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[JoshHood]

seems legit.

Only 500k for homefront though?

Well I'm guessing they're just buying the IP seeing as they're already making the game, whereas in the case of Evolve its likely the team, game and IP. Could be wrong though.

Edit: looking at that figure for Relic and CoH, the Evolve thing must just be the IP or something...

 

[Sethos]

Only 500k for homefront though?

Yeah, they they overpaid.

 

[DocSeuss]

What the hell is going on with Homeworld and Impossible Creatures?

Evolve's the Turtle Rock game, right?

Yeah, they they overpaid.

Crytek has yet to make a bad game. I'm fairly confident that their Homefront was always going to be a game worth playing.

 

[Corto]

I've learned to be critical of "vertrauliche Quellen" but I'd have 0 complaints if this was true. The WH40k thing is a bit weird though, I somehow doubt it'd be sold at a THQ auction.

Not knowing the contract clauses between THQ and GW. If it's true Games Workshop should have a final word?

 

[Vilam]

The only conceivable reason I could imagine if Volition honestly wasn't sold yet was if companies were still bidding for it.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

I've learned to be critical of "vertrauliche Quellen" but I'd have 0 complaints if this was true. The WH40k thing is a bit weird though, I somehow doubt it'd be sold at a THQ auction.

Yeah, I imagined the rights would revert back to Games Workshop. I have no idea how these things work, though.

 

[Hematocryal]

EA is like Disney lol. At least I get Metro Last Light out of the last slice of pie.

 

[TaroYamada]

Crytek has yet to make a bad game. I'm fairly confident that their Homefront was always going to be a game worth playing.

Agreed, people shouldn't be judging Homefront 2 on the grounds that Homefront sucked ass. Crytek is a fantastic developer.

 

[Corto]

The only conceivable reason I could imagine if Volition honestly wasn't sold yet was if companies were still bidding for it.

Yeah. It's the most valuable asset for sure.

 

[Wiktor]

German website reports that:
a) Sega buys Relic and Company of Heroes: 26 Mio. $
.

 

[michaelius]

Crytek has yet to make a bad game. I'm fairly confident that their Homefront was always going to be a game worth playing.

Crytek has yet to make a good game. But at least they used to make good benchmarks until they went multiplatform

 

[McBradders]

Koch getting Saints Row is... I dunno, should I feel good or bad about that?

 

[Acidote]

I hope that SEGA report is true.

 

[Busty]

http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/63674/thq-verkauf-sega-kauft-relic-koch-evolve-crytek-homefront

German website reports that:
a) Sega buys Relic and Company of Heroes: 26 Mio. $
b) Koch Media buys Evolve: 5,2 Mio. $
c) Crytek buys Homefront: 500.000 $

Volition, Vigil, Metro: Last Light and some Warhammer 40k Licences not sold yet.

If true that's some major kudos to SEGA for splashing the cash when everyone assumed they were broke or unable to bid on office furniture never mind Relic.

I'm surprised that Koch Media made a bid let alone won anything. I wonder if they are using all that Dead Island money to aggressively expand.

Only 500k for homefront though?

While that's actually a bargain for the IP it's not really a surprise. Given the 'political sensitivity' around the concept of Homefront you were never going to get the likes of WB or EA bidding for it.

South Korea is a massive market for these media companies and they do not want to start pissing them off with stuff like Homefront.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Crytek has yet to make a good game. But at least they used to make good benchmarks until they went multiplatform

Oh for fucks sake

 

[Glass Rebel]

Yeah, I imagined the rights would revert back to Games Workshop. I have no idea how these things work, though.

Not knowing the contract clauses between THQ and GW. If it's true Games Workshop should have a final word?

From what we've heard, GW has very, very strict license clauses. It's practically impossible that a random publisher could just run up and buy the license and GW would have to take it without complaint. It's more likely that they're carrying the license over to SEGA and continue working with Relic. That German site is either speculating or there's more brewing behind the scenes.

