And they should do that by paying for the development of the title, not by paying for the title to not be ported anywhere else.
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Respawn: EA made Titanfall deal, only for one game, will work on PS4 later
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And they should do that by paying for the development of the title, not by paying for the title to not be ported anywhere else.
RedAssedApe
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spawn killed
TetraGenesis
Member
It's not basically, it's exactly that.
HovaHovito
Banned
Prob not
Pretty much. It's why people hate them.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Could they possibly add an expansion to the first game and rename it?
Who knows. Either way, even if it is one game this is a must have for Microsoft. They needed to lock this one up desperately and they did it. It was probably worth whatever amount they paid.
Who knows. Either way, even if it is one game this is a must have for Microsoft. They needed to lock this one up desperately and they did it. It was probably worth whatever amount they paid.
IHaveCandy
Banned
Well what else are they gonna spend that billion dollars for first party on ;-)
CassidyIzABeast
Member
UOENO
Basically how I feel as well.
Throwing money at EA to secure Titanfall doesn't make me want to buy your console Microsoft, it actually does the opposite.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I assumed it was just some random porn. What do you think it's from?
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Damn I'm sorry for Vince. 
Got screwed over hard. Wonder if they'll stay with EA for future games. Or maybe say fuck it and ask Sony to take them in.
Got screwed over hard. Wonder if they'll stay with EA for future games. Or maybe say fuck it and ask Sony to take them in. shocking
Because Zampella is probably bad at getting good contracts that prevents stuff like this?
Or, he could just as easily be lying to save face in front of games.
Unless someone held a gun to there head to sign with EA partners, its hard to shit on EA for this. Respawn took the money, respawn gave EA contractual rights, EA did its thing, business is business. The transparency as a consumer is nice, but if I'm EA, public venting of sad faces in reacting to me doing my job is probably not a great response.
Garrett 2U
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Heh, CBOAT will never be wrong in the hearts and minds
Mercury Land-Snake
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I'm assuming Titanfall 2 won't be published by EA unless there's a clause for first refusal in their contract. I feel bad for Zampella, he started his own company to have his independence only for a platform holder to moneyhat their publisher into a permanent exclusive for their first title. That's gotta be a shitty deal.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
I'm wondering the same!
Anyone who feels screwed should just get a decent PC, I mean it's not like Titanfall is super graphically intensive. If it's unable to run well on a mid range PC, I'd be shocked.
Considering no one told him until recently id guess not.
I get it's a royalties deal honestly.
TetraGenesis
Member
Lemme look. There was an article or something. You grab your source, I'll grab mine, and we'll reconvene here in 5 minutes. Ready? Break!
KaiserBecks
Member
Yes, and it looks like he wanted the first one to be multiplatform at a later date as well. Look what happened.
Technically, it's screwing gamers who don't want to buy an Xbox One.
Moneyhatting your game and UOENO.
Stuck at 720p and UOENO.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Major Nelson with the I told you so
zomgbbqftw
Banned
You sure EA isn't trying to kill their partnership? They can easily go else where and get the same or better deal.
Take-two needs an FPS franchise, they are swimming in GTA money, and love multiplats.
I don't give a fuck about titanfall, but I feel bad for Respawn - seems they are destinyed to be manhandled by their publishers.
Do you now admit you were wrong, and EA make the call, not MS?
Can Crusher
Banned
You still deny it? Even when the president of Respawn basically confirms it? How deliberately obtuse.
You realize Zampella just said permanent exclusivity was arranged recently correct?
Very lol.
Why? Why should they do that?
Tell me why a company should bankroll all the development of a product and assume all the risk when they can pay just enough to secure exclusivity?
EatinOlives
Member
Exclusives almost always means building a game from the ground up for a specific platform. "Almost always" being the keyword, because the exceptions are MS moneyhatting publishers to not release to competitors.
Nobody sane in the industry is happy about "exclusives" anymore. That stopped being beneficial for the developer long, long ago. Vince isn't happy, and rightfully so, because EA is stifling the success of Titanfall (which Vince cares about) in exchange for EA getting a couple bucks stuck in its thong (which Vince doesn't give a shit about).
"Can't see into the future"
The list of things that people want to hate CBOAT for is still getting longer.
For any sequel MS would go through Respawn IMO.
And CBOAT will always be wrong in some.
This is a super shitty situation, but you're right here. Titanfall is the only game that has me even tempted to get a X1 in the launch window (I have my doubts about the quality of a farmed out 360 version we have never seen, and I don't have a PC that can run the game). I can only imagine how much this must have cost them, there's no reason to believe the game wouldn't have done blockbusters on PS3/4 as well.
cebri.one
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It's obvious that MS changed the deal the had with EA. At E3, when asked, respawn devs never assured that TitanFall would not come to PS4. Something has changed since then.