The head of the developer thinks that they should acquire “people with whom you can sit and have a beer.”
Microsoft’s purchase of Obsidian was one of the news most powerful of 2018, as it was confirmed that deliveries such as Pillars of Eternity or Fallout: New Vegas passed to the Xbox ecosystem. However, this was close to not occurring, since the developer studio had a purchase offer that, if accepted, could have changed Microsoft’s plans.
The publisher wanted to buy Obsidian to move developers to other gamesSomething that has been like a curious anecdote, as Obsidian boss Feargus Urquhart explains in an interview granted to GamesIndustry. In this sense, a large publisher approached the developer with a purchase offer, but Urquhart turned down the opportunity because the publisher was really “having a lot of difficulties to buy. hire the right people“.
A purchase offer has to be a cultural fitFeargus Urqhart, Chief of ObsidianTherefore, and taking into account that the main intention of the editor was move Obsidian developers to other games, Urquhart rejected it. According to his perspective, the head of the study considers that the purchase offer “has to be a cultural fit”, so they have to be “people with whom can you sit down and have a beer, and if they aren’t, maybe you have to reconsider. “
Although we do not know the publisher that tried to acquire Obsidian back in 2018, at least now we have a happy ending between the developer and Microsoft, since this union has yielded the most positive results. A Grounded with great updates, a The Outer Worlds 2 presented at the last E3 and an Avowed that, although it was not seen at the event, will give us news very soon, not counting everything that could come in the future.
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