Evolve's the Turtle Rock game, right?

Yup, runs on CryEngine 3 as well.

 

[Vargavinter]

Someone must pick up those Warhammer 40k licenses or ill be sad ;(

 

[Acidote]

I wouldn't be surprised if SEGA came to an agreement with Games Workshop for the 40k license too after they got the fantasy one.

 

[PaulLFC]

Hope it's true about SEGA/Relic.

Also hope the news that Koch haven't bought Saints Row/Volition doesn't mean EA/Activision get them. Please no.

 

[The Giant]

If Ubi has got south park. They might give a late Wii U port. But I know deep inside that's not gonna happen.

 

[Corto]

Someone must pick up those Warhammer 40k licenses or ill be sad ;(

It would be pretty bitter sweet Sega giving a home to Relic and WH40K going to another publisher/dev.

 

[McBradders]

Hope it's true about SEGA/Relic.

Also hope the news that Koch haven't bought Saints Row/Volition doesn't mean EA/Activision get them. Please no.

Wait, Koch aren't buying SR and Volition? EVERYTHING IS MOVING TOO FAST PLEASE SLOW DOWN A MOMENT.

 

[Wiktor]

It would be pretty bitter sweet Sega giving a home to Relic and WH40K going to another publisher/dev.

maybe the license is going to run out quickly, in which case it makes more sense for Sega to just wait and then get it from GW directly. Would propably be cheaper

 

[JoshHood]

I get why Homefront is so cheap (just the IP), but why is Evolve going for so much less than Company of Heroes? Is it just the IP, or the team too, or just the game up to now or what?

 

[Glass Rebel]

Wait, Koch aren't buying SR and Volition? EVERYTHING IS MOVING TOO FAST PLEASE SLOW DOWN A MOMENT.

They're still bidding over it. Koch just had the highest bid last time we heard about it.


GODDAYUM THIS IS SO INTENSE.

I get why Homefront is so cheap (just the IP), but why is Evolve going for so much less than Company of Heroes? Is it just the IP, or the team too, or just the game up to now or what?

If there's any truth to it, the $26m were for the IP and Relic while Evolve is just an IP and Turtle Rock will remain independent.

 

[Razyl]

I get why Homefront is so cheap (just the IP), but why is Evolve going for so much less than Company of Heroes? Is it just the IP, or the team too, or just the game up to now or what?

Turtle Rock Studios are not aquired by THQ. THQ was just the publisher for Evolve, so i think Koch Media bought the IP and the game and will replace THQ as publisher.

 

[EVIL]

South Korea is a massive market for these media companies and they do not want to start pissing them off with stuff like Homefront.

Which why its still strange since Crytek Seoul worked on warface which is a big deal over there.

 

[Glass Rebel]

where are Niro, Bish and zomgbbqftw when we need them? :lol

 

[herod]

is there a time limit for bidding or is it 'until it's done'

 

[TaroYamada]

I believe the reason why Homefront sold so cheap is because Crytek maintained THQ couldn't sell it to another publisher or something. Essentially, I believe the only option was to sell Crytek the rights.

Also I guess there's no doubt now, no way Clearlake's bid will outweigh the piece meal ones. Bye bye THQ, thanks for trying to do something different

 

[Giran]

I'm happy about Relic going to Sega, if true.

 

[Quentyn]

How big is Koch Media? I can't imagine they get both Evolve and Saints Row. Probably means Saints Row was way over their budget.

 

[Glass Rebel]

I believe the reason why Homefront sold so cheap is because Crytek maintained THQ couldn't sell it to another publisher or something. Essentially, I believe the only option was to sell Crytek the rights.

Also I guess there's no doubt now, no way Clearlake's bid will outweigh the piece meal ones. Bye bye THQ, thanks for trying to do something different

Well, as of now these are still rumours but Clearlake's $50-60m bid was never going to pass with Volition and Saints Row up for sale.

