Oh I didn’t know there was a thread for this. I just saw this note on the top of the site. So just had a quick read and it clicked with me how the things have been going lately on the thread.
But sure If I have something related to discuss I shall post on that thread 
Which is why MS are not interested
Disagree MS showed interested last year
It might be more to Microsoft’s benefit to try to get a license directly for their own studio to create than to acquire a WBStudio or fund a WBStudio produced game. Maybe?
Every publisher I believe showed interest in them, but the reality of the licensing situation I would say put most off
I speculate this is what they have done with the rumored KOTOR remake or reboot
It doesn’t really matter if you or anyone else shows interest at $2 when the seller is out of touch and is demanding over $10. It wasn’t unconditional interest, obviously, otherwise the acquisition would have happened.
I reckon the rumored pricing being 4 billion had more to do with it than the licensing deal.
That is the thing I never said they will pick them up but saying they are not interest in them is false
Pretty much the price when taking into account the uncertainty of IP licensing turned off everyone.
We will never know
If the price was much more reasonable for studios that don’t have their own IP for the most part, the studios would have been bought. Plenty of studios get bought even though they don’t come with their own IP - Playground for example - but the price obviously reflects that.
4 billion for WB Games was way too much and obviously all the big publishers agreed.
WB studios without the IP is about as interesting as an empty Coke bottle. It looks nice, you can use it, but it’s empty.
There’s probably an implied “at the sellers asking price” or “with the IP license restrictions” missing from most statements related to that. So both statements in spirit could be true, but the actual written statement would be wrong because of the omissions.
I don’t know they’re extremely talented, they would prove to be impressive with time.
Still remains to be seen if they even make it out of the WarnerDiscovery era without being sold off. It’s entirely possible WBIE gets shipped off and they just license out the IPs a la Lucasfilm Games.
Apple doesn’t strike me as wanting “AAA” budget games and devs on their payroll. Amazon is barely keeping AGS afloat, and Disney has already shown the don’t care to get involved in games.
True but the risk of acquiring all those studios without any original work to fall onto is too high.
I think its pretty clear everyone agreed 4billion price for them was not their valuation when nobody stepped up to acquire them last year.
I mean developers are not in the purchase, they can leave whenever they want. What you pay the most for is IP.
Anyway lets not fill the thread up with Acquisition talk to avoid the mods hitting us with a green message lol.