Mass Effect 2 to be exclusive for 'A short period of time'

[wezeles]

First off I didn't assume anything. I just said that it's possibal and that they do not own it.

Rights to the game is not even close ot the same thing as ownership of the game.

Like I said they do not have CREATIVE Rights "ownership". That means they didn't make the game nor could they make another version of the game on there own without prior approval from the owner of the game aka the original developer.
Its not Assumtion thats how it works. Otherwise it would be listed as a Microsoft Developed and published game if they had the acctual Creative Rights to it, thats common sense.

Like I also said depending on how the contract is written up for the current publishing rights is if they could or could not release the game on multi platform.
But it's safe to say No developer in their right mind would sign a contract saying " I will only make this game for Fill in the Blank." If they did, and then Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo left the gaming industry all together. Then later on they wanted to make these games for whatever console poped out in the future then they would have to get permission from Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo and probably pay them for no reason just to make a game they technically own themself.

Depending on how much they paid for the "temporary rights" and how the contact is written up . blah blah ownership for blah blah amount of time. It could Very well get moved to another console. Specially when these games are such big hits.

It's the same way with song artist signing a contract they get suckered into a 2 or 3 CD deal but if they get screwed or they could make more money somewhere else they will.
But if they are treated fair and are striving they probably will stay with the same company.

Publishers almost NEVER own the rights to a game unless they also own the Developing company aswell! Go look at long franchised 2nd party and 3rd party games, alot have switched hands among the publishers more than a couple times.The publisher does nothing more than pay to produce a game.
Now the Temporary Rights to any game can be sold at any time be it to a Publishing company or Developing company. But unless it is straight up owned by Sony/MS/Nintendo then it would not be under 100% of their controll.

It's the Buisness end of it, no manager/lawyer would ever let them sign a contract for indeffinate ownership of rights.
And no publishing company would pay the crazy amount it would probably take to get exclusive rights till the end of time.

Will it happen? Who knows speculation of it going one way or the other means nothing without an announcement.But just assuming one way or the other is stupid there is a possability of both outcomes.
The only people who know for sure are the Publishers/Developers/Console companys.
It's not news they would break to the public untill all the fine details are written down in a contract.

When we “assume” we make an “ass” out of “u” and “me”.

 

[SensesFail]

I see your point. But having played Mass Effect, that game is HEAVILY story-driven. If you play Mass Effect 2 without having played ME1 before, I'm certain that you wouldn't understand most of the things going on.

i have read a few articles and they have dealt with this in a very smart way.

aparently if you have played ME1 it will use your save file fromt hat game to start out the second but they said if you havent played me, then you could still pick up mass effect 2 and play it because it will have a different point to start from.

thats from game informer mag.

and i guess gears of war 3 on PS3 isnt that bad of a decision.. i wont be buying it cause i have a 360 and tried gears of war and thoght it was bad.

 

[T3kNi9e]

First off I didn't assume anything. I just said that it's possibal and that they do not own it.

Rights to the game is not even close ot the same thing as ownership of the game.

Like I said they do not have CREATIVE Rights "ownership". That means they didn't make the game nor could they make another version of the game on there own without prior approval from the owner of the game aka the original developer.
Its not Assumtion thats how it works. Otherwise it would be listed as a Microsoft Developed and published game if they had the acctual Creative Rights to it, thats common sense.

Like I also said depending on how the contract is written up for the current publishing rights is if they could or could not release the game on multi platform.
But it's safe to say No developer in their right mind would sign a contract saying " I will only make this game for Fill in the Blank." If they did, and then Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo left the gaming industry all together. Then later on they wanted to make these games for whatever console poped out in the future then they would have to get permission from Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo and probably pay them for no reason just to make a game they technically own themself.

Depending on how much they paid for the "temporary rights" and how the contact is written up . blah blah ownership for blah blah amount of time. It could Very well get moved to another console. Specially when these games are such big hits.

It's the same way with song artist signing a contract they get suckered into a 2 or 3 CD deal but if they get screwed or they could make more money somewhere else they will.
But if they are treated fair and are striving they probably will stay with the same company.

