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The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold

2 years ago by ylai to c/gaming

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Xantharian_ocelot 97 points 2 years ago

By shutting down a studio instead of selling it off or even letting it buy itself out, Microsoft ensures that no studio it has ever owned can become viable competition. Who cares about a diverse industry when you can keep all the IPs developed under your umbrella and shelve them for decades, instead of letting the studios that made them go on to work on their creative visions?

Article also mentions that it breaks the employees of those studios up so there is less chance of a competitor that makes another successful IP

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lilja 59 points 2 years ago

Ironically if the developers band together and start another studio they would probably have Microsoft knocking on their door with an acquisition offer in a few years.

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Risk 23 points 2 years ago

The trouble is the upfront capital though, but at the same time another publisher would surely bite at the thought of getting a talented studio's staff in one go?

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imPastaSyndrome 12 points 2 years ago

If only someone had money from their company being bought by Microsoft

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pupbiru 3 points 2 years ago

hello welcome to my new venture capital firm: we specialise in funding game studios where 90% of the staff got fired in an acquisition turned shutdown

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onion 12 points 2 years ago

Infinite money glitch

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