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[Raw64life]

SMH at the people who can't tell the difference between collaborating with and funding a developer for a new IP in exchange for making it exclusive to their platform and dropping a mountain of a cash on a developer and telling them to stop making their already in development sequel for other platforms and just put it on theirs.


But between

...and...

Person that told me about many MS 'things' previously is telling me it's indeed a timed exclusive.

I'm going to go with timed exclusive. It's obvious that MS doesn't want people to know this so they're going to be as vague as possible about the nature of the exclusivity.

 

[D4Danger]

a ballsy move that again highlights how creatively bankrupt Microsoft are.

I liked the reboot so I'll probably just wait for the pc version if the comments here are right.

 

[Kadin]

Because its a well received series going from multiplatform to exclusive for seemingly no reason (besides $ obviously). This obviously isn't a Bayonetta 2 situation where the game simply would never get made without said company fronting the costs. Its one thing if a series starts and stays exclusive, but when they build up a fanbase on other platforms and then do something like this saying lolnopenotforyou! it makes people pissed.

Alright I can accept that as a partial reason why. Funny how that immediately made me think about when Final Fantasy went from the days of the SNES to then exclusively over on Sony's consoles going forward. Until recently that is...

It just seems to me that devs and console companies have been playing this game far longer than people remember. We're getting close to having everything on every platform but I still see stuff like this happening for a long, long while.

 

[jiiikoo]

Didn't see this coming. I wouldn't have minded if it was a timed exclusive, but full-on exclusive sucks. I'm not sure if I will get an Xbox One ever (haven't decided, wanting it for Halo 5, but we'll see) so guess there's no way to play this.

 

[Blastoise]

What about if "rise of the tomb raider" is exclusive to xbone, and the pc and ps4 version have a different name.

 

[Skele7on]

Judging by the thread Microsoft wanted this. People have gone nuts.

Now if it actually is a timed thing which I believe it is, would anyone be as upset/mad?

Probably not.

 

[darkwing]

So to decode this message. |=1 :=2 <= less than

so less than 12 months. 2 ds on timedd. You only need half of those ds/ 1/2 of 12 months= 6 months.

pretty good detective work, 6 months is more than likely

 

[iNvid02]

this is actually an elaborate marketing stunt where the game will eventually rise to the top of the charts when it comes out on other platforms.

its the long con, bravo se, bravo.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Can you people enlighten me ?

Who is crazy buttocks on a train ?

Why you all believe him ?

In a distant nebula, far away from our young galaxy, lay a race of superior beings known as The Buttocks. Their planet looks like a pair of fine, well-sculpted glutes and smells of sandalwood, strawberry with a hint of burrito. There was a special agent on said planet who went by the code name: CBOAT. He was forced to flee his home world due to an invasion from the Bismol Empire. He stumbled upon our world in search of a planet which could sustain his life-cycle.

Disguised as a mild-mannered human, he blended in and eventually found that Earth is accommodating enough to live permanently on. The rest is history... on NeoGAF. Believe™.

Spoiler

im still half asleep

 

[theviolenthero]

We always have multi-plat games one generation go exclusive the next generation.
We've already seen it with Sonic and Bayonetta on the Wii U & of course Sony has their own lined up.

 

[RoKKeR]

Timed exclusivity - Everyone owning one of the major platforms gets to play the game sooner or later
Purchasing an IP - Only owners of the moneyhatter's platform get to play the game (and possible sequels) ever

As a consumer, why would you prefer the latter?

Was making that comment from the perspective of Microsoft. If I want to sell more consoles and think this game is the key, then I shell out for the whole nine yards. It doesn't accomplish anything in my opinion from a business standpoint for Microsoft if people are just going to buy it on the other platforms later.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Mononoke]

The beauty is people don't have to boycott the game. It was built into the exclusivity deal.

Well, I'm an X1 owner and I wasn't going to buy the game because I don't agree with the business practice, and don't want to support that sort of thing. But lol I see what you mean.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

cboat just became Microsoft public enemy #1

Spoiler

again.

Yeah no. Maybe if he leaked this. He is just confirming what we already know.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Mission accomplished. Phil Spencer aka Paul Wall got the internet going nuts.

 

[spookyfish]

The beauty is people don't have to boycott the game. It was built into the exclusivity deal.

I think that little detail was lost on them.

 

[Eterniti]

It makes sense monetarily because it can be Xbox's counter to Uncharted.

Pretty much what I said earlier in my post.

 

[Altima]

Thank you for answer my question about CBOAT identity.

I will have faith in him as well : )

 

[Zyae]

It's obviously MS only play at this point. They need to snatch up 3rd party exclusives (timed or not).

But you would think the devs would learn with what happened to Titanfall.

