Indiana Jones and the Great Circle er naturligvis baseret på den legendariske IP, og den ejer Microsoft ikke, men lejer den af Disney og Lucasfilm. For mange år siden var det langt mere populært at låne IP'er til spil, men ikke nær lige så prominent længere, og Phil Spencer kan faktisk decideret ikke rigtig lide at poste penge i den slags projekter.
I et interview med Stephe Totilo ved Game File fortæller Spencer, at Indiana Jones er en undtagelse, og at Xbox generelt vil investere i deres egne IP'er:
"We've seen it in racing games that have to get delisted, because you lose certain licenses. So I'm always very careful, if we're going to take on a license, that we're doing it for creative reasons, [that] the team has a goal around what they want to do. I think what you see in Indiana Jones is a team that really loves Indiana Jones and that world. The story is, to me, one of the strongest parts of that game—the way you feel like you're Indiana Jones from a first person perspective. So it's clear that's something they wanted to do. But, for us, given the [intellectual property] that we have that we own. I'm a big fan of us using the IP that we haven't even revisited."
Det lader altså ikke til at være en fast strategi for Microsoft.