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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.



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BlkPaladin on 24 January 2013
JEMC said:
BlkPaladin said:


Vigil was appearently shuttered by the one who was in charge of the sale, it was a one shot for development teams since they need to get paided and they will not get paid by the bank in charge of the sell off. Platinum has contacted them to see if some of them wanted to work at Platinum. The IP will go for cheap. The cheapest IP in the first sales went for a little over 500k, which probally indicate the starting bid was specified as 500k. So the new starting bid will be a lot lower than that in the second sale so someone will buy it.

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).

OT: While I'd like to see the story going on with the other 2 horsemen, I'll go against the rest and say that I don't really like the idea of Platinum being in charge of them.

Mind you, I know they are a bunch or very talented and very good developers, but even though their games have some resemblance to Darksiders, there are many more things that set them apart: the genre (action/hack'n'slash vs action/adventure), the pacing, the art style, etc.

I'm not sure a Darksiders game developed by Platinum would feel and play like the other two previous games.


THQ's debt to Crytek wouldn't be involved in this. THQ wasn't involved in the liquidation. Distresst Debt Investing is the party doing the liquidation. And most auctions like this are blind auctions where a minimum bid price is given. And the bidder hand in their maximum bid in envelopes. The liquidator only care about selling the items they don't give prefered service to debtors.

And I wasn't basing this totally on what Homefront sold for. There was a list of winning bids and next best bids (In case the winner doesn't pony up the cash in time.)

And I made a mistake I thought the runner up for Evolve bid 500k they bid 250k. So that was probally the minimum bid. So that is an indication that next sale the stuff will go cheap.

http://kotaku.com/5978425/thq-is-getting-sold-off-today++heres-everything-we-know

The list of winners and runners up are listed in this article.



JEMC on 24 January 2013

@BlkPaladin: Thanks for that, I didn't know how the bid worked.

That leaves us with what SecondWar said and the fact that everybody went with lowest amount possible.



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enrageorange on 24 January 2013

The big issue with darksiders is the combat is kind of meh compared to some other hack and slash games. If the ip is to be kept as a hack and slash adventure game platinum is no doubt the best choice because they are by far the best in the business when it comes to hack and slash combat.

Although I don't think platinum is in a position to buy the ip. They don't publish their own games so they would need to work with a publisher to make it happen.



AndrewWK on 24 January 2013

Please god make that happen. I am huge Platinum games fan. In terms of gameplay Platinum is top notch. And the Darksiders franchise could use some fresh ideas and some Platinum crazynes. They should start crowd funding if they need some extra money.



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Rafux on 24 January 2013

Sony should buy Vigil and make an open world God of War title.

I love Darksiders but for some reason it never sold big.



Dallinor on 24 January 2013

I don't think this is a good fit for Sony. They already have the highest selling hack and slash game and a very high selling action adventure game. If anything they should be looking to expand their portfolio and offer first party releases in genres that won't have their own titles competing with one another.



 

osed125 on 24 January 2013

Please let this be true, I don't want to see Darksiders die :'(



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A203D on 24 January 2013
Dallinor said:
I don't think this is a good fit for Sony. They already have the highest selling hack and slash game and a very high selling action adventure game. If anything they should be looking to expand their portfolio and offer first party releases in genres that won't have their own titles competing with one another.

I would say Darksiders is more of adventure game than an action game. In that respect I don't think it would be a bad fit for Sony.

Personally its sad that people are interested in the IP and not the studio, because its those employees who have lost their jobs.

I can see someone like Square Enix or Capcom interested in this series. Microsoft and Sony I'm not sure, but its possible Nintendo has an interest as well.



BlkPaladin on 24 January 2013
A203D said:
Dallinor said:
I don't think this is a good fit for Sony. They already have the highest selling hack and slash game and a very high selling action adventure game. If anything they should be looking to expand their portfolio and offer first party releases in genres that won't have their own titles competing with one another.

I would say Darksiders is more of adventure game than an action game. In that respect I don't think it would be a bad fit for Sony.

Personally its sad that people are interested in the IP and not the studio, because its those employees who have lost their jobs.

I can see someone like Square Enix or Capcom interested in this series. Microsoft and Sony I'm not sure, but its possible Nintendo has an interest as well.

Platinum Studio the same developer who is interested in the Darksider's IP has "reached out" to some of the people who have worked at Vigil and asked if they want to work at Platinum.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/24/platinum-games-considering-buying-darksiders-ip

Its under the video in the article.