They say Microsoft has helped increase their marketing reach for their game. The very fact we are discussing it now, and it's been getting discussed since the June showcase on all kinds of podcasts/forums/social media sites is proof that even that part is true.
They say they have more potential people who will try the game due to Game Pass. We have eyes and know that too is obviously true. I don't see what's there to question.
I do. You are simply stating things that occured like MS marketing and being on gamepass, but how its truly impacted the game itself they may not be 100% clear or honest about.
As in, if it didn't do much or they had bad things happen from MS or anything like that, they might feel MS pulling funding, marketing as a result of those comments, thus will not repeat negative things. As in, you are not going to tell your boss the real work conditions to their face when those issues are literally a result of the boss themselves, you might be likely to say positive things when put on the spot.
Its not saying the job is false, its not saying the money received from it is fake, its saying the person may not be 100% honest about the issues considering that relationship......
The short version of what you're saying is don't trust any game developer doing business with Microsoft. And you say considering the source? The source is an independent game developer not owned by Microsoft.
Never said anything remotely like that, don't trust any developer getting funding from a publisher, marketing from a publisher and might want to be fucking owned by said publisher in the future, thus will make flattering comments.
So they have skin in the game bud, MS is literally doing something for them, so I don't expect them to throw MS under the bus and be like "MS is really fucking us over" lol Thats like trying to say a vendor will tell the truth about the retailer, they simply won't. They have a relationship that by default will have a bias, thus its kinda pointless, you need a 3rd party that has ZERO agenda to earn anything from MS or that developer etc to tell you about issues going on, the workers might not, the developer might not, MS might not etc. Its why when ever you have a developer leave, they often reveal issues within a company, well....they fucking are safe to do so now lol
Maybe we should instead trust developers who owned by and only exclusively build games for Playstation or Nintendo on what it's like to partner with Microsoft and Xbox. Seems you got a Microsoft/Xbox problem.
Seems like you assume waaaay too fucking much man. The point being made is regarding any business relationship. No where in my comment do i state this is ONLY about MS or MS in general can't be trusted or anything weird like that, stop fucking adding in this crap to bicker about off topic shit man.
Someone is marketing a game for you, has you on gamepass, funding shit...that sounds like a situation where they are very likely to NOT express the negative things going on, they have a bias not to, but I expect that from ANY developer or ANY business that has a partnership like this, its not the source to seek a real objective view from, as in they literally have reasons NOT to express those views completely.
I don't expect them to and I wouldn't either. Nothing to do with MS vs Nintendo vs Sony (I don't even know where you got that shit from lol)