsoft is looking..." which bodes very well.
 Currently, however, Obsidian's hands are full, the 175-person studio occupied across four and a half projects: the Tyranny expansion, Pillars of Eternity 2, a small Pathfinder card game, a small idea the studio is "spinning up" and a considerable something else. And I'll tell you a bit more about that next week as well.

 
Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-one-exclusive
 

darkknightkryta

I don't know.  Microsoft's corporate culture never changes.  I wouldn't go back to them if I had a studio and got burned by them.  

BananaKing

I don't know.  Microsoft's corporate culture never changes.  I wouldn't go back to them if I had a studio and got burned by them.  
studios need contracts to survive. so if they got a deal from MS and they had nothing better or nothing else, they would take it.

darkknightkryta

studios need contracts to survive. so if they got a deal from MS and they had nothing better or nothing else, they would take it.
Until Microsoft cuts funding and leaves you to die.  It's happened enough times.

Kerotan

Until Microsoft cuts funding and leaves you to die.  It's happened enough times.
They would probably prefer to die in 2 years rather then now though if they had no other choice.  

At lest MS would be paying their wages until then.  And maybe by that time a new opening would have emerged.

darkknightkryta

They would probably prefer to die in 2 years rather then now though if they had no other choice.  

At lest MS would be paying their wages until then.  And maybe by that time a new opening would have emerged.
Depends.  When you throw your entire company into a Microsoft project, you're pretty much stuck.  When they cut your funding, you die.  You're better off signing with someone else who doesn't have a history of leaving studios to die.

Ludicrous Speed

Like um.... Nintendo?  

Can't think of any other publisher who hasn't killed off their share of studios.