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The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold (www.thegamer.com)

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[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The IP reason is such a stupid argument in my opinion, because most of the time the company either ends up doing fuck all with it, or teases with a possible return only to say "lol jk nevermind".

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

From the article:

By shutting down a studio instead of selling it off or even letting it buy itself out, Microsoft ensures that no studio it has ever owned can become viable competition.

They benefit by killing off art and culture that could replace or take attention away from the art and culture they already control and profit from. They don't need to profit from it directly.