I’m fine with Indiana Jones since it’s something Todd Howard wanted to do, the Pirates of the Carribean SOT crossover was tolerable and I honestly wouldn’t object to High Moon making another Cybertron game but that’s where I would draw the line
Between some nonsense of The Coalition doing a Mandalorian game…and reading some of the mind boggling bad ideas in the chat during Xbox Two podcast over the last 2 weeks. Some suggesting that The Coalition to a Punisher game…that would be absolutely horrifying
Why do a Star Wars licensed game when Xbox has 2 major sci fi IP’s now with Halo and Starcraft? Why do a Marvel game when the Overwatch IP is ripe for new games?
With everyone else dipping in and drinking the Marvel/DC/Star Wars Koolaid I am hoping that Xbox invest heavily in their own IP’s rather than take a short term gain approach with more licensed crap.
Eww no…too many valuable IP’s…money spent on a licensed deal is money taken away from something else
Disney doesn’t go around doing licensing deals because they already have a plethora of IP’s, characters and franchises. MS is in a similar position in video games now with everything they own.
If (scenario) it came down to The Coalition doing a Mandalorian game or doing Starcraft Ghost…it would be an absolute travesty for them to do the former over the latter
Nintendo doesn’t have to do licensed games because their IP’s have brand power…MS needs to treat their IP’s the same way.
I think people blow “creative freedom” out of proportion…like if The Coalition said “we want to make a Peppa Pig game” Phil and Matt Booty are going to look at them like they’ve lost their minds
As long as MS is able to secure permanent publishing rights for at least the titles it produces, I’d agree.
If the license holder doesn’t allow that, I’m not sure if Microsoft is willing to make something that may be super expensive that’ll just potentially be delisted in a few years… then again, that happens with Forza.
Generally I agree but licensed ip like spiderman and star wars will bring attention to their brand especially if it really well received and If Microsoft can keep the publishing rights for it stay in gamepass permanently another win on top of it
There’s literally nothing mutually exclusive about any of this. Raven, Treyarch, High Moon made some of the best licensed games ever that stand the test of time as great games even ignoring the licenses attached to them, and if they wanted to do that again, no reason to shut it down because of some weird aversion to licenses that honestly you guys are projecting onto MS rather that what’s actually worthy of pursuing for MS.
Xbox now has more IP’s than studios to make them. Focus on the IP’s you have. People want fallout. Let one of your studios make it. Same with Banjo, hexen etc
