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Rumor: MS buys Epic for 80 billion MS Points?
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Update: Seems this rumor has been squashed with Mark Reign himself saying
http://www.dbtechno.com/gaming/2008/02/18/microsoft-to-buy-gears-of-war-dev-epic-games
If this is true, this is huge news. Epic's engine power lots of games, and honestly considering the Fact that Reign and Cliffy have talked about their move to consoles its entirely probable.
Edit: Personally I hope this is not true. I had been planing on picking up UT III once the linux client was finished. Not to mention how this could negatively affect the quality of Unreal engine licensed ps3 titles.
I have not seen the actual GamePro article but if they're going to make predictions about us selling Epic we would prefer if they started at $2 billion. Because we don't want anyone thinking that we're cheap.
http://www.dbtechno.com/gaming/2008/02/18/microsoft-to-buy-gears-of-war-dev-epic-games
Washington (dbTechno) - According to reports, Microsoft is planning to buy the developer of the hit Xbox 360 game Gears of War, Epic Games, for the price of $1 billion. This all comes as an announcement is expected for Gears of War 2.
The report comes from the latest issue of GamePro magazine which stated that by this summer, Microsoft plans to finish a deal to buy Epic Games.
It is expected that Epic Games will reveal the sequel to Gears of War at the Game Developers’ Conference 2008 this week (GDC 2008).
They have their booth set up right next to Microsoft at the show.
If Microsoft does acquire Epic Games, it would also mean that they would own the rights to the Unreal game engine, which is used on every single platform, including the rival PS3, for developers to use to make next-gen games.
This would basically allow Microsoft to make money off of the Unreal engine rights used to sell games on the PC and PS3.
If this is true, this is huge news. Epic's engine power lots of games, and honestly considering the Fact that Reign and Cliffy have talked about their move to consoles its entirely probable.
Edit: Personally I hope this is not true. I had been planing on picking up UT III once the linux client was finished. Not to mention how this could negatively affect the quality of Unreal engine licensed ps3 titles.
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Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I’ll tell you what happens in Demon’s Souls when you die. You come back as a ghost with your health capped at half. And when you keep on dying, the alignment of the world turns black and the enemies get harder. That’s right, when you fail in this game, it gets harder. Why? Because fuck you is why.
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I wonder if this will have any impact on the Unreal Engine licenses, I can't imagine it would.
Huh, so now a studio creating a Microsoft Published title is suing another studio that Microsoft is about to own.
Honestly, its their engine I'm worried about. While UT3 was fun, it showed me that they don't really care about their series anymore by making it look exactly like Gears, so. But the engine. That engine is used so much. That could be very, very bad for PC. Also, isn't Microsoft entering a PC game alliance or some such? Seems a tad contradictory to me.
I can quite believe it is bogus, but can you say how you know this? I was just thinking recently, I wonder if they'd consider putting in an offer for Epic, as some kind of Bungie replacement. That'd be a pretty ballsy move.
Microsoft publishes games for the PC all the time. Don't worry about that. It's probably a move to keep developers from making multiplatform games by crippling/removing UT3's PS3 compatability.
I could imagine the ps3 licensees could see some of their support from Epic dry up. Or see a considerable lag in feature or performance in updates.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
A lot of companies stopped using Renderware after EA bought Criterion.
Limed for truth. And MS has dodged anti-trust lawsuits before, and they have the money to hire the best lawyers/lobbiests/politicians in the world.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Protip: GamePro is not exactly a reliable source.
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The Phoenix Wright contradict-o-meter is going off the charts.
This would imply there was support in the first place.
This is a rumour from the same magazine which claimed a world exclusive at Gears 2, which turned out to be a few paragraphs saying 'Hey, Epic might make Gears 2'.
Of course, this still could happen. And if it did, it would be megatonnage and rock gdc. But really, I'd consider this extremely unlikely. Extremely.
There's an outside chance this is true, but yeah, Gamepro just plain makes shit up a lot of the time.
Yeah it's just crazy to think that different people would have different opinions
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Ah, just wondered if you had some inside news you couldn't reference or something. Yeah, I would be seriously surprised if there were any actual truth behind this, but at the same time, Gears 2 will likely be pitched as the next console-selling Halo replacement, and I'd been wondering to myself recently if MS would consider making an offer for Epic. With the pedigree of the magazine, it's probably more of a "what if MS made an offer" article.
EA bought Bioware/Pandermic for $800 million, and mass effect didn't shift 4.5 million like gears did. Seems to me to be smart news if it's true what with Bungie leaving.
That's not what I'm saying, but if you've got people citing directly opposing reasons as proof this isn't true.. what does that tell you?
Bioware is acquired by EA
Blizzard+Vivendi merge with Activison
I say the odds for Microsoft to buy Epic are much more likely then that.
That different people have different opinions.
Who cares if they're diametrically opposite to each other? Nobody ever said that everyone has to have the same reason for believing or not believing something? You can't really say people are contradicting themselves unless they're making both statements at once, which I haven't seen.
Anyway, As for my own opinion, I can't say I've heard much of gamepro either way, but the concept itself doesn't seem completely far-fetched or anything.
Yep, RenderWare pratically died overnight. They haven't even attempted to sell a 360/PS3/Wii version as far as I know.
I mean, this is looking to just be a repeat of the whole Bungie scenario, where they make a few good multi-platinum sellers, get burned out, and look for ways out of their situation.
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...there is a 76% chance this is fake.
The steady revenue from Unreal Engine licensing is far more valuable than Bioware was so 1b isn't nearly as outlandish as some are making it out to be.
I shall gorge myself upon mine own genitalia if this scandalous tale proves true.
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Exactly. And I honestly don't think Epic would sell for just $1B. Considering the impact and influence Epic has on so many games, MS would have to offer a lot more. To me, $1B isn't bad, I'd actually expect a LOT more.
A new challenger has entered!
So glad somebody stepped up.
Why the hell do I keep on recording these bets.
OCD : Likely.
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Corrected
if this is true than that really sucks.