THQ Stock Price Crashes

[Canadish]

I've got all the religious symbols I could muster, and I'm praying to every god I've heard of so that EA or Activision doesn't buy them out.

I'm really sad to hear the news, THQ weren't perfect, but they were one of the better Publishers out there.
Now we get to watch the big companies get bigger. Again.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

THQ had one or two good licenses, but that's about it.

Looks like the market pulled a THQQQ.

Eh? Eeeeeeh?

*waits for 'Applause' to start flashing*

Aw, fuck it.

 

[Treblaine]

Spoiler

=hidden to save your shame]

Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.

Someone hasn't played Saints Row the Third.

Yes I have: Saints Row 3 was the Call of Duty- Black Ops of sandbox gaming.

What possible basis can you have for that other than and utterly baseless and meaningless attempt at denigration?

Saints Row 3 delivered far more than the supposed king of city sandbox gaming; GTA4. GTA4 looked good, was reviewed highly and sold well yet in retrospect everyone hated. That's Black Ops.

Saints Row wasn't reviewed highly, didn't sell well and in retrospect people say it was overlooked.

It had freaking jet bikes... JET BIKES!!

I don't know about your motorcycle BUT MINE IS A JET AND IT CAN FLY!!!!

It was an open world with far more enemy variety.

Please, HOW is Saints Row the Third the "Black ops of Sandbox games"?!?! What is a better sandbox game.

If anything Saints Row the Third is the Serious Sam 3 of sandbox games!! GTA4 is the Black Ops.

 

[Treblaine]

Oh I've got empathy, I just prefer not to waste it on people who make mediocre games.

I don't think you understand how empathy works Mr Cyborg-who-doesn't-understand-humanity.

Empathy is not pure self-interest of caring when someone who benefits you goes away and can no longer benefit you.

Empathy is for all other sentient beings you can relate to, they make games and you show enough interest in games to comment on a gaming forum and decide if they are mediocre or not. See you don't merely "not have an opinion" you have taken interest and become involved enough to decide they are mediocre.

Or have you?

Is it that THQ just hasn't got the whizz-bang 100-million dollar marketing presence of Activision or EA to grab your interest, and you mistake your lack of interest for assumption of mediocrity. Is your lack of attraction you assuming there is nothing there to be attracted to,

See, I thought Saints Row The Third was "mediocre"... before I played it. Hell, I bought it in a steam sale and didn't play it for months. God dammit, if it wasn't the sandbox game we'd been promised after San Andreas but eternally denied. It looked good, it played like mario kart racing through the streets, it had such variety and pacing. I. Love. It.

But for almost a year after it's release, I would have listed it as "Mediocre".

 

[Treblaine]

Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.

Tell that to Relic Entertainment, Vigil Games and Volition, who are all genuinely talented developers that will be affected by THQ's mismanagement.

Oh dear!
The makers of Darksiders, Warhammer 40,000, and Saints Row 3 might go down with them?
What shame! /sarcasm

You reap what you sow

I was just wondering, we have established that you have TERRIBLE taste in what you think are bad games, please tell us what you think are "good" games.

After all, you're not many any kind of reasoned argument, it's all just your opinion from your tastes. Lets see what your tastes are.

 

[Tumedus]

This just in: The Titanic may be in real trouble. It turns out that the release of all those little boats were not meant to repair the ship and that none of them have cross Atlantic capabilities. Apparently if you can't fix the actual boat, it will continue to sink.

 

[Treblaine]

I'm beginning to think a buy-out will be the best case scenario for THQ at this point.

Which is not really a comforting thought, considering who the primary buy-out'ers might be.

Zenimax (daddy of Bethesda, id software, Arkane Studios (Dishonored)), Take-Two interactive* or Square Enix would be most likely and ideal. Square Enix bought out Eidos in 2009 and seem to have run it well. Take-Two owns Rockstar and so GTA which is a major competitor with Saints Row series. Or is it? GTA seems to be going in a completely different direction from Saints Row.

