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i wouldnt say that just because microsoft is the executive producer(read bank account) behind a game means they control key elements like that. i was going to make an analogy towards pizza about this but it really didnt make much sense :/
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NCSoft,which is the Producer for Lineage/2 City of Heroes,Guild wars ETC has specific rules to what particular game they will produce and I can't see why Microsoft would be any different.
NCsoft Requires that the Game Developers make available one Content update per Quarter in a year at least.This is a good thing and a bad thing, don't know what they dictate as a content patch either in terms of Size or what additions it makes to the game.
I assume in the case of City of Heroes that it is size of the content patch,which seems to be why for the first year The design team was so slow with bug fixes and whatever else.They wanted to dump them into the content patches rather than have them be seperate and lose out on the extra changes they could pass off as new content.This seems to have changed for that particular design team recently,perhaps because of the outcry from all the WoW players from blizzard doing something similar I don't know...
But if Microsoft is handing out the money,and Ncsoft is already doing it,then I don't see why they can't insist on regular updates or whatever else players feel they need to continue subscriptions.