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Crash Bandicoot 4, Spyro Reignited Trilogy Dev Toys For Bob Is Splitting From Activision (www.gameinformer.com)

submitted 8 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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This is GREAT news. This means they can focus on making great original games and not be dragged into working on call of duty. Please just give me a new Spyro.

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[-] echo64@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

This is fairly confusing. Toys for Bob were owned wholey by Activision, ergo they were then owned by Microsoft. Now they are ... free? And exploring a relationship with Microsoft?

It's hard to understand how this happened unless Microsoft wanted to close the studio and offered them independence instead. But then why work on a new thing?

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago

It's hard to understand how this happened unless Microsoft wanted to close the studio and offered them independence instead.

Could be. Microsoft closing a studio wholesale after acquiring Activision would invite anti-trust action from various governments.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I'm fairly sure Microsoft just saw that the studio had potential and didn't want them to be tied to ActiBlizz.

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

So move them anywhere else in the company, they owned them outright.

[-] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They let Bungie go as well. Maybe it was just a downsizing decision. Their roles were redundant or they didn't want to invest in whatever they were proposing. Idk.