How much do you think MS paid for Gear of War?

[Figgycal]

kowenicki said:

SxyxS said:

kowenicki said:

SxyxS said:

kowenicki said:
By the way...

Epic market cap is $500m

$500m for gears IP....?

Lol.

yes-you are one of the few here who can guess Gears longterm/overall potential and i'm pretty sure you'd be the last to sell this franchise for just 100mio or below ;)

you disagree with me?

you think more than $100m, perhaps you agree with the OP, who thinks they paid the value of the entire market value of Epic for it?

No i didn't dissagree with you about 500 mio.

I agree with you in that term.That's why i wrote  "yes",

but i disagree with you that MS has paid less than 100 mio(i#ve explained in a previous post why.Feel free to prove my post wrong)

 

btw i can imagine that eg GTA franchise could be sold above the market value of take 2 under certain special circumstances,though it is not very likely(eg the market value is strongly underperforming(market value does not always represent the real value) but it is impossible to aquire the entire company.

 

But:Please answer my question?

Would you sell a franchise that can generate with one single game 200mio dollar profit for less than 200mio?

or to be more precise:Imagine you own the gears IP.For How much money would you sell it to a company that has tons of money?(minimum ?)

I still say 200mio or 100mio + bonuses in the following 10 years 

Well you are guessing that it would make $200m profit.  I doubt that.

But if they are getting $100m in for essentially nothing then that is always tempting.

Furthermore.... Epic recently sold 40% of its entire business to a chinese company for $300m.

$100m for just the IP of one game is already too much, $200m is silly.  $500m is insane.

Epic is making games for a chinese audience now anyways. They don't need Gears.