What’s going on with Epic Games and Outer Worlds?

Everyone is speculating about that. No one actually knows for sure. A few hours before the announcement, there is evidence that says someone was updating the Steam achievements for The Outer Worlds. People take that to mean that Obsidian did not know. However, all you can really take from that was there was a software engineer that maybe did not know about it. I can't speak for Obsidian's corporate structure, but I would guess that updating Steam achievements is not exactly a programmer's wet dream. So I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a low level guy who did not know about the exclusivity--those sorts of employees are not necessarily privy to that information.

I feel like the most you can take from that is not everyone at Obsidian knew about it. That is hardly news. One time a company I worked for was acquired by another company. Anyone not in management found out the day they showed up and gave his offers, background screenings, and drug tests.

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