Probably not for sale since they will want to simply lock the IP in the graveyard rather than let someone else create something with it.
Imagine buying Arkane Studios and forcing them to do Redfall.
It’s the Bethesda way.
And Microsoft!
It’s nested enshittification.
(Though to be fair, Redfall was BGS’s fault).
Colantonio’s question of ‘how much’ might be in jest given the emoji use
Nonono, i will help pitch in $5 for it to happen. Arkane need to come back, immersive sim need to come back.
If they’re just discarding it, why wouldn’t they? Arkane was good. Let it live again.
Then, Spiders, hopefully. I’d like a finished Greedfall 2.
The whole reason they bought it in the first place was so it would either make them money, or die.
They’re not going to set it free to do well again, they’d lose money that was never theirs to begin with!
They can probably claim it as a loss for taxes and they would be a lot
Sure, but if they sold it, they’d have less losses which is strictly better.
“While Double Fine and Compulsion Games have been handed back to management”
what does that mean?
Double fine and compulsion are no longer part of Xbox and double fine and compulsion will retain the IP of anything they made while at xbox
Unfortunately, I don’t see that being cheap. Glad to see it though. With everything we’ve seen in recent years of companies get bought and shoves through the money press, I’ve been wondering why we don’t see more titles like this. I know it’s all about ✨money ✨ but if you’re already shuttering a studio, why not sell the title rights? I’m sure the poor layoffs often wouldn’t mind a chance at putting the studio back in the spot the corpos ripped it out of.
“How about 5 bucks and a stick of gum for that thing you’re about to put in the bin?”
“Alright, weirdo”