Very bad takeover options would be Activision or EA. Though I'd prefer Activision than EA. Preferably neither.

Valve buyout would be great, but it seems a bit too much of a reach for them.

 

[RicoADF]

So Homeworld, the Dawn of War Series, Company of Heroes, Darksiders and the Metro Franchise are all mediocre to you? Or are you just being petty for the sake of it?

If I may weigh in on the conversation:
DaW2's campaign was pointles busy-work,Retribution had zero replay value and the MP was a spess mehreen fuck-fest.Chaos rising was good though.And while on the subject of Multiplayer, CoH had no balance - it get's pretty annoying when you get Nazi bum-raped in the first 30 seconds just becouse you didn't choose the exact counter unit to what the enemy has(or maybe I was just bad at it,but I digress).

Space Marine also was a festival a boring repetative combat, mediocre story and less sad about the boss fights the better.
You also forgot to mention "Saints Row the Turd".

I admmit THQ has released some of my most beloved games, but I can't turn a blind eye to the mediocrity of resent years.

Company of Hero's is one of the best RTS games made, period. The game required tactical thinking, rather than zerg rush, the AI was intelligent and its cover system for infantry was perfect. I agree balance was alittle off, but not too badly and tbh good tactics prevailed.
God I hope they don't go under, relic/volalition etc make the best games bar none.

 

[unstabLized]

Noooooo.. I like THQ. They're not that amazing, true, but they're not the absolute worst. Poor guys, hope they somehow get out of this alive.

Edit: Found out that THQ is behind Metro: Last Light... COME ON THQ, STAY WITH ME. COME ONNNNN,LIIIIIIIIVE DAMMIT! LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!

 

[MetalMagpie]

Anyone got $25 million handy as that is all that's needed to buy THQ.

Kickstarter anyone? *is almost serious*

Actually, I have a feeling buying a company would be against the Kickstarter rules. Pity.

Yikes, looks like Pachter made a solid prediction!

I know! Maybe the world really is going to end on December 21st... _>

OT: I'll be sad to see them go. I actually really like Dawn of War II. My boyfriend and I had loads of fun playing the campaign together.

 

[banksy122]

So Homeworld, the Dawn of War Series, Company of Heroes, Darksiders and the Metro Franchise are all mediocre to you? Or are you just being petty for the sake of it?

If I may weigh in on the conversation:
DaW2's campaign was pointles busy-work,Retribution had zero replay value and the MP was a spess mehreen fuck-fest.Chaos rising was good though.And while on the subject of Multiplayer, CoH had no balance - it get's pretty annoying when you get Nazi bum-raped in the first 30 seconds just becouse you didn't choose the exact counter unit to what the enemy has(or maybe I was just bad at it,but I digress).

Space Marine also was a festival a boring repetative combat, mediocre story and less sad about the boss fights the better.
You also forgot to mention "Saints Row the Turd".

I admmit THQ has released some of my most beloved games, but I can't turn a blind eye to the mediocrity of resent years.

Spoiler

=hidden to save your shame]

Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.

Someone hasn't played Saints Row the Third.

Yes I have: Saints Row 3 was the Call of Duty- Black Ops of sandbox gaming.

News flash ----- Opinions are not fact. Shocking I know.
I enjoyed SR:3 playing co-op with a friend, lots of laughs and lots of fun.
The Warhammer 40k series and Space Marine are among my favourite games. The games are brilliant, the stories are amazing, the art is stunning and lore is spot on. I am not saying their the among the best games out, I am saying they are the best games FOR ME. Just like they aren't good games FOR YOU. Stop stating opinion as fact and you won't come off as such almighty assholes.

