Microsoft has no such excuse. MS leadership has been asked multiple times why they did it, and they literally haven’t said a single fucking word that makes sense.
I feel like you’re defending the wrong thing here. Wondering why MS shudder the studio is like asking a snake why it attacks its prey. It’s a fucking snake. That’s what it does. That’s always what it does.
Embracer screwed up and let itself be absorbed into the Microsoft empire. They have their IP. They care about nothing else.
No. Microsoft.