THQ Selling off Properties, Filing for Bankruptcy Protection

[Guest]

THQ's found a seller and filed for bankruptcy protection.

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[bak0n]

This is the 2nd time. I wrote a paper in my Jr. year in college about the first one.

 

[A Bad Day]

Awww... I was looking forward to Metro: Last Light

They had some excellent trailers: http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGQVkKB4lLU

 

[assasin32]

Why couldn't this be EA instead, I can't think of anything I hold against THQ. EA on the other hand I wish would just go out of business, too many bad business practices that company has.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]assasin32[/nom]Why couldn't this be EA instead, I can't think of anything I hold against THQ. EA on the other hand I wish would just go out of business, too many bad business practices that company has.[/citation]

Don't forget about Zynga and Hammerpoint Interactive (unprofessional developers that hacked their own WarZ game, mass-banned anyone who complained about bugs in the game, and trolled DayZ forums)

 

[misterkay]

Dawn of war

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]assasin32[/nom]too many bad business practices that company has.[/citation]You might object to EA's business practices, but they certainly aren't bad for business. If more people supported THQ, it might not have come to this. I know too many people that pirate games and never gave THQ a dime despite playing their titles.

I hope their future owners don't kill Metro Last Light or future Dawn of War titles.

 

[A Bad Day]

I never quite understood piracy of non-DRM games.

If you want a demo, but there isn't one. Email the developer. If that doesn't work, get your friends to email them. If that doesn't work, rally hundreds of fans and get them to flood the developer's inbox so there would be a demo.

Now DRMs? The issue is that the more you pirate the game from the wrong developer, the more DRM future games have.

The more you pirate from the ethical developers, well, you just encouraged the development of more mini-EAs or Ubisoft (notorious for DRMs in the past).

 

[kingnoobe]

I love how people are blaming piracy are you stupid? Please till me why other game makers are still making a fortune.. Here's a hint.. They're putting out good games or at the very least what the masses want (good or not is subjective).

DRM doesn't matter one way or another so don't try and use that crap. It won't be the first company to have to file, and it won't be the last.

 

[jonathan1683]

lol@ till me why

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]kingnoobe[/nom]I love how people are blaming piracy are you stupid? Please till me why other game makers are still making a fortune.. Here's a hint.. They're putting out good games or at the very least what the masses want (good or not is subjective). DRM doesn't matter one way or another so don't try and use that crap. It won't be the first company to have to file, and it won't be the last.[/citation]

I'm not blaming piracy, but to say that all of the problems are the developers' fault is, short-sighted.

Extra Credits did an excellent episode discussing about piracy: http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZv_lPwBFI

 

[abbadon_34]

Too bad, THQ made some of the best games in recent years. Sadly it take more to run a company, any company, than simply good product.

P.S. One the piracy talk, think Nike or Louis Vuitton. Both been "pirated" i.e. counterfeited for decades worldwide, yet they run a solid, profitable business.

 

[A Bad Day]

But is it right to purposely buy counterfeited goods, especially when the brand belongs to decent companies? Ask yourself that.

 

[SirGCal]

The Piracy crap is just that... crap. Look at good developers. I.E. Star Citizen coming out needed private backing cause Chris Roberts wasn't going to deal with game-destroying companies like EA. But to do it with backing, he needed to raise $2M on his own before his supporters would pick up the tab. With just 'us', he raised over $7M and the game isn't even out yet... And it'll be PC only... No Consoles. Hense also why 'EA' type places run away screaming... Obviously, there IS a demand... and IMHO, publishers are screwing themselves playing so hard to the consoles and ignoring the, now rather desperate, gaming community.

People will pay for a game worth having. It's the redundant CRAP they keep releasing, and now are in the 'MUST RELEASE VERSION X IN 6 MONTHS AFTER W WAS RELEASED' over and over again with nothing really new and torturing the developers who really want to make a good product with unrealistic deadlines and unfinished products and nerfed project plans... (cough CoD cough)

People will wait patiently (sortof) and pay reasonably for a good product... Problem is they are so rare anymore... Same old crap made for decade+ old hardware... /yawn...

 

[kingnoobe]

Bad that's apples and oranges and we both know it.

And I'm not blaming dev's. I don't know why THQ is filing.. Overspending, bad management, and/or simply poor business practices. But to try and say it's piracy that's just foolishness (not saying you are).

Also for that video.. I have pirated games and I have yet to play one over 30 mins that I havn't bought later. So that takes one of their own main points and throws it right back at them. I have saved a crap load of money because I've pirated games before I bought them, but not because its "I've already got it so w/e" it's because "thank god I only wasted my time and not my money on this crap *delete*".

 

[madjimms]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]But is it right to purposely buy counterfeited goods, especially when the brand belongs to decent companies? Ask yourself that.[/citation]
Yes I actually do think its a perfectly good thing. Nobody should be able to copywrite/patent a "design", wouldn't you be mad if someone patented a square with round edges & then started suing everyone because they made something similar & "stole" customers?

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]Madjimms[/nom]Yes I actually do think its a perfectly good thing. Nobody should be able to copywrite/patent a "design", wouldn't you be mad if someone patented a square with round edges & then started suing everyone because they made something similar & "stole" customers?[/citation]

I would also be mad if I hired a programming team, spent $1 million on a software (chump change compared to today's AAA title games), and watched the download hits of it on torrent sites reach into the millions while I have to explain to the bank why the software isn't selling.

Usually it ends in bankruptcy, or being acquired by another company like EA.

 

[ChiefScooter]

I'm a pirate! I pirated Skyrim. Why? I bought it on PS3, then realized that it's way better on PC, but I didn't want to pay twice for the same game. =(

I pirated Sins of a Solar Empire. Glad I did, too, because I hated it and deleted it.

I didn't pirate Pirates of Black Cove. I wish I did. I hate that game. Worst money I ever spent on a game.

I pirated Kingdoms of Amalur. Loved it, so I bought it.

I semi pirated Mass Effect. I bought the game, beat it, uninstalled it. Years later, Mass Effect 2 came out. But I had deleted my save game from ME1! So I scoured the web for saved games that matched mine, but could only find the ones that had DLC that I never had. So I basically pirated the old DLC in order to get the save files to work on my computer...

I won't try to justify pirating. I know it saves me money, and I am a firm believer now in demos. As kingnoobe said, pirating helps the consumer save from getting burned in the absence of a demo of a game. I used to love the old Shareware days, like Rise of the Triad. I had the Shareware version, loved it, bought the full version. Why can't we go back to that model? Here's a trial, see if you like it, then buy it. I would support that one hundred percent, instead of feeling guilty pirating a game first.

 

[A Bad Day]

That's what I was trying to say the whole time.

If there's a demo (trial version), there's no need to pirate it.

If there isn't, then complain to the developer. If they refuse to release a trial version, then their loss. Vote with your wallet.

And I really hate it when people pirate games from decent developers and never pay for it.

 

[griptwister]

THQ SUCKS. The only games I really enjoyed from them were Metro 2033, MX vs ATV, and Darksiders... but they got to big and got people making bad marketing decisions. Their demise was brought upon themselves... I'm curious to see if we will get Metro Last Light or not... Because, that's the only game I'd probably donate money to.