zarx said:
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Huh obviously you can tell I never played Metro 2033. I didn't realize it was a licensed title, THQ has been only publishing titles that it gets the rights too recently. This means if you have a new IP and you want to publish with THQ you need to be ready to surrender your rights to the IP.
I'm still not sure other big publishers would be interested in Metro. Just because it is very profitable for THQ due to its low development cost does not mean another major publisher would be interested. EA and Activision and Sega and the other major players are getting harder and harder to pitch new games too and they would be very skeptical about publishing a title in a franchise that sells less then half a million copies regardless of whether it profits!
Also keep in mind Conduit was called very successful as well by High Voltage and that franchise bit the bullet.
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I am not sure how the Metro deal works but they are still an independednt, but THQ may well own the rights to the videogame series I am not sure. I think 2033 sold quite well considering the nonexistant marketing, unproven developer and an IP that is basically unknown outside the ex Soviet Union countries including Digital sales are probably closer to 750k. Last Light seems to be getting more premotion and coming to 2 extra platforms so should do well over a million (and VGChartz is terrible at tracking games in the EU especially PC so is likely undertracked on here).
Tho it started after the first Metro game THQ does have it's Partners program which is managed by a semi autonomous devision http://www.1up.com/news/thq-announces-thq-partners-program "the program will offer distribution and publishing deals to developers, while letting the studios keep the rights and creative control over their intellectual properties.".
Developers that are covered by the partners program are Valhalla Game Studios (Devil's Third), Double Fine Productions (Costume Quest and Stacking), Turtle Rock (ex Left for Dead guys making something due 2013) and as of may this year Codemasters. It remains to be seen if this will be a profitable devision in the future but they certainly have some promising looking games.
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Well with those developers on board THQ could have a promising future. CodeMasters has created some very good titles considering their budgets and could be a massive asset. Double Fine and Valhalla are both good studios to my knowledge as well. I have to say if THQ follows this quality over quantity model they might just be able to turn things around within the near future!
