It's tampering with a competitors supply and distribution for money, directly, with no benefit to one's own product other than having hampered the competition's success. Thus discussion of the practice - not paying for exclusivity, not paying for a game's marketing, not even paying to block a competing platform, but paying to block how a competitor is or is not allowed to distribute a product they distribute is.questionable. We just don't know if the rumor of it occurring for this game specifically is accurate or not. Sony not defending against the claim in court tells us this.
So it's pretty much a lock that the "Sony buys blocking rights" thing is 100% fact. Now, they could be held in contempt for false claims if they don't have documentation to back it up, and we can be pretty safe to assume Microsoft and Sony both have the best lawyers money can buy, and both have demonstrated they do for 30-some years, so I'm pretty sure if it weren't true, Microsoft wouldn't be making the claim in court, or if they did Sony would be ripping it down, charging libel and defamation, demanding reparations, and using it against them with their own documentation. Thu 18th Aug It's not just the document, it's Microsoft openly using it in their defense in a court of law.If Sony has been doing deals to keep stuff off of Game Pass, more power to them. The number one objective is to get you to spend money with a particular company. I'm not sure why people think these massive corporations are above such things just because they put customer-facing friendly individuals like Phil Spencer in front of us, telling us what we want to hear. If it's not Final Fantasy exclusivity, it's Tomb Raider exclusivity, or keeping games off Game Pass, or throwing money around for some indie Xbox exclusive. Newsflash: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo - hell, even Sega when it was still a player in the console space - have been making deals (both open and backhanded) and power plays for decades, just to f**k with their competitors.
Now that the Sony pays to keep things off of Game Pass "news" is "out in the open', this is going to be it for the next few months, isn't it? Sony did this, Microsoft did that.
Still, given Microsoft's recent accusations about Sony's Game Pass dealings, it could well be true. Now, Whitta says he was told that nugget of info from another source, and we have no extra details on hand to back the claim up, so it's best to take it with a spoonful of salt. Cult Of The Lamb is not on Xbox Game Pass because Playstation paid for "Blocking Rights" 👀 /hsF9o3GHY6- 🇩🇴 Xbox_Serious_X|S 🇺🇸 August 18, 2022
Basically, Whitta claims that the PlayStation owner paid the developer to keep the title off Xbox Game Pass. Kinda Funny's Gary Whitta recently spoke about indie title Cult of the Lamb, specifically around it not being included in the Game Pass library. One thing that cropped up was the notion that Sony could pay for content to not arrive on Xbox Game Pass, and well, a new comment is only adding fuel to that fire. Original story: There's been a lot going around lately about how both Microsoft and Sony go about their business, in large part due to the ongoing Activision Blizzard deal. Update: Devolver Digital, which publishes Cult of the Lamb, has since reached out to TheGamer about this story to state that the rumour is "absolutely untrue" and Sony didn't pay to keep the game off Xbox Game Pass.
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