Publishers almost NEVER own the rights to a game unless they also own the Developing company aswell! Go look at long franchised 2nd party and 3rd party games, alot have switched hands among the publishers more than a couple times.The publisher does nothing more than pay to produce a game.
Now the Temporary Rights to any game can be sold at any time be it to a Publishing company or Developing company. But unless it is straight up owned by Sony/MS/Nintendo then it would not be under 100% of their controll.

It's the Buisness end of it, no manager/lawyer would ever let them sign a contract for indeffinate ownership of rights.
And no publishing company would pay the crazy amount it would probably take to get exclusive rights till the end of time.

Will it happen? Who knows speculation of it going one way or the other means nothing without an announcement.But just assuming one way or the other is stupid there is a possability of both outcomes.
The only people who know for sure are the Publishers/Developers/Console companys.
It's not news they would break to the public untill all the fine details are written down in a contract.

Thats an assumption... If you are saying something that you are not 100% sure about, then you are ASSuming something...

Also who ever said I was criticizing you for assuming something?

Anyway after that I stop reading because im tired of always reading your long posts.

 

[wezeles]

Did you get dropped as a baby?

Assumtion: something that is believed to be true without proof.

Now I didn't say one way or the other which way it would go. I said how the contract agreements work and who has ownership of the game. The possability it could change isn't assumtion, its fact. Go read any contract that deals with gaming or any kind of Entertainment at all and you will see that.

If your view holds true why is FF not still on Nintendo? 1-6 where on Nintendo then it became a Playstation game and all the old Nintendo versions got ported over to everything else after so many years. And now there is rumor that after the last set of games FF is leaving Playstation... WTF oh wait I mean get a clue! Thats how the industry works they follow the money they are not stuck on any console forever. It was published by Sony,Nintendo,Square,EA even jumped into it none of them have real rights to it except the people who made it "Square-Enix"

Everyone needs to get over their fanboy view of gaming and realise it's a buisness like anything else. Just because its on your favorite console, doesn't mean its staying there. Unless of course the Console company are also the ones who made the game. Even then it isn't a guarantee that it is going to stay that way, look at SEGA and Sonic.

[media]http://thephotizo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/reality-check.jpg[/media]
Be careful there is a bump after that too :lol: :lol:

 

[T3kNi9e]

Wtf are you talking about? If my views hold true...? Final Fantasy is published by Square and when its ported it gets published by another company.

In the end FF is owned by Square-Enix so they can choose where to develop it on. When games are ported sometimes they let someone else do the work which ends up being published like another company. For example Oblivion was published by Bethesda on 2K along with the 360, then Ubisoft published on PS3.

I never said that publishing a game automatically makes you the owner, but it tends to be that way.

Btw, before you try to make a "comeback" to insult me, make sure you actually spell ASSUMPTION right.

 

[Dorkfish]

Did you get dropped as a baby?

Assumtion: something that is believed to be true without proof.

Now I didn't say one way or the other which way it would go. I said how the contract agreements work and who has ownership of the game. The possability it could change isn't assumtion, its fact. Go read any contract that deals with gaming or any kind of Entertainment at all and you will see that.

If your view holds true why is FF not still on Nintendo? 1-6 where on Nintendo then it became a Playstation game and all the old Nintendo versions got ported over to everything else after so many years. And now there is rumor that after the last set of games FF is leaving Playstation... WTF oh wait I mean get a clue! Thats how the industry works they follow the money they are not stuck on any console forever. It was published by Sony,Nintendo,Square,EA even jumped into it none of them have real rights to it except the people who made it "Square-Enix"

Everyone needs to get over their fanboy view of gaming and realise it's a buisness like anything else. Just because its on your favorite console, doesn't mean its staying there. Unless of course the Console company are also the ones who made the game. Even then it isn't a guarantee that it is going to stay that way, look at SEGA and Sonic.

http://thephotizo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/reality-check.jpg
Be careful there is a bump after that too :lol: :lol:

Dood, you write the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGEST posts in the history of web forums. SHRTN THM UP PLZ

 

[VidyaVince]

Dood, you write the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGEST posts in the history of web forums. SHRTN THM UP PLZ

For real, I get the biggest case of tl;dr when I read his posts.

