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FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated

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FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated | VGC

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And now Sony owns them. As much as I like From, I'm getting ready to cope with them enshittifying.
- Sony doesn't own them, they're just a big investor in them.
  
  14% ownership is ownership. Not just "big investor". It's not big enough ownership to pull unilateral changes, but when someone owns 14% of your company they do sit at the big boy table.
- Elden Ring already happened, it’s enshittifying already.
  Their next game is a copy pasted cash grab rip off of Elden Ring.
  The shit is here.
  
  Hey I was a skeptic too but got to play it for an hour during the network test and am actually cautiously optimistic. I could still be wrong but it seemed like they put a lot of thought into the new systems.
Sony sucks, using your money to try and buy exclusives is toxic garbage behavior, they deserve any criticism and troubles they come across.
- Sony sucks, using your money to try and buy exclusives is toxic garbage behavior, they deserve any criticism and troubles they come across.
  I understand that exclusivity on games can be shit but if, I remember well lots of PlayStation games are already on PC (spider man, last of us and ghost of Tsushima) and steller blade will be soon too.
  Not only that, Xbox and Nintendo have exclusives too. Not to forget about Epic Games and their exclusive deals.
  
  ... Nintendo literally personally develops their exclusives, let's not pretend that's an apples to apples comparison.
  Xbox is absolutely terrible at buying exclusives though, yes. Worse than Sony, arguably.
  
  Does Xbox still have exclusives though? I thought they were kind of open platforming everything?
  
  It's so weird to me how many people seem to just hate Sony for doing milder versions of what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing for much longer.
  Sony didn't buy Zenimax or Activision-Blizzard. Or heck, you could point to the gigantic graveyard of studios that EA and Microsoft have purchased and shut down over the years.
- Sony doesn’t really do that, not in the way that we’ve seen Microsoft do it at least. And most PlayStation exclusives are on PC now or are planned for PC.

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