As a huge Relic fan, why would that be good for me? I see them turning Relic into an Xbox exclusive Warhammer 40k third-person shooter factory.
Yeah, fuck that idea.
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Rumor: THQ Cancels Their 2014 Line-Up & MMO, Looking For Buyers [Up: THQ Responds]
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As a huge Relic fan, why would that be good for me? I see them turning Relic into an Xbox exclusive Warhammer 40k third-person shooter factory.
Yeah, fuck that idea.
Seriously, Microsoft needs to pick up Vigil and Relic. Those are two fantastic fucking devs right there.
Volition is also awesome as hell. Sadly this means that Del Toro project will never get done, damn that burns my ass. I even enjoyed last years Red Faction, it wasn't as good as the open world one but it was a fun game and best of all the PC version was rock solid.
Microsoft shut down FASA and Ensemble.
I'm not sure they're a great choice for this unless you wanted Relic to lose half its staff, get spun off, and work on f2p MMOs.
What exactly about generals is looking pretty good? They've only shown like 15 seconds of what they claim is in-game footage...and that's it.
thetrin
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Seriously, Microsoft needs to pick up Vigil and Relic. Those are two fantastic fucking devs right there.
Fuck that. They'd force GFW into every PC release (if it ever even hits PC), and Relic JUST shed that shit.
ShockingAlberto
Member
"I hope Volition keeps its studio identity and is allowed to make games the way they want. I also hope EA buys them!"
MesserWolf
Member
but look how well RARE fared under their wing !!
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if it is a joke .... it isn't funny :'(
Proelite
Member
It's looking good because it's being made.
I won't tell names but there are some folks in the industry who told me a few months ago that THQ was a bad, dumb publisher bogged down by internal politics but it had a good distribution network. So their value is in their distribution channel. The company who buys them will have to "clean Augean stables". I think we'll see majority of their IPs sold or cancelled.
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Elginer
Member
As if EA buying them wouldn't make them Origin only. Both EA or Microsoft might shut them down or having them spinning sequels on end, I said MS cuse let's face it, they need more solid first party devs.
Live Free or Die
Banned
its all going according to plan.
All these publishers would fuck up these frachices with DLC, Origin, platform exlcusivity and other general dickery. Give 'em to Square Enix/Eidos or something.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I love how they used the GAF topic title in the source link.
If I had to guess they'll issue a press release on monday, sack Danny Bilson to show potential buyers and current owners they mean business and start laying off staff.
WB sounds like a good fit for Vigil and Darksiders.
Also if that happens, War or Death as a guest character in the next Mortal Kombat.
I love Nintendo and I love Vigil, but they are a terrible fit for each other.
Also if that happens, War or Death as a guest character in the next Mortal Kombat.
I love Nintendo and I love Vigil, but they are a terrible fit for each other.
SolidSnakex
Member
No one will buy THQ, but they'll definitely pick up some of their IP's and devs. Saints Row and Volition should be pretty easy to sell off.
They're also interested in MMOs given that they bought Turbine, so they could make use of both of their projects.
I don't really want Microsoft to acquire Relic or believe it will happen, but it would be nice to see Relic's take on a Halo strategy game (Halo Wars 2).
YES SPACE SIMS ARE SO POPULAR NOW CAN'T WAIT
Seriously, Microsoft needs to pick up Vigil and Relic. Those are two fantastic fucking devs right there.
As a fan of Company of Heroes, the Dawn of War Warhammer games and being a PC gamer, how does this benefit me?
Did Space Marine make you come up with this post?
Gully State
Member
Seriously....I'd rather they become a PC DD independent developer and just focus on making RTS..
God, I hope not. Nintendo would likely go for some sort of exclusivity then.
By the way, games like Metro Last light, Darksiders 2 etc are probably ok. It's more likely the next game in those series that would be in trouble.
Whoever runs Vigil has to convince Nintendo's top brass in Japan that it won't become the next Silicon Knights, Factor 5 or whatever and is a sound investment to make in the long term at a time when Nintendo itself is already losing money and constructing a new R&D facility in Japan to expand their teams and house a lot more workers. The group they'll converse with likely hasn't heard of Vigil in the first place and only made deals with THQ as a publisher. Nintendo didn't pick up a ton of 'up for grabs' Japanese devs that they actually worked with that went under instead they just hired 'some' of the staff. They also didn't acquire Next Level Games or Monster Games.
As for the other assets, the guys in Montreal can probably walk next door to get a new job so I'm not sure if they'll stay on. The value of the company will diminish if talent leaves the company and the smart money says they should. This was also the problem with Free Radical Design and Bizarre Creations. If the workers at THQ don't feel confident that they'll be picked up they'll start to leave and there's actually plenty of devs expanding right now.
SolidSnakex
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I still wonder how THQ managed to secure so much talent in recent years. Patrice left one of the top publishers in the world to go to THQ, and now he'll probably never release a game with them.
quite the opposite according to people in the industry but we'll see.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Creative freedom.
Tell creative people you will fund the game they've always wanted to make and they will come.
I said the same thing about Red Alert 3 =/
Well, at least it's Frostbite 2 in this case...
MesserWolf
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my guess is that they give (gave ?) much more freedom in comparison to the competition .
Next up from Nintendo:
It wouldn't be the first time Nintendo published a mature title. I don't see what's so surprising with that.
How many majorly marketed titles have they done this for in the past five years?
SlipperySlope
Banned
It seems we're right back to a developer or publisher closing every week it seems.
Their policy was that if you were a developer with a proven track record, you could make any game you wanted as long as you gave THQ the IP, and then they would try and figure out how to market it.
Unsurprisingly this strategy failed.
I can only tell you how many such titles were cancelled in the past five years (by Nintendo).