Totally agreed.

Although I do remember reading on the boards that when Rick was trying to get his license renewed and such their lawyers were talking money "up here" because that's the numbers they're used to working with. It was...a bit high.

BattleTech is serious small ball compared to what they work with.
Some big wig (Might have been Jordan Weisman) called them up and the number came down to BattleTech ballpark standards.

What I get from that is this. Microsoft people aren't big jerks. They're people just like us. But they deal in BIG ball parks and often just don't understand small ball and so people THINK they're jerks when its really just a matter of them having no concept of the game we play.
Literally.

In the end, Microsoft has gone a long way to do lots of stuff for BattleTech. Well...for them...they want to make money.

But to them, BattleTech was an investment and they really wanted it be Halo big because that would have been awesome for them. Mech Assault made it. It's too bad that they didn't get more good sequels out...
