deathdealer Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Activision is reportedly eyeing an acquisition of Grand Theft Auto owner Take-Two. "There are very strong rumours amongst people at a very senior level within the global business," a senior games executive told MCV. "But there're not much more than that at the moment - they are just rumours. And, of course, given Activision's news this week, everyone is now looking to see what their next move is. But you can definitely put two and two together and make four-ish." If true, such a move would potentially unite brands like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and BioShock. In 2008, Activision's chief rival EA unsuccessfully attempted to acquire Take-Two in a deal that would have been worth about $2 billion. Earlier this week, Activision announced its intention to axe the Guitar Hero business unit in order to focus on more profitable areas of its operations http://www.computerandvideogames.com/28846...-for-gta-owner/ If this is for real then motherf*cker...... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
foohy Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 They didn't give in to EA; they won't give in to Activision. I would be very surprised if they did. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060334974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubbs51 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 @Take-Two: PLEASE STAY INDEPENDENT!!! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toup Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton4291 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDave Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 As long as Rockstar keep the same amount of creative freedom it doesn't really matter to me who owns T2. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 NOOOO!! I hope Activision don't try a hostile takeover like EA Games!! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaptainkoolkat Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. How do you know this. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandMaster Smith Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. How do you know this. haha because they are a purely money driven company. They care more about making games every 6 months to keep a steady income rather than making video games actual art. It's like, say some musicians work real hard to get heard, they write real deep strong music and put tons of effort into making it big, then all of a sudden Justin Beiber walks in and makes millions off saying 'baby baby baby' over and over. Activision and EA are the companies that put others to shame because they're the some of the biggest names out there and are filthy rich by putting out complete sh*te games. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinatown Wars Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. How do you know this. Have you been living in a cave for the last year? Activision (especially Bobby kotickt) just wants money and will make half assed games. GTA would be half assed, with a sh*tty storyline. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AreXi Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. How do you know this. Not sure if you've noticed but Activision is pretty much like EA, they just care about the money. They release a half-assed games of every series they own every year. Would you like to see GTA 2012? And the next year GTA 2013? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubA_iLL_BrothA Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Whatever, what will change if Take-Two gets bought? Every game Take-Two publishes will become a pile of rubbish. How do you know this. haha because they are a purely money driven company. They care more about making games every 6 months to keep a steady income rather than making video games actual art. It's like, say some musicians work real hard to get heard, they write real deep strong music and put tons of effort into making it big, then all of a sudden Justin Beiber walks in and makes millions off saying 'baby baby baby' over and over. Activision and EA are the companies that put others to shame because they're the some of the biggest names out there and are filthy rich by putting out complete sh*te games. *Applause* That was one of the best examples I then read in a long ass time Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
baptiste Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 If they buy take-two and if they want money and know whats good for them, they will leave Take-two to do their thing. Case in point? Blizzard. Activision have sufficient vision and market analysis to see that if they do buy Take-two, they need to let them do their thing in order to bank a maximum of money. Theres no need to take Cod and apply it to everything Activision does. As a result of this, I honestly couldnt give 2 diarhea sh*ts about Activision buying Take-two. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trip Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I don't think there would be any concern about the Housers and GTA as well as their other popular IPs. With R* acting as the publisher for LA Noire they[Housers] are proving themselves in the publishing game. Unless there are some really tight contracts the Housers would probably just break off and live within the publishing and development of R*. Personality wise they could never give up any control on their empire. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 7 five 11 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 They didn't give in to EA; they won't give in to Activision. I would be very surprised if they did. Exactly, please don't take anything from these rumors, Isn't Activision in a supposedly "bad" financial state at the moment? They are using that excuse to lay off workers right? Well, then it is unlikely they will be able to afford a company such as T2, and it is a much different story now to what is was when EA was going to buy them out, T2 is a much more valuable company now since they released IV and Red dead. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDave Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I don't think there would be any concern about the Housers and GTA as well as their other popular IPs. With R* acting as the publisher for LA Noire they[Housers] are proving themselves in the publishing game. Unless there are some really tight contracts the Housers would probably just break off and live within the publishing and development of R*. Personality wise they could never give up any control on their empire. Anything published by Rockstar is published by Take Two as it is now. R* is a subsidiary of T2 so they aren't doing anything themselves, unfortunately. In an ideal world R*/the Housers would be entirely self- sufficient, but as that isn't the case, and as T2 own the rights to the Grand Theft Auto IP (amongst others), those above the Housers need to be good people and T2 are almost certainly better people than Activision. