Yea, doesn't make sense to me. Maybe Sega was in a bidding war with EA or something like that.
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Official THQ Auction Results [Up2: Purchase Prices, Runner-Ups Revealed]
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Yea, doesn't make sense to me. Maybe Sega was in a bidding war with EA or something like that.
Phonomezer
Banned
GAF could've bought Homeland...
I'm confused, did Vigil get picked up or not?
I'm confused, did Vigil get picked up or not?
I think you're mistaken. Take 2 bought Evolve rather than Turtle Rock because THQ never owned Turtle Rock in the first place. They're just using studios as shorthand for the associated IPs.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I wonder if Sega put in the table the offer and all the other publishers where like:"WOAH dude all yours!"
AHA-Lambda
Member
RIP THQ and Vigil
I'm not surprised no one bought them but its still sad to see ofc
Patrice Desilet probably isn't a happy man either.
At least EA got nothing though.
I'm not surprised no one bought them but its still sad to see ofc
Patrice Desilet probably isn't a happy man either.
At least EA got nothing though.
Just 71 million dollars for THQ's carcass and no one wanted to put up more money for Vigil? Wow. Sad.
Lasthope106
Member
This. They are the only developer who can go head-to-head with Blizzard on the RTS genre. There is no doubt in my mind they were worth every penny of those $26 million.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Hence why I said two
Yeah that's a good price. Sega must see a lot of potential in Relic's current projects and past IPs.
edit: Such confidence would be good for Relic. Maybe this means an expansion of the studio in Vancouver?
That much I assume, but I also expected one for Saints Row.
Sega for Relic seems great considering how they treat the PC. Koch Media buying Volition is a wait and see. I like some of the games Deep Silver attracts and I don't recall hearing anything bad about them but this is also a pretty big studio compared to what they have. Hope it works out. Sucks for Vigil though! 
That $71 million figure is way closer to the original Clearlake bid than I thought it was going to be.
I really thought the final number was going to be somewhere between $100-120 million.
I could just picture it...Sega was in a bidding war...with itself!
They only needed to spend $500,000 to do it too.
SteveWinwood
Member
Possibly other debts they would have to take on as well.
Start up the gaf kickstarter!
SneakyStephan
Banned
Relic going to sega is probably the best thing that could have happened, isn't it?
Koch media published dead island so they are allright in my book so far.
Crytek ending up with homefront is delicious, I really dislike crytek and homefront is probably the worst shooter I ever played in 20 years of pc gaming. shamefully awful game with half life 1 'physics' for the vehicles (everyone who played hl1 mods with vehicles knows what I mean by that).
Sad to see vigil go down, darksiders 1 was an excellent game.
Koch media published dead island so they are allright in my book so far.
Crytek ending up with homefront is delicious, I really dislike crytek and homefront is probably the worst shooter I ever played in 20 years of pc gaming. shamefully awful game with half life 1 'physics' for the vehicles (everyone who played hl1 mods with vehicles knows what I mean by that).
Sad to see vigil go down, darksiders 1 was an excellent game.
Kun Aguero
Member
Anyone know anything about the next-gen volition game?
Gamer @ Heart
Member
Holy shit at the idea of clearlake trying to buy into all that for 10 million. What a fucking dirty move to go out on.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Seriously, the IP and the studio should be worth some money...
Yeah, I have to say I'm really surprised at the figures. It's like.... "that's it?" Wtf.
The Darksiders franchise has sold respectively, but was poorly mishandled by THQ. They sunk way more money into it than needed. That's always been a major issue for the now-defunct publisher. I could see WBIE or someone picking the IP up for cheap and maybe giving it to a proven studio and bringing Joe Mad back in.
Well they likely have the requirement to get the studio to 400 people still form the Canadian government.
PapaJustify
Member
Wow, we could have kickstarted buying some of these properties. Amazing.
It probably didn't, but I suspect Sega will go relicense it separately.
PinkCrayon
Member
Welcome home Patrice!
Mushroomer25
Member
Thank you. Didn't think they were involved in media.
Anywho, it'll be interesting to see what they do with the licence.
Neuromancer
Member
I don't really see how 20-25 million is chump change.
Quoting myself because this thread is moving so fast.
An optimist would wonder if someone was waiting for Vigil to get shutdown, then swoop in and try to get all the employees without paying that $500,000 if they were interested in the studio but not the IP. After all, even if they bought it, they'd still have the chance of employees leaving.
Then again, the world ain't fair.
aliencowz7
Member
Seems like ubisoft made out like bandits even moreso then everyone else considering the already low prices on this stuff.
I believe Relic's games were consistently profitable, they had multiple IP connected to them that showed promise, and had a history of making several great games in different genres.
Volition's best game was made 13 years ago. Admittedly it was a very good game.
Father_Brain
Banned
Might have something to do with 1666 still being a ways away from release and a new IP to boot, unlike Saints Row or CoH.
Phanatic8390
Member
I have to imagine that returned to Games Workshop. Hopefully we'll get some info soon.
Interfectum
Member
Yeah but I mean I think Relic is the better long-term investment. I don't think we can be sure what Saint's Row long term sales appeal is...
Volition doesn't own Freespace IP.