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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months ago

Original Arkane founder asks Xbox CEO 'how much' in bid to buy back studio

www.express.co.uk

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Original Arkane founder asks Xbox CEO 'how much' in bid to buy back studio

www.express.co.uk

alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months ago
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The original founder of Arkane has asked Xbox how much it would cost to buy back his studio amid massive restructures for the company.
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  • Annoyed_🦀  ( psx_crab@lemmy.zip ) 
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • Zephorah ( Zephorah@discuss.online ) 
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    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.

    • 4am ( 4am@lemmy.zip ) 
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      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!

    • Marn ( Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      They can probably claim it as a loss for taxes and they would be a lot

      • definitemaybe ( definitemaybe@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Sure, but if they sold it, they’d have less losses which is strictly better.

  • Texas_Hangover ( Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ) 
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    Arkane, and id refugees, should band together and make the single most kick ass game of all time.

  • fistac0rpse ( fistac0rpse@fedia.io ) 
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    “While Double Fine and Compulsion Games have been handed back to management”

    what does that mean?

    • apotheotic (she/her) ( apotheotic@beehaw.org ) 
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      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

  • Someonelol ( Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    May Microsoft let Arkane go. The world needs Dishonored 3.

  • DebatableRaccoon ( DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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”

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