 

[Evil Smurf]

This makes me sad, I really liked SR3 was going to buy a copy (I'm not a pirate I played it on a friends game console)

 

[major_chaos]

Oh dear!
The makers of Darksiders, Warhammer 40,000, and Saints Row 3 might go down with them?
What shame! /sarcasm

You reap what you sow

And Red Faction, and the good saints row games, and CoH among other things. When did you go from the funny pun guy to another hateful bile spewer that appears to fall into the "you made a game/s I subjectively didn't like so I hope you lose your job" crowd?

 

[TimeLord]

So long as someone else scoops Relic out of this mess with the Dawn of War rights then everything will be fine to me!

I am not a fan of any of THQs other games but I want DoW to survive so much.

Oh and Red Facton. But only the very first game and at an absolute stretch the second. I loved the first Red Faction so much that I still play it, but they have gone so wildly off course with the current gen games that I have no interest any more in the series.

 

[Cardbird]

They just released WWE 13. I hope they/Yukes sticks around long enough to get all the DLC out.

Poor THQ,once upon a time, you were one of the big four publishers.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

What goes up eventually must come down. It's only a matter of time and circumstance. While I enjoyed some things about THQ, there were almost an equal number of things I didn't like about them.

The only people I feel sorry for are the people who actually put forth the effort into making games some people enjoy. May they wind up at companies who can give them a good working home.

 

[Pandalisk]

THQ, what are you doing?
THQ, STAPH.

Seriously, your developing Dawn of war 3! Dawn of War 3. a reported spiritual successor to the original Dawn of War style of gameplay and not the Dawn of War 2 style of gameplay. Please THQ, just release Dawn of War 3 first before you go under.

I dread to think of all the RTS glory we'll miss out on if another company picks up the rights to it and just churns out pale imitations of what could be.

 

[LordLundar]

Yikes, looks like Pachter made a solid prediction!

Well Pachter can make solid predictions. Of course its usually when someone walking by who glances at the info goes "****ing DUH!" but he can be right in those situations.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Hey, THQ.

Please try not to land on Obsidian when you fall, yeah?

 

[Treblaine]

Spoiler

=hidden to save your shame]

Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.

Someone hasn't played Saints Row the Third.

Yes I have: Saints Row 3 was the Call of Duty- Black Ops of sandbox gaming.

Saints Row 3 delivered far more than the supposed king of city sandbox gaming; GTA4. GTA4 looked good, was reviewed highly and sold well yet in retrospect everyone hated.

It was an open world with far more enemy variety.

i kind of have to disagree with you.

saints row 2 was what gta4 should have been.
part silly fun, part serious.

saints row 3 was just silly fun. yes, the hidden mission was awesome but it lacked a serious tone and quickly became monotone.(johnny gats death was meaningless)

plus the upgrade that turns you into god was out of place.

Where is the great lauding for the poor facsimile of Boys in the Hood in San Andreas? It's not there because it doesn't exist. It was loved for things like zooming around in a jetpack shooting soldiers off a speeding train to steal some weird alien goo. It was loved for everything BUT the seriousness. GTA developers have strange pretentions of making great topical crime dramas.

It's not a like for like equivalent of San Andreas that was the promised successor, but continuing along the theme of what was appreciated. The humble origins of some downtrodden street thugs wasn't what was memorable and loved, we can see feature films that do a far better job. But is there driving around in fun vehicles doing weird missions.

The story was what you made of it. The character was to an even greater extent what you made of them.

How can you call Saints Row the Third monotonous with such enemy and vehicle variety, customisation and different types and ratings of difficulty?!? That's not a rhetorical question, the "and quickly became monotone" is a complete non-sequitur, it came out of nowhere, with no basis in fact.

Vacillating schizophrenically between fun tone and serious tone CANNOT WORK. It has never worked, one only drags down the other. You can't go from making witty remarks about shooting up zombies with Burt Reynolds to suddenly sad-trumpet-Niko-talks-about-his-former-life. That's not the cure to monotony. That's hack writing.

And Saints Row 3 didn't have a cast of harmless buffoons, there were resolute threats that were played deliberately over the top.