It's a very bad look if you sell (or lease) your IP and then someone else makes a hit game with it, but not you. Look at what it took to get another Obsidian Fallout game - Microsoft owning both Obsidian and Bethesda AND basically telling them "you're working on Fallout now". When Obsidian have been on record for years saying that they would want to return to that universe.
I mean, another Obsidian Fallout game isn't really something I have a particular desire for at this point. Obsidians last 3 games (Outer Worlds 1 and 2, Avowed) were... not great. Like, nothing specifically wrong with any of them, just kind of felt soulless and bland. Bringing that kind of energy to a new Fallout game would take away pretty much all of the best parts of that franchise.
I'm probably in the minority - but I liked Alpha Protocol for what it was, and always thought Bioware could have made a potentially great franchise of it
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u/Bdavis72 8h ago
Nothing these companies love doing more than sitting on IPs and letting it die, it’s over for Mass Effect