In an interview with WccfTech, Obsidian Entertainment mentioned that its acquisition by Microsoft meant that the developer no longer requires to be concerned about pitching itself to possible investors and losing what tends to make it special.
Senior designer Brian Hines shed a tiny light on how the deal amongst Obsidian and Microsoft went down. Its hotly anticipated and darkly humorous The Outer Worlds was not impacted by the buyout due to Obsidian’s publishing partnership with Private Division. ‘On the studio level, for me personally, one particular of the good issues is that now that we’re component of Microsoft, we’re focusing additional on what the subsequent games are going to be, rather than, how do we pitch the subsequent games?’ Hines explained.
Of course, the developer does not get to run wild and totally free with its intellectual properties and Microsoft is the head honcho. ‘There is definitely a greenlight approach. We never often have carte blanche to do what ever we want,’ Hines elaborated. ‘It certainly is a lot additional focused on like, “Okay, let’s make the games cool. Let’s make the games we want to make.”’
Microsoft’s selection to obtain Obsidian was motivated by the studio’s results stories, and the business communicated that it desires the developer to preserve on maintaining on. ‘That’s one particular of the issues that when we have been acquired that Microsoft’s mentioned to us is like, “We’re obtaining you simply because we want you to preserve creating games the way you have been carrying out, not to alter you,”’ mentioned Hines. ‘And that is been reassuring a lot of people today on the group, we’re not all of a sudden going to be asked to be a various studio than we have been.’
Obsidian is now capable to make games of ‘better quality’ and ‘on a grander scale’ that hopefully its fans will love just as a lot as its classic titles. The Outer Worlds appears like it fits that bill, and Wealthy digged its Fallout-in-space vibes.
The Outer Worlds will arrive for Xbox A single, PlayStation four, and Computer on October 25.