SecondWar on 24 January 2013
| JEMC said: As zarx pointed in another thread, those 500k are not a real indication of the real price of the IP. The reason is that the buyers were Crytek, who are developing Homefront 2 for them and, given their situation, THQ probably owed them several pays. So those 500k could be the real pricew of the IP minus the money THQ owed to Crytek (more or less). |
Crytek probably had first refusal on Homefront due to their role as developer anyway, and even if they didn't any potential publishers would have had to renegociate terms with Crytek to move the game forward or scrap the current build and start over with a new developer. In the same way that Darksiders III probably hasn't started production and thereby detering any potential bids, this would have made the purchase of the Homefront IP to any entity besides Crytek extremely unappealing.
