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Obsidian CEO responds to worries Xbox could shut them down, too: 'I'm not worried about tomorrow' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Or he's just lying and he does worry. It's never a good business model to show fear and uncertainty about the future.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Even if he was concerned he wouldn't want to express that publicly, because his teams would all start jumping ship. Then he'd have an actual delivery problem on his hands and the chance of closure would be much higher.

That said, any studio owned by Microsoft should be worried. They demonstrated that even producing popular, highly-acclaimed games isn't enough for them, so there doesn't seem to be a way to keep them happy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plus to admit that would be to express doubt in the parent corp, and that sounds like a good way to get on their bad side and have them start having doubts about you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Accurate but given the current turmoil and backlash from the most recent closures, I think it's justified to place doubt in Microsoft right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh absolutely, but if you're part of MS then going around saying you're worried about MS is a good way to create a self fulfilling prophecy where you definitely need to worry about it, where before you might have actually been fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

True though I like to think he's prepared, just because I like Obsidian and hope they can pull off a BI -> Ob again... even if it means my dreams of an Obsidian-made Fallout go out the window.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's also not a good idea to talk poorly about the company that owns you. Nothing he says in public has any value really.