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash_735 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I don't think there would be any concern about the Housers and GTA as well as their other popular IPs. With R* acting as the publisher for LA Noire they[Housers] are proving themselves in the publishing game. Unless there are some really tight contracts the Housers would probably just break off and live within the publishing and development of R*. Personality wise they could never give up any control on their empire. Anything published by Rockstar is published by Take Two as it is now. R* is a subsidiary of T2 so they aren't doing anything themselves, unfortunately. In an ideal world R*/the Housers would be entirely self- sufficient, but as that isn't the case, and as T2 own the rights to the Grand Theft Auto IP (amongst others), those above the Housers need to be good people and T2 are almost certainly better people than Activision. Take-Two are brilliant, when things are working for them they let the studios do as they wish, case in point, they bloody let 3D Realms waste 11 years on Duke Nukem Forvere before finally doing something! As for others asking what's the problem, Activision is a very extreme money centered company, with Kotick in charge, he buys out studios (Bizzare, Red Octane, etc) and bleeds them for all they are worth, rushing out games, sequels, over priced DLC and under cutting the developers, then, once the franchise these studios work on starts to dip SLIGHTLY, he cans the projects and then CLOSES the Studios! The amount of brilliant developers who have been forced to look for work elsewhere in the past two years because of this man is disgusting. He admits he doesn't care about creativity and that it's all a business game for him to make as much money as possible with the biggest brands whilst pretty much screwing over the average gamer for as much money as possible! Activision is the CANCER of gaming, I don't give a crap about what EA did in the past, they were never this bad! At least EA are decent now, their Studio care and allowing developers to be linked to them rather than bought out, etc, allows more freedom on the Developers side. IF Take-Two were swallowed up by Activision, that would include Rockstar Games and 2K Games, the first thing on the list would be to shut down any excess studios and then rush through any current projects, it's happened in the past, and will happen again, now that they've killed off Guitar Hero and True Crime, they've dusted their hands after milking them dry and are now moving on to the next franchise they can get their hands on! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDave Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Ash, broadly I agree, but EA are as bad as anybody when it comes to making a quick buck. It's probably best if I don't get into too much detail here but they could certainly go blow for blow with Activision. Case in point: BioWare. What a f*cking shambles that place is becoming. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfieWilRus Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Jesus Christ, get the f*ck away activision. You f*cking assholes. I hate them so much for what they did with IW. Please take two don't give in. I don't want to see this GTA: black ops by Rockstar, take two and treyarch Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaWJ Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 no!! stay the f away fomr activision!!!!!! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Mister Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I just bought abunch of take-two stocks. hope they dont f*ck me over Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Activision = my ma's cock. Fact! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I think Take Two is too big to be just bought off by Activision or EA. They aren't some developer like Bioware or Treyarch. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGanteks Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 It ain't gonna happen, don't worry, though if the whole rumors thing lasts a bit longer, GTAF might have material for another April Fools joke! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 This wont happen Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocks-tar Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 After killing True Crime, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Call of Duty, Kotick is back. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060335784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOSEPH X Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Rockstar's contract with T2 expires on Jan 31st 2012, so LA Noire could be T2's last game with Rockstar before they become publishers in their own right. This could explain why Team Bondi hasn't become R* Bondi (or Sydney) - they might want to keep future studios as subsidiaries for legal reasons. A hostile takeover by Activision could end with them still not owning R*, so I think this story will remain a rumour. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060336127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 It ain't gonna happen, don't worry, though if the whole rumors thing lasts a bit longer, GTAF might have material for another April Fools joke! Anyone remember the EA bought GTAForums? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060336208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colanbarry Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Probably want to get there hands on the 2k sports games seeing as they've canned there Hero franchises. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060336576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudoboi Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 since when is EA a bad company, if thr wasnt EA 50% of all the well known games would be gone, and i kinna like their racing and FPS games Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/469445-rumor-activision-wants-to-buy-take-two/#findComment-1060336883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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