Glass Rebel
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Look at that Montreal assumption list.
It looks like they literally bought Patrice :lol
It looks like they literally bought Patrice :lol
Official THQ Auction Results [Up2: Purchase Prices, Runner-Ups Revealed]
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Because Turtle Rock isn't owned by THQ, so they can bid to buy out their publishing deal. Vigil on the other hand was a fully owned THQ studio, so who exactly would bid? Who would put up the money? How can they buy themselves from themselves?
Vigil would have to be bought externally.
well, you also have to pay the developpers while they developp a game.
Maybe it's because they didn't have a near finish product like most of these studios seem to. So they wouldn't care to fund development for a few years as opposed to a few months and already have a product out the door.
I'm not an expert.
Koch media bought it (and ubisoft bid too)
lol....poor guy
A Human Becoming
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Where are you reading that? I only see Giant Bomb saying that.
Plus Joe Madureira, one of the co-founders of Vigil Games and the the guy who created Darksiders and its visual style left the company.
Clay Davis
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did they buy red faction too? this is vitally important, would love a new red faction next gen.
Black Republican
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Imagine if Take 2 got Saints Row IP, i know i know they got GTA but still
Majukun
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sega is currently being restructured because the company that owns it (sammy) was tired of wasting money..but sammy itself it's pretty wealthy
I suspect it'll be at least a few days before we get an affirmed release date. With the game being virtually complete, though, I don't see it releasing any later than March/April, unless Ubi would prefer to have Steamworks removed in favour of Uplay.
Spirit of Jazz
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I feel terrible for Volition and as usual Obsidian can't catch a break.
According to the official document it was purchased alongside Volition.
Red faction seems lost.
Ultra LOL, and I can't say I'm sad, he can save Assassins Creed, and Prince of Persia while he's at it.
It doesn't -have- to be external. Someone in the company, or the person running the studio, if independently wealthy enough, could make a bid to buy the studio and run it. But clearly no one was. Vigil will forever be the tragic part of the ending to the THQ legacy.
That seems to mean Koch got Saints Row. Dont know about Red Faction, though.
A Human Becoming
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I read that. I'm just not sure with the phrasing.
Akward first day at work from a company he left 2 years ago xD
It was included with the sale of Relic to Koch Media.
BrokenSymmetry
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He created The Sands of Time, the best game of the previous decade.
HerbertFish
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Seems like a massive overpay for Relic, but the second bid was right there too.
SteveWinwood
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Clay Davis
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I didn't know the game was almost done. That's good news. Yay!
I don't think removing Steamworks for uPlay will result in any delay for the game... For the console version, the PC version would likely be delayed regardless by Ubisoft, so the extra month is perfect to do the change of DRM.
The wording makes it sound that only the COH IP was sold with Relic and only Saints Row IP was sold with Volition.
Contract says that Volition and Saints Row were sold together, but it sounds like that was it. Red Faction and other older Volition IP weren't included.
Same for Relic... they were bought along with the Company of Heroes IP, but none of their other older IP was included.
AlphaTwo00
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Well, the tech is internal to Volition, right?heartbreaking.
does this mean the geo mod engine is also lost?
Neuromancer
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Assy
LightofRohan
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Lolll. Oh wow, I just realized this... Patrice aint goin anywhere! YOU LEAVE US? WE DESTROY WHERE YOU GO
AranhaHunter
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Surprised Sony, MS, and, to a lesser extent, Nintendo didn't try to get some of these properties.
I don't think there were any; Montreal, Volition, Relic, and Vigil were all that was left of THQ from an internal studio POV. Everyone else had been closed down over the past couple of years.
storybook77
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Not really. As was already stated, terrific track record and you get a game that's all but complete. Just need to market it and ship it.
HerbertFish
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Maybe someone dropped their bid
CaptainTiptop
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Either Ubisoft were only half-arsed on the Volition bid or they really didn't expect Koch of all people to put so much money on them..
Unless Ubi delays the game, no.
Clay Davis
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I don't know, I hope it is. I've always felt the engine would come into its own next gen. the destruction tech was some of the best I've ever seen in any game.