Penny Arcade - Comic - Anthemic

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Anthemic

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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Overkillengine

Got to maximize that feeling of pride and accomplishment. 🙄

V1m

I... I can't tell if this is just a joke or if it's actually what's happening?

dennis

V1m wrote: »

I... I can't tell if this is just a joke or if it's actually what's happening?

Well, it's true that EA is casting around for a buyer. The booster packs are less likely. But not completely ruled out.

zepherin

dennis wrote: »

V1m wrote: »

I... I can't tell if this is just a joke or if it's actually what's happening?

Well, it's true that EA is casting around for a buyer. The booster packs are less likely. But not completely ruled out.

I mean, right now, EA has maximum value. And video game developers and companies are going for way over what they should be priced at so it's a bit of a sellers market.

Asheram

I'm genuinely regretful that Embracer had the Square-Enix (is it just Square now?) deal, otherwise I can 100% imagine they would've picked up IP's like blueberries.
They would do very well with whatever's left of the old Westwood studios and IP's.

Armored Chocobo

Granted, with Anthem it's physically and mathematically impossible to do worse for the IP.

Hevach

Asheram wrote: »

I'm genuinely regretful that Embracer had the Square-Enix (is it just Square now?) deal, otherwise I can 100% imagine they would've picked up IP's like blueberries.
They would do very well with whatever's left of the old Westwood studios and IP's.

Square sold Embracer all their western developers and IP library for a song (Embracer paid about half as much for Cryptic, and that was two and a half MMOs, the western servers of a Chinese made MMO, and a stake in the Torchlight developer).

Its unclear if they just don't get the market, if they're doubling down on blaming those developers for problems Square created, or if they're actually telling the truth and are absolutely going to chase the NFT rabbit straight into the ocean. But whatever the real reason they sold cheap and are clearly intent on retreating back into their core Japanese developers and properties.

tgbennett30

Not a new idea, apparently.

"And lo, let the rarest and most expensive of these cards confer privileges in the online game!"

"HAIL SATAN!!!" :-)

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/26/the-consultant

Asheram

Hevach wrote: »

Asheram wrote: »

I'm genuinely regretful that Embracer had the Square-Enix (is it just Square now?) deal, otherwise I can 100% imagine they would've picked up IP's like blueberries.
They would do very well with whatever's left of the old Westwood studios and IP's.

Square sold Embracer all their western developers and IP library for a song (Embracer paid about half as much for Cryptic, and that was two and a half MMOs, the western servers of a Chinese made MMO, and a stake in the Torchlight developer).

Its unclear if they just don't get the market, if they're doubling down on blaming those developers for problems Square created, or if they're actually telling the truth and are absolutely going to chase the NFT rabbit straight into the ocean. But whatever the real reason they sold cheap and are clearly intent on retreating back into their core Japanese developers and properties.

Fair, they should have plenty of money left for a potential piecemeal purchase of EA assets.

hibryd7

Second panel caught me off guard and elicited a sort of scoffing laugh.
I love the idea of a company giving away stock in packs of bubblegum cards. It fits so many things so well.

Showsni

tgbennett30 wrote: »

Not a new idea, apparently.

Of course, there's also the Interplay way of selling off your company.