Freelancer was incomplete upon release and had a few features which were added in later by modders. Chris Roberts blamed Microsoft for it, and of course Gamers rallied against the big evil publisher.
What came out later in dribs and drabs was the narrative that Roberts was doing to Freelancer what he's now doing to Star Citizen (endless feature bloat, ridiculous perfectionism, etc) and Microsoft finally had enough and told him to get the game ready for release, or else.
Idk what exactly happened, but the more I look at Star Citizen the more I think the only reason Freelancer even made it to stores was because of Microsoft holding a gun to Roberts' head.
Each new thing I hear about Star Citizen, I think "yeah Microsoft was right about Freelancer" a bit more.
What does this mean? I'm not really up to speed on this controversy, but I have fond memories of Freelancer.
Freelancer was incomplete upon release and had a few features which were added in later by modders. Chris Roberts blamed Microsoft for it, and of course Gamers rallied against the big evil publisher.
What came out later in dribs and drabs was the narrative that Roberts was doing to Freelancer what he's now doing to Star Citizen (endless feature bloat, ridiculous perfectionism, etc) and Microsoft finally had enough and told him to get the game ready for release, or else.
Idk what exactly happened, but the more I look at Star Citizen the more I think the only reason Freelancer even made it to stores was because of Microsoft holding a gun to Roberts' head.