 

[T3kNi9e]

Thats not even close to his longest

 

[wezeles]

Wtf are you talking about? If my views hold true...? Final Fantasy is published by Square and when its ported it gets published by another company.

In the end FF is owned by Square-Enix so they can choose where to develop it on. When games are ported sometimes they let someone else do the work which ends up being published like another company. For example Oblivion was published by Bethesda on 2K along with the 360, then Ubisoft published on PS3.

I never said that publishing a game automatically makes you the owner, but it tends to be that way.

Btw, before you try to make a "comeback" to insult me, make sure you actually spell ASSUMPTION right.

My point is it almost NEVER tends to be that way.

Go look who published the first Final Fantasy again. In NA it was Nintendo not Square. Square barely had enough money to put it out in Japan at the time. Thats where the name comes from Final Fantasy was supose to be their last game. But Nintendo came in and gave them the financial backing to continue, a.k.a. a publisher. Sure Nintendo had exclusivity for consoles for 10 years but once more money presented itself Square split.

This is how it works all of the time, unless it comes directly from the publishers own development company than they simply "lease" the game and its contents. It's the same way for books,movies,cd's the publisher/producer simply has the rights to what they have paid for, not ownership in any way.
I don't know how to dumb it down to you anymore, apparently all you can comprehend is spelling beyond that you use your own opinion instead of any type of facts to back anything up.

 

[T3kNi9e]

Final Fantasy - Published by Square in Japan - Released December 1987
- Published by Nintendo in NA - Released July 1990

The original game was published by Square and Developed by Square.

That means FF1 was passed on to Nintendo so that it could be released in the US. This is done alot, usually the original game is released by its title holder then passed on to either be ported or released in another country. This doesn't always happen, but it happens alot. Just like how The Orange Box was published by Valve on PC and 360 then past on to EA London to port it for the PS3. Why? Valve said themselves that PS3 is a waste of time. So instead of doing it themselves they gave it to EA to port. This does not mean EA owns the rights, but they make money off of it because they ported/published it.

This situation happens alot. It's not always that way and there are always exceptions, but this is how it tends to be. Thats why most games published by Nintendo/MS/Sony are owned by them.

 

[Nintendo93]

It could be going to PC, just like Mass Effect 1 is.


Would seem stupid to have Mass Effect 2 come to PS3 when the PS3 doesn't even have the first one.

Well Saints Row 2 is coming to PS3 when PS3 doesn't have the original.

 

[T3kNi9e]

Saints Row was not an exclusive title. The only reason why Saints Row was not on PS3 is because PS3 did not exist at that time.

 

[Gikoku Harakami]

Reread the article, and there wasn't a single mention of the PS3 at all... It was just assumptions made from the press, because they misread/mistook what Bioware said.

Mass Effect 2 isn't coming to the PS3, it was just a misread rumor. Bioware only meant that Mass Effect would only be a timed exclusive to the 360 and would be ported to the PC... not the PS3. Bioware is only concerned about the 360 & PC, and already said many times that they wish to keep it that way, even in a personal video Q&A from the creators towards their community boards (after being bought by EA).

 

[T3kNi9e]

Reread the article, and there wasn't a single mention of the PS3 at all... It was just assumptions made from the press, because they misread/mistook what Bioware said.

Mass Effect 2 isn't coming to the PS3, it was just a misread rumor. Bioware only meant that Mass Effect would only be a timed exclusive to the 360 and would be ported to the PC... not the PS3. Bioware is only concerned about the 360 & PC, and already said many times that they wish to keep it that way, even in a personal video Q&A from the creators towards their community boards (after being bought by EA).

Yeah thats already been said. It's an analyst who tries to "predict" what will happen.

 

[Gikoku Harakami]

Yeah thats already been said. It's an analyst who tries to "predict" what will happen.

Oh, okay then. Damn analysts. :lol: