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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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Kinda. This is the exact opposite of that, in that they control the IP and went out to find an external dev with lots of subject matter expertise to make it.
On paper I'd say that's better than them buying Relic off of Sega, but then Sega fired a bunch of people at Relic this year, like everybody else, so what would have been better is very much up for debate.
Microsoft shut down the entire Ensemble studio, the original creator of AoE. Internal game development at Microsoft is bad.