Bollocks. Microsoft has shut down whole game studios (the team behind HiFi Rush for example) for doing WELL. Any studio is taking risks publishing through Microsoft.
So I wouldn’t be too optimistic as a studio that is going against the grain. Unless it is consistently driving GamePass numbers — and even if it is — a team is likely to be disbanded. We don’t really understand the how or the why behind the decisions.
Bollocks. Microsoft has shut down whole game studios (the team behind HiFi Rush for example) for doing WELL. Any studio is taking risks publishing through Microsoft.
So I wouldn’t be too optimistic as a studio that is going against the grain. Unless it is consistently driving GamePass numbers — and even if it is — a team is likely to be disbanded. We don’t really understand the how or the why behind the decisions.