THQ Auctions Off Remaining IPs

[DrunkOnEstus]

I would love to know what the heck is happening with South Park. I just want that game to exist, so that I can buy the collector's whatever edition. I'll break on that one, season pass, pre-order, limited special edition, whatever you got.

 

[Bleidd Whitefalcon]

Someone pick up Vigil games so we may have the slightest chance at getting Dark Millennium. But you know what they say; "Expect the worst, hope for the best."

Although I am fairly sure Vigil has already been disbanded.

I might be remembering this wrong but didn't Crytek buy Vigil?

 

[RicoADF]

UP next:
EA BUYS OUT HOMEWORLD AND TURNS IT INTO A FPS WITH TACKED ON MULTIPLAYER!

Search your feelings you know it o be true.

If that happens you will die a horrible horrible death...... and it looks like I'd need to join the end of a line

Relic/Sega grab homeworld for the good of humanity!

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

It's odd, so often game publishers are viewed as villains (EA, Activision), when did Sega, which definitely has been around long enough and has been big enough to earn animosity, become someone we root for?

Well, I don't really "root" for Sega. It's just that they own Creative Assembly but don't seem to get in the way of things too much. You know, kinda like publishers used to be in the good old days. At leats that how it looks from the outside, I don't really know how much creative control do CA have.

Also, Relic could've been bought by EA, the guys who made Bioware develop an MMO.

Ahem. [http://www.gamespot.com/news/star-wars-the-old-republic-revealed-6199726]

In particular, a few key quotes from the article.

"Whispers of a KOTOR MMO began back in March 2006, when Bioware opened a satellite studio dedicated solely to an unnamed massively multiplayer online role-playing project. Leading the new operation were James Ohlen, lead designer of the original KOTOR, and Richard Vogel, former vice president of product development at Sony Online Entertainment, developer of the only current LucasArts MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies."

"'Doing an MMO is something we've wanted to do for probably over a decade', he [Ray Muzyka] said. 'We wanted to wait until we had the right partners, the right team, and the right IP.'"

Yep, sure sounds like EA forced them to do it. Those bastards actually went back in time a year before they got a hold of Bioware as well, just to divert suspicion.

OT: As long as Darksiders gets purchased, and someone with talent for sandbox games gets Destroy All Humans, I'm good.

 

[StubbornGiant]

I lost all hope for homeworld a while ago, as sad as it is THQs downfall my lead to its revival. One can hope.

 

[MPerce]

Here's hoping Relic can get its baby back.

Homeworld was a hell of a good game.

 

[Jiefu]

Actually.

If they don't get bought. Does this mean they enter public property? Wouldn't that be a good thing? If everyone could make awesome games using these IP's as a basis?

Oh who am I kidding of course not. The evil empire of the Mouse made sure that could never happen again. Gotta make the moneys.

Well, at some point, any IP becomes buyable. I mean, we have people in this thread offering joke amounts for them. I would pay $100 to buy up the Homeworld license just to say I own it, for example. Of course I would then set it free but yeah.

 

[marurder]

THQ Auctions Off Remaining IPs


THQ claims to have received "more than 100 expressions of interest in purchasing various titles", and is expecting a "vigorous" sale for its remaining intellectual assets.

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They must be desperate to try and up the bidding. "Expression of interest" /= commitment to buy. By saying this publicly they are lowering expectations for prospective companies to get something on the cheap. And trying to make others offer more to secure the IP.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Has everything been settled between South Park Studios, THQ and Ubisoft over The Stick of Truth? I haven't heard anything yet.