 

[TaroYamada]

Well, as of now these are still rumours but Clearlake's $50-60m bid was never going to pass with Volition and Saints Row up for sale.

Yeah, realistically I knew that but as THQ is one of my favorite gaming companies (CoH, DoW, Darksiders, Red Faction, Summoner, Saints Row, Metro) I held out hope, foolishly.

 

[Busty]

Which why its still strange since Crytek Seoul worked on warface which is a big deal over there.

Really? I didn't know that. Hmmm. Unless Homefront 2 takes a different tone or angle it does seem a strange decision by Crytek.

 

[brain_stew]

Sega bought Relic? Excellent, their PC divisions are really well run, its a great home for them.

 

[pieatorium]

Crytek buying the Homefront licence doesn't make much sense on the face of it, but at that price, they might as well have bought it, even if they only develop Homefront 2.

The only one with anything to gain by buying the homefront license is crytek imo since they are the ones making the sequel.

 

[michaelius]

Sega bought Relic? Excellent, their PC divisions are really well run, its a great home for them.

Yeah and they only use steam not some Origin/U-play crap so that's really best outcome possible for pc gamers.

 

[PaulLFC]

How big is Koch Media? I can't imagine they get both Evolve and Saints Row. Probably means Saints Row was way over their budget.

Dead Island probably made them a fair bit of cash but if there's a bidding war over Saints Row it probably won't be enough.

 

[Castor Krieg]

Not knowing the contract clauses between THQ and GW. If it's true Games Workshop should have a final word?

GW for sure has the final word, they always have near-total control over Warhammer IP licencing.

 

[JoshHood]

Turtle Rock Studios are not aquired by THQ. THQ was just the publisher for Evolve, so i think Koch Media bought the IP and the game and will replace THQ as publisher.

If there's any truth to it, the $26m were for the IP and Relic while Evolve is just an IP and Turtle Rock will remain independent.

Oh of course, silly me. Forgot Turtle Rock were independent.

 

[SparkTR]

Any word on what's happening with Metro Last Light and the Metro IP?

 

[Busty]

Any word on what's happening with Metro Last Light and the Metro IP?

They aren't owned by THQ but are licensed by them so I assume they aren't included in the auction.

 

[Zarx]

http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/63674/thq-verkauf-sega-kauft-relic-koch-evolve-crytek-homefront

German website reports that:
a) Sega buys Relic and Company of Heroes: 26 Mio. $
b) Koch Media buys Evolve: 5,2 Mio. $
c) Crytek buys Homefront: 500.000 $

Volition, Vigil, Metro: Last Light and some Warhammer 40k Licences not sold yet.

For $26m I would hope they got Homeworld in that package.

 

[TaroYamada]

For $26m I would hope they got Homeworld in that package.

That's a good price without it. CoH 2 was gonna cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15-20 million to develop IIRC, so they basically paid under 10 million for Relic.

 

[SpankmasterC]

Really? I didn't know that. Hmmm. Unless Homefront 2 takes a different tone or angle it does seem a strange decision by Crytek.

Why? They're making the sequel, it's cheap, so why not? I don't see how Warface's popularity in South Korea would make it a problem, a mass boycott isn't something that's very likely to happen.

 

[JoshHood]

They aren't owned by THQ but are licensed by them so I assume they aren't included in the auction.

Yeah I think we've heard before that the Metro rights aren't THQ's to sell, so I would've thought that anyone who picked up Last Light would also have to re-license the rights to be able to sell it.

 

[FACE]

"c) Crytek buys Homefront: 500.000 $"

LOL!

 

[Glass Rebel]

Re: I can imagine Crytek getting Honefront pretty cheap because THQ still owed them payments but I'm not sure.

 

[SolidSnakex]

"c) Crytek buys Homefront: 500.000 $"

LOL!

That was my first response. The budget for the original game was rumored to be between 35-50m...and now the IP sells for 500k.