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THQ's bankruptcy sale details: Auction on January 22nd, Will Allow Piecemeal Purchase
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Unbelievable if true. I just can't comprehend why COH2's release would be cancelled right before when it is supposed to be released (2 or 3 months from now). I would imagine it is close to going gold soon.
Makes no sense to me. Also, what about the people who already pre-ordered it? Refunds?
No, it doesn't
It was due for release in March, it had a huge showing at Eurogamer last year (headline game along side Halo 4) and was entirely playable in December. It needs testing and releasing who wouldn't want free money? :/
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Heavy financial backing? The thing was practically done, and has a pretty strong following as far as PC games go.
zomgbbqftw
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EA are looking for an RTS developer, so really I'm sure Relic will find a home. EA will bid $1 for the asset in the event no one else does, but this is not going to be case, I'm sure of it.
I can confirm it too. The future of THQ assets is not yet known.
I can confirm it too. The future of THQ assets is not yet known.
Of course there would have to be refunds.
If someone uses said platform as their primary gaming device, far better for it to be exclusive to platform so it gets optimized for it. The only way the WiiU is ever getting a decent shooter (outside of CoD) at this point is if Nintendo makes it.
JehutyRunner
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Glass Rebel
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Thank god I saw Niro's and zomgbbqftw's post first when I came back to this thread. I'd have suffered a heart attack.
JehutyRunner
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EA Partners will nab it. It'll be fine.
A Human Becoming
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But is it possible CoH2 was canned?
Not sure why that game would be canned considering it is about ready for retail.
It's in closed beta and hasn't been pulled from Steam yet.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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I'd flip my desk, but it's bolted onto the wall and I want my deposit back.
The Elite
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Thanks.
That would suck. I try to avoid buying EA/Origin games (Dead Space 3 is the only EA game I've bought since Crysis 2) and I've already preordered Southpark ;p. I want the game on Steam damnit.
Seems like the studio head from Relic is working at Activision now.
http://kotaku.com/5977750/quantic-d...xseeds-surprise-killer-game-and-other-secrets
http://kotaku.com/5977750/quantic-d...xseeds-surprise-killer-game-and-other-secrets
Devs who use EA Partners are free to choose their DRM. Both Kingdoms of Amalur and Crysis 2 were available on Steam.
Plus, I saw a Crytek preorder in the registry a while back that I suspect will eventually turn out to be Crysis 3.
GarthVaderUK
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Phew, this is already an emotional roller-coaster, fingers crossed for the guys at Relic!
I wonder how many people are left at Relic these days. THQ even fire a bunch of the senior staff last year during E3.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Crysis 2 was not available on Steam at release; only when the DLC/patching stuff was finished and it became "Maximum Edition" did it get a Steam release. Admittedly that's still a better situation than ME3, but it hardly sounds like devs being "free to choose their DRM".
AHA-Lambda
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EDIT: false alarm.
It was on Steam at release, but then it got pulled. I own Crysis 2 on Steam and it is not the Maximum Edition.
This only happens when EA isn't fully funding a game.
As stump mentioned, Crytek is a fully funded EA title, so it's on Origin, whereas Kingdoms of Amalur and The Secret World are partially funded and thus on Steam.
This isn't true either. It was available Day 1 on Steam (which is how I got it). When Steam changed their DLC policy EA pulled it as well as some other games, then restored them later as complete editions.
Yes, it was, but it did disappear for some time only to reappear last year with the Maximum Edition label.
Edit: Beaten.
Which was ridiculous, since the games were added to Steam prior to the DLC policy coming into effect and said policy isn't retroactive*.
* Case in point.
Yeah part of why this isn't a much longer process is that the publishers buying these studios want to lose as little talent as possible.
The longer their fate is uncertain, the more people that leave.
I thought Crysis 2 vanilla (non-ME) was one of the games that got pulled from Steam (i.e. it was on there originally).
In any case, I'm sure it's possible that EA might try to grease the wheels, so to speak, to influence what DRM is used -- I can't imagine how an indie game like Warp would end up with Origin otherwise. But EA Partners do seem to have substantially more leeway.
It was just like that.
he's got one hell of a career
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Hah, yeah, forgot it appeared, disappeared, and re-appeared. My bad.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
huh. so that means whoever wants to buy shit, can and then re-sell it out later?
No, I think they mean attend as in "watch", so we won't get a live report.
Thank god...
You know, after this scare I'm almost ready to hear EA getting them... (almost)
JehutyRunner
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It wouldn't affect it too much. As mentioned, it's only the fully funded games from EA that skip Steam. As South Park and Obsidian have taken (though correct me if wrong) a majority of the bill, it should be fine.
As an aside, it was South Park Studios that approached Obsidian. And after it got greenlit, Obsidian and THQ entered into a publishing deal for the game. So again, it would be merely a case of a new publisher, which leads to the rumours that it being in trouble devwise is bullshit (besides the objection of South Park Studios to the auction of the game),
Well, I think THQ funded most of it, but SPS wants to enact the buyback clause, at which point SPS would have spent most of the money and presumably just be seeking a distributor.
That said they also want $2.275 million for defaulted payments, so this might be in limbo a bit longer than I thought if it was just a rights issue.
Nobody really knows, could be an hour, could be a day.
Petrae
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If only creditors are at this session, as is being reported, then-- aside from leaks-- I wouldn't expect anything concrete until tomorrow afternoon at the court hearing.
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