Jo . But ms has no honor .) There would be a lawsuit against them, if they would try to break the mp deal.

@battle

You're highly overreacting.
They chose not to buy out the contracts.

@BattleCat
I am not sure MS would be too concerned about breaking contracts when they acquire a studio. They just look at the $100 billion they have of cash on hand and there is not a single gaming lawsuit that could even count as a dent in that cash.

I think their stance to honor contracts is three-fold. 1) They can make money from all these games shipping on other platforms and that helps pay for the buy outs. 2) The studios themselves pour a lot of sweat into making games on all the platforms already and telling them to just drop a platform would be demoralizing to the teams at a time where they are really concerned because of the buy outs. 3) Whoever the contract is with it makes sense to honor it as MS is a Windows and XB platform holder and inevitably whatever publisher or backer for the game could be looking at shipping other games on the platforms. Disenfranchising them could cost them games in the future. But, honoring the contracts makes them the "good partner" that they would want to work with.

Look at Wasteland 3 as an example. with Deep Silver publishing it. I doubt Deep Silver would've waited and poured the money MS poured into inXile to up the production quality of the game. Instead Deep Silver got a good pay out probably with GamePass Day One and was able to ship the game on other platforms for sale, which would probably be gravy. Plus, they got to say they published a good quality game. You can think that if Deep Silver needs another platform partner they will be considering MS seriously because of this.

Same adding to library but not playing.

Different I'll be playing them but won't be adding them to my library