Bloodborne

 

[ArkkAngel007]

Imagine if Square Enix did this with Kingdom Hearts 3

O__O

 

[GillianSeed79]

What I posted in the other thread: Maybe this is Microsoft trying to position Tomb Raider as the Xbox's Uncharted? I mean this was pretty much their MO last gen, i.e. make exclusivity deals with third-party publishers rather than fund significant amounts of first-party studios and software. It's weird that there's no PC version though. The console makers usually don't care about PC when coming up with these exclusivity deals. I'm just surprised everyone is up in arms. Sure, Tomb Raider, was a pretty OK game, but I thought it was pretty ill-received by GAF and it's far from a "betrayalton" when it comes to third party games. It is interesting though that we are seeing exclusivity deals given how freaking expensive it is to make games these days. I thought exclusivity was going to be a thing of the past with this gen, but I guess not. I would bet it probably is timed though like how Bioshock later came out on PS3.

 

[Mahonay]

Every generation of gaming that I can think of from the NES to today has had its fair share of exclusives on one platform versus the other. What exactly makes this situation so unique and upsetting? Serious question here... I'm just not understanding why so much outrage.

It's a series that has been for a long time been associated with the PlayStation name.

 

[Four_Chamber]

The anger and salt in this thread is entertaining

 

[t26]

Was there this much of an outrage with dead rising 3?

 

[LNBL]

 

[BronsonLee]

After all of this...

'Shinobi, we comin for you, mofucka!' - Microsoft

 

[MercuryLS]

I'm glad MS moneyhatted a title in a series I don't really care about. It's gotta suck for PC/PS TR fans though :/

 

[Mononoke]

The anger and salt in this thread is entertaining

Yeah, just stop. If you aren't going to contribute to this thread, please stop dismissing discussion as being "salt".

 

[HardRojo]

Yeah I'm going to go with this:

Exclusive to XBO during Holiday 2015: Act as a counter to Uncharted to try and grab plenty of sales on XBO.
Release on PS4 and PC later: To try and get the sales you missed previously and then some since you avoided competing directly with Uncharted.

I suppose this is their reasoning.

 

[jiiikoo]

Imagine if Square Enix did this with Kingdom Hearts 3 O__O

That would break my girlfriends heart. Or she would buy an Xbox One.

 

[idlewild_]

Well, now that we are pretty sure this is a timed exclusive, I am not really that bummed out about it anymore. Sure it sucks not to have it day one on PC after supporting the series on prior entries, but it is not like we are not getting the game at all.

The 'Xbox exclusive' part is a bit more off-putting for me now, was hoping that this was not going to be a cross-gen game. Hopefully the game design is not too negatively impacted from having to fit the game on last-gen.

 

[Nintendojitsu]

The servers are going to burn if this ends up happening to Dragon Age: Inquistion, Mass Effect 4 or anything else with a 2015 release.

 

[TheRealTalker]

TR being cross gen in 2015 would be highly disappointing

 

[Hydrargyrus]

I will try for free when it will be in the PSN+, one year later

 

[RE_Player]

Will this be the first Tomb Raider game to not hit a PlayStation console?

 

[Denton]

They only need to say "It's not coming to PS4 nor PC", just that, it doesn't take much and we will let it rest.

They cannot make that comment because it will come to those platforms.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Mission accomplished. Phil Spencer aka Paul Wall got the internet going nuts.

Thats all they want really some schnadenfraude and it got people talking lol

 

[ethomaz]

That the Titanfall demo was final assets and would get no resolution bump or better textures in time for release.

He was that specific lol

Well the boost was not that big too but I can see how he was wrong.

 

[Nightengale]

Mission accomplished. Phil Spencer aka Paul Wall got the internet going nuts.

The internet went nuts for Adam Orth and Don Mattrick too.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Just took a break at work... holy crap.

 

[Storm Chamber]

The beauty is people don't have to boycott the game. It was built into the exclusivity deal.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people. Never.

 

[CoG]

That thread title change.

 

[Blastoise]

Jesus. Why so hostile?

 

[FunkyPajamas]

timedd |:<

Wait, but what does |:< mean?

| is used in Unix systems to redirect output from one command to another for further processing.

Then there's < which tells a command to get the input from a disk file instead of getting it from the user.

Finally, the : is used as a delimiter for variables, usually path variables.

Something like "The input and output converge on the path"? Or... the path is in the middle of input and output?

Gah! I can't figure it out!

 

[Neuromancer]

76 pages is" only a handful"?

76 pages of meltdown posts? I don't think so. Unless you consider any post that's unhappy with this a meltdown.

 

[ChosenPredator]

my precious phil you should just be straight up it would save so much time D-:

 

[BeforeJam]

Was there this much of an outrage with dead rising 3?

No, but that's because there's the expectation that Microsoft would've been involved anyway since DR1 was an Xbox exclusive.

Tomb Raider, however; every mainline game TMK was available on PlayStation platforms up until this point.

 

[Åesop]

Well, I'm an X1 owner and I wasn't going to buy the game because I don't agree with the business practice, and don't want to support that sort of thing.

Yukiko-chan We need more people like you

 

[Hitokiri03]

It's timed now, but Microsoft could change the deal like they did with Titanfall and turn into full exclusive.

 

[CozMick]

Timed lol, way to go Microsoft, you pissed off more people by doing this than gaining new potential xbox one owners.

 

[lexi]

You assholes. I bought the original at launch for PC. If I have to wait at all, I'll wait till it's $5 in a steam sale. Not impressed.