jarrod said:
;_;
Why do mergers always end badly? |
Two clashing corporate cultures. Mergers that aren't total hostile takeovers tend to lead to compromises in terms of who gets a say in the new power structure that aren't necessarily sensible. Good things can die and bad things can live as the remnants of Bandai and Namco (or X and Y) scramble for control of the new entity. Certainly Sega saw a lot of its strengths eviscerated in the merger, stuff that could have gone on to do good things. Sonic Team as their own entity turned out a whole slew of stuff (and their Sonic games were better too), then the death of Amusement Vision
Buyouts are generally better than mergers as far as keeping things intact on the lower levels, but this can also be false (given that EA took Pandemic, a perfectly good studio in its time, and destroyed it utterly)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
