Ensemble Studios' Graeme Devine has stated that he believes Microsoft has made a mistake in shutting down the studios.
Talking to D+PAD last week, Devine stated:
"I've been working on Halo Wars for over 4 years, so I'm not about to walk away from a game I've spent four years of my life with. It'd be very easy for us to just mail it in and finish a game and sell that but we are not really in it for that. It's our proud shout to Microsoft, and the reason why their mistake is obvious."
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I think Crackdown would fit in a more turn-based tactics system via Xcom then a RTS type game play. Being able to customize multiple agents, deploying that group in an crime infested urban zone, going against other super powered enemy and fodder type thugs. The potential for that is huge if they won't do another successful, ground breaking, GOTY open world outing like Crackdown 3....
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Halo 3 at the top is correct the only thing id change is swap infinite and halo ce around.
Well, wouldn't be the first mistake they've made...
Microsoft makes plenty of mistakes. Their mistakes are even more evident when their biggest supporters (Bizarre Creations, Ensemble, Bungie, etc) don't even support them. It's hard for me to put faith in a company that not only is unable to fix its own hardware problems, but is also unable to manage even a handful of 1st-party developers.
(and lolololol flamebait! flamebait! Sony makes mistakes too. But we're not talking about Sony here, are we?)
They are unable to manage their own studios,how poor is that?How can you build faith in such companies like microsoft?Sad,sad,sad!Sony knows how to manage their first-party studios,thats why I love sony!
MS needs too get in check cause they are loosing alot of talent that if not treated well they are gona leave them and go somewhere else..That team has been working on HALO wars for 4 years and MS does that to them wow thats F up yo ...
does suck but if there opening a new studio with a lot of the same people then why doesn't the guy just go there if its just a change of name. Suppose he has his reasons.