A smartphone company acquired tri-Ace

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NiKKoM on 20 February 2015

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=995873

https://www.release.tdnet.info/inbs/140120150220029526.pdf

Japanese mobile company Nepro Japan has announced that they are acquiring tri-Ace as subsidiary. They will be acquiring all tri-Ace shares through a cash buyout, and will refocus the developer towards mobile efforts (smartphones and tablets). tri-Ace was a privately held company, so it's interesting to see the ownership breakdown in the announcement:

Yoshiharu Gotanda holds 555 shares (30.8%), Masaki Norimoto holds 546 shares (30.3%), and Kenji Goshima holds 511 shares (28.4%). In the cash buy-out, they will each gets about a million bucks each, and they will each also get 18,300 shares of Nepro each (worth about 1500yen per share right now).

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!)

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ktay95 on 20 February 2015

R.I.P tri-Ace... you will be forgotten and people wont care in a few weeks.

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fatslob-:O on 20 February 2015

Well, it was nice knowing ya Tri-Ace ...

I had best get started on Star Ocean before it goes cold ...

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fatslob-:O on 20 February 2015

Ka-pi96 said:
They were actually a pretty good dev.

RIP Tri Ace, I'll never play one of your 'games' again. In fact, I'll probably be trolling you all the time from now on. Oh well, at least we have the good memories of when you actually had your dignity still, right?

Like I did about Mistwalker ?