@charizard1605: I dig the concept of this thread. I just think in this case the deals and the announcements surrounding them provide plenty of reasons for different community reactions. First let's look at the announcements.
Rise of the Tomb Raider (from here on referred to as TR2) was originally announced months before "exclusivity" was announced. Now it could have been that MS moronically decided to play coy with a long established deal, but it also may have been that MS - finding themselves looking for a counter to the also announced Uncharted 4 - decided to pay to delay PS gamers ability to play the game. By presenting an assumed multiplat, allowing that assumption to persist for months, and THEN announcing otherwise, they made it easy for the media and community to view the deal as something being taken away from gamers. With FFVII, no prior announcements had been made (though we had some epic trolls) so this snafu was avoided entirely.
They also did their best to create a misleading announcement, and continue stubbornly to hide the facts of the deal to this day. When CD made their... Artfully worded announcement that TR2 was "Coming holiday 2015, Exclusively to XBox" (along with identically phrased press releases from CD and MS, to demonstrate that the wording was deliberately chosen) it was an attempt to convey a reality that didn't exist. Only after pinning Spencer down was the press able to discern the general framework, and then only by reading between the lines of some very defensive Spencer replies to questions. Even now, with all of the blowback MS is sticking to their guns of insisting all parties make no mention of other versions of the game. Compare this to the FFVII announcement, where "Play it first on Playstation 4" was an immediate and clear indication that other versions were forthcoming, and A Sony rep recently also told lol taku that "gamers will know how long the PS4’s timed-exclusivity lasts relatively soon. “We’ll be disclosing that to everyone before the game comes out, so everyone will know.”" If I were to guess, I'd say the biggest single source of criticism of MS comes here. They helped design an intentionally misleading announcement and have continued to be obstinate about allowing other details to be discussed. Why? the only people fooled at this point are a few of their own fanboys. Any possible PR coup from this evaporated once Spencer was forced to admit he had a timed deal with no control of the game once it expired. Now they just look petty.
Finally, the likely terms of each deal are quite distinct. TR2 is a multiplat MS had no prior relation to before paying to hold back other editions for the holiday shopping season. FFVII was translated into English (poor effort) and published in NA for PSOne by Sony. Despite several popular rereleases in subsequent console generations and on PC, the title has never appeared on a Nintendo or MS console, leading many to deduce that Sony's publishing rights limit the console availability of the game. It seems plausible to me that Sony surrendered any claim on the remake for an exclusive console window (sounds like SE can release at anytime on PC, again from loltaku interview). Which hey, you can call BS there too, but I don't think anyone would expect a shareholder owned company to give away something as valuable as even limited FFVII rights for free, and without the ability of the remake to go full multiplat, SE wouldn't likely bother anyhow.
In short, I think Sony's previous connections to FFVII, combined with their willingness to speak more clearly about the game's future outside of their platform makes it easy to see why the community at large views that situation more favorably to one where MS paid for a multiplat to delay its release on other platforms, crafted an announcement designed to convince gamers and the media that they had an actual (well... Brand?) exclusive, and has obstinately refused to allow information about other platforms to come out to this day.
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