[QUOTE="FinalxxSin, post: 6527046]The game being a first party game isn't the topic Lethal. It's about who developed said title. This is a pretty simple concept, but I'll give an example to clarify my point that I have already made:
Let's say Christopher is the head of a company and you(Lethal) and Brandon both work for. By contract, anything either of you create can not be used outside the company without Christopher's permission. Lethal for example focuses on action genre IPs while Brandon focuses fighting game IPs. Christopher publishes the products, and may even help fund them, but at the end of the day Christopher is playing no active role in the development process itself other than possibly setting a few guidelines to follow (e.g. time limit). The development work is coming down to what Lethal and Brandon do themselves. When the products are complete, Brandon and/or Lethal are going to be credited as the developer of said product. Christopher ofc will be credited with publishing the product. Only if Christopher were to help develop an IP (e.g. create the story, battle system, lore, etc. etc.) would Christopher be accredited as a developer as well.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that is lost on anyone. Using that logic, you can't credit a singular studio (such as Guerilla Games) for creating a game either - you need to look up the name of every single person who had a part in creating it and write down all their names in a gaming forum discussing their game because, well, how would anyone know.