Ubisoft May Bid to Purchase Staggering THQ

[kinggraves]

I'm not that concerned about the loss of THQ, which has a lot of shovelware behind a few high end titles. What I'm concerned about is the general trend taking place in the industry. The old publishers are flopping and being bought out by larger publishers. EA, Activision, Namco/Bandai, Square/Enix/Eidos. This is going to end with us having a select few AAA publishers and multiple indie devs. A few huge fish and a bunch of tiny fish. The huge fish do not innovate and the small fish can't get ahead.

The moral here is simple. AAA titles cost a lot to make, these companies do not make the billions you think they do. Stop pirating games you like and buy them, developers NEED profits to make sequels. A lot of good titles have died off over the years due to lack of interest.

 

[unionoob]

I would love to see if Gearbox or 2K games would buy them.

 

[ojas]

Just a note, Ubisoft have pretty much dropped their DRM beyond the one-time activation, and Uplay has an offline mode now.

 

[abraham_mammogram]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]The moral here is simple. AAA titles cost a lot to make, these companies do not make the billions you think they do. Stop pirating games you like and buy them, developers NEED profits to make sequels. A lot of good titles have died off over the years due to lack of interest.[/citation]

This, a million times this. I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up.

If you want to see games develop, people need to realize you have to pay for them. If no one payed for the product you produce, you would be out a job just the same as these developers.

 

[olaf]

I lost all love for THQ back when they released Summoner 2 only for PS2 :-s

 

[demonhorde665]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I sure as hell hope Ubisoft doesn't buy them. I hate Ubisoft as much as EA , and THQ was a great company ,they never ruined their games with shitty DRM. of course if ubi buys them they'll blame THQ's fall on piracy and stick DRM all over their games it'll ruin Saints row 4.

ubi soft and EA are just big a-holes , for starting up their own "markets" i can understand their reservations about selling games on a competitiors store , a little but hell they worked with steam in the past just fine , and now all of a sudden they view steam as a threat to their buisness , when in truth it's just a threat to their ability to abuse their customers.
Lastly all these companies starting their own "store" only serves to fragment the PC gaming comunity worse .. something that is absolutely terrible for buisness.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]MarioJP[/nom]Yea that would suck. I don't think Valve has the resources to buy THQ me thinks.[/citation]

are you living on another planet ??? steam has a hand in about 50 % of all pc game sales of coruse they have the resources ... damn must be nice living in a bubble?

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]I'm not that concerned about the loss of THQ, which has a lot of shovelware behind a few high end titles. What I'm concerned about is the general trend taking place in the industry. The old publishers are flopping and being bought out by larger publishers. EA, Activision, Namco/Bandai, Square/Enix/Eidos. This is going to end with us having a select few AAA publishers and multiple indie devs. A few huge fish and a bunch of tiny fish. The huge fish do not innovate and the small fish can't get ahead.The moral here is simple. AAA titles cost a lot to make, these companies do not make the billions you think they do. Stop pirating games you like and buy them, developers NEED profits to make sequels. A lot of good titles have died off over the years due to lack of interest.[/citation]


one of the most intelliogent posts i've actually seen on this web site , most posters seem to take offense at any post that seems remotely anti piracy.

ok let's say that the old saying "people who pirate weren't gona buy the game any way" is actually true (i personally think it's a bull shit statement). even if that is true the companies still use it as an excuse as to why they lost money , and a reason to use draconic DRM. Those facts in of them selves are REASON TO PAY FOR GAMES and NOT PIRATE.

any way well said bro.

P.S. Pirates suck big piles of monkey poo

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]one of the most intelliogent posts i've actually seen on this web site , most posters seem to take offense at any post that seems remotely anti piracy. ok let's say that the old saying "people who pirate weren't gona buy the game any way" is actually true (i personally think it's a bull shit statement). even if that is true the companies still use it as an excuse as to why they lost money , and a reason to use draconic DRM. Those facts in of them selves are REASON TO PAY FOR GAMES and NOT PIRATE. any way well said bro.P.S. Pirates suck big piles of monkey poo[/citation]

piracy for the most part evens everything out in the long run so long as your product is good, its been shown in many studies, at least in the music and movie industry, that piracy promotes sales, and even in the case of when it hurts sales its by 5% or less (my favorite one saying between .8 and 1.2%).

granted when something is complete crap, piracy hurts it far FAR more, as is the case with movies which you could end up paying something close to 20-30$ for a pos that you cant see is a pos from the trailer alone. there are a few where piracy nearly killed the movie in its entirety, and the reason it failed was based on 30000 people pirated a movie.

now when we are talking about videogames. there is the pc, which does have its fair share of pirates, however, thq specifically was mostly a console company from what i remember, their major sales came from console, not banking on pc sales figures, and i would find it hard to believe that people who pirated console ports (many of their pc games were) really impacted the sales all that much overall, sure they weren't screwed out of the 50-60$ new (remember if we dont get a demo, it is 50-60$ that we can not trade in or resell for the most part) for games they werent really banking on, but from what i remember any game they made that was a pc exclusive that did very well...

so here is the thing again, why did they tank?

 

[bigpoppastuke]

[citation][nom]hasten[/nom]trolling for trollings sake?[/citation]

Sorry that meant to say "THQ doesn't own the rights to UFC anymore. EA does." Christmas is making me tired

 

[pythonic13]

The reason I think that they tanked was they thought the uDraw game tablet would take off.... when in fact it was a very idiotic device which sold next to nothing