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FrontlineJaguar on 22 February 2015
Angelus said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Angelus said:
Not that I anticipate this but....

I say give Ubisoft some money for the rights to Prince of Persia. They're not really using it and haven't properly in a while, they're way too busy pushing AC when it comes to Action/Adventure. So take it off their hands for a stack of cash and that way MS gains a permanent stay franchise in that genre (they're willingness to buy timed exclusivity for Tomb Raider shows they acknowledge the need for one)

I think MS would be better off buying a studio with that money than a single franchise. They don't have enough studios to make the games they are already doing and are having to outsource, which isn't really working out so well (Halo MCC + Phantom Dust).


I don't agree. Studios don't like being bought out, we all now this. Key members end up leaving, taking a bunch of others with then mostly, and then what are you left with? When you have a bunch of big time IPs to work on you can always find someone to partner with who will be foaming at the mouth for a chance to make that game for you, and then that can lead to great long term partnerships. At least that's how I see it.

Yes me too since whenever you buy a medium-big studio key members end up leaving so better outsource or work with other devs



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Angelus on 22 February 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Angelus said:
Ka-pi96 said:

I think MS would be better off buying a studio with that money than a single franchise. They don't have enough studios to make the games they are already doing and are having to outsource, which isn't really working out so well (Halo MCC + Phantom Dust).

I don't agree. Studios don't like being bought out, we all now this. Key members end up leaving, taking a bunch of others with then mostly, and then what are you left with? When you have a bunch of big time IPs to work on you can always find someone to partner with who will be foaming at the mouth for a chance to make that game for you, and then that can lead to great long term partnerships. At least that's how I see it.

Studios that are doing well don't like being bought out. Studios that aren't doing so well however, they like to be bought out, then the employees get to keep their jobs...

There have been quite a few devs that have been in a bad position and perfect for a buyout in recent years. Anybody that was under THQ, Atlus or Crytek as examples.


And do you know what pretty much all those guys have in common? Nobody wants to buy them, they want their IPs. Nobody wants struggling studios.



TiagoCosta on 22 February 2015

Atlus was making money, it was their owner who was struggling.

Sega ended up getting them, but there was lots of competition.



Angelus on 22 February 2015

Not saying that there aren't exceptions but by and large it's just true that big publishers aren't looking to buy struggling devs (for whatever reason that struggle exists). They'd rather let em go under and then headhunt specific guys. I can give you any number of examples of that happening with even great working teams like not too long ago with the Kingdoms of Amalur devs or the Darksider group. Could someone have gotten all those guys to come over to them (even under a different name) and keep working together since they were clearly making sweet games? Yes. Easily. But nobody did.



Kerotan on 22 February 2015
Angelus said:
Not saying that there aren't exceptions but by and large it's just true that big publishers aren't looking to buy struggling devs (for whatever reason that struggle exists). They'd rather let em go under and then headhunt specific guys. I can give you any number of examples of that happening with even great working teams like not too long ago with the Kingdoms of Amalur devs or the Darksider group. Could someone have gotten all those guys to come over to them (even under a different name) and keep working together since they were clearly making sweet games? Yes. Easily. But nobody did.


And then they go buy the IP?  Not sure I like that but it makes business sense. 



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TiagoCosta on 22 February 2015

Managed to do some viking achievements today, I'm at 50% done... it's enough lol



Angelus on 22 February 2015

So my brother and I have each other's accounts set to be home on the other person's Xbox. This allows us to share digital games with each other since any account gets to play the games of the home account on a console for free. It also means whenever I buy something on my account his console will automatically download it (unless manually cancelled). All pretty cool. It also leads to situations like this......

I come home from a weekend trip to 44 notifications. WTF is this I ask myself? Apparently my brother had bough DoA5:LR, which for some messed up reason seems to download every single damn character as well as several outfits/outfit packs separately. Thank god I wasn't here for all that cus man I would have lost my shit lol



Spade on 22 February 2015
TiagoCosta said:
Managed to do some viking achievements today, I'm at 50% done... it's enough lol

I've been slacking in the acheivement department recently. Need to step up my game this week and next :3 



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TiagoCosta on 22 February 2015
Slade6alpha said:
TiagoCosta said:
Managed to do some viking achievements today, I'm at 50% done... it's enough lol

I've been slacking in the acheivement department recently. Need to step up my game this week and next :3 

I'm doing rather well this month. But I will be back to normal in March(back to uni). 



GamechaserBE on 22 February 2015

Today I discovered an Gem of a game called Evoland....It is a Zelda/JRPG mix of a game where the game grapics constanstly improve..

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxBjDGc4YCg