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Codemasters in talks to sell to Rockstar parent company Take-Two

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Len Lfc

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So.... this just happened. EA gatecrashing the deal.

https://news.sky.com/story/games-giant-electronic-arts-gatecrashes-725m-codemasters-takeover-12160582

 

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Ah, well. That's one way to shuffle things up, isn't it?

 

You know what? It might be better if EA get Codemasters, actually. Not that Take Two is a bad choice or anything, but EA could probably use that talent to give us that damn Star Wars pod racing game people have been asking for. You know, that and absorbing F1 into their EA Sports catalogue. Hell, they might even revive Burnout properly with the talent at SMS/Codemasters. Either that or they wreck them like they slowly did Criterion Games and every future Dirt, Project Cars and F1 games become live services (whoopee).

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Codemasters gotta think hard now, Take 2 and EA are both (bad microtransactions companies)

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54 minutes ago, Riqitch8 said:

Ah, well. That's one way to shuffle things up, isn't it?

 

You know what? It might be better if EA get Codemasters, actually. Not that Take Two is a bad choice or anything, but EA could probably use that talent to give us that damn Star Wars pod racing game people have been asking for. You know, that and absorbing F1 into their EA Sports catalogue. Hell, they might even revive Burnout properly with the talent at SMS/Codemasters. Either that or they wreck them like they slowly did Criterion Games and every future Dirt, Project Cars and F1 games become live services (whoopee).

Been waiting too long for a Podracing game. At least they brought back Racer, recently.

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Interesting. I mused in an early post in this thread that I figured this move was Take-Two trying to build their sports game coverage, now the publisher with the largest sports games portfolio in this part of the world has come wading in.

 

Codemasters work on the F1 games must be turning heads, cause Dirt 5 was a gigantic flop and Grid 2019 wasn't exactly much better.

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itsallup

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Dan House probably wouldnt allow this. Imagine spending 1 billion on a company that is about to go bankrupt. That is lunacy.

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2 minutes ago, Inttelix said:

Dan House probably wouldnt allow this. Imagine spending 1 billion on a company that is about to go bankrupt. That is lunacy.

Dan Houser wasn't involved in the business side of Take Two. He was a writer not a corporate business executive.

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36 minutes ago, Zello said:

Dan Houser wasn't involved in the business side of Take Two. He was a writer not a corporate business executive.

 

I think he had a right to give out an opinion at least

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3 minutes ago, Inttelix said:

 

I think he had a right to give out an opinion at least

Why would he? When he was at Rockstar he only focused on Rockstar and working on their games. He's not a business executive he's not going to be sitting in boardroom meetings looking at powerpoints and presentations about Take Two's earnings and revenues. Dan Houser is not going to analyze graphs, numbers, spreadsheets, and charts and sh*t. He's not going to look at income statements or balance sheets.

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12 minutes ago, Zello said:

Why would he? When he was at Rockstar he only focused on Rockstar and working on their games. He's not a business executive he's not going to be sitting in boardroom meetings looking at powerpoints and presentations about Take Two's earnings and revenues. Dan Houser is not going to analyze graphs, numbers, spreadsheets, and charts and sh*t. He's not going to look at income statements or balance sheets.

 

Yeah not anymore.

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The person who will be greenlighting this deal is be the same guy who became CEO of Take-Two when it was about to go bankrupt and it was his job to turn it around.

 

That same person is now greenlighting a deal to take over a huge UK studio for a billion dollars.

 

I don't think he'd particularly care what Dan Houser would have to say on the matter tbh, and I doubt Dan would give a flying f*ck either,

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

I don't think he'd particularly care what Dan Houser would have to say on the matter tbh, and I doubt Dan would give a flying f*ck either,

 

Yeah he's gone anyways.

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https://www.operationsports.com/ea-offers-1-2-billion-to-outbid-take-two-for-codemasters/

 

Well now it looks like EA has won. Guess this means EA got pretty scared of Take Two growing it's sports label and probably means that 2k's NFL deal is serious and giving EA a heart attack. Still don't like EA buying them 2K should have gotten them imo.

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I feel like EA and Take-Two are pretty much one and the same these days. They both exploit the hell out of their fanbases they know they can exploit - Fifa, NBA, GTAO, The Sims - and pump out some good PR stuff here and there still like Jedi Fallen Order, their partnership with Hazelight, or stuff like The Outer Worlds or whatever for Take-Two.

 

What I will say is that it's an awful lot of money to spend on a company that doesn't sell many games. Everything they've released in the past few years other than the F1 games (which aren't huge) have been massive flops, anyone remember Onrush for example?

 

The one early positive from this is that these games will now go on EA Play which means they will go on Games Pass Ultimate. I'll definitely dabble in the F1 create a team career mode when ever that happens

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EA secured codemasters for 1.2B 

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3 minutes ago, Jason said:

What I will say is that it's an awful lot of money to spend on a company that doesn't sell many games. Everything they've released in the past few years other than the F1 games (which aren't huge) have been massive flops, anyone remember Onrush for example?

 

Maybe EA and Take Two also wanted to revive operation Flashpoint too I guess?

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what if codemasters refuse both deal :kekw:

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33 minutes ago, Zello said:

Maybe EA and Take Two also wanted to revive operation Flashpoint too I guess?

 

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29 minutes ago, Inttelix said:

Next thing we know Take Two is buying Rockstar Games

 

 

Is this a joke I'm missing or something? lol

 

Take Two already owns Rockstar Games.

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2 minutes ago, GTA3Rockstar said:

 

 

Is this a joke I'm missing or something? lol

 

Take Two already owns Rockstar Games.

See? They already bought em. Now whats next?

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13 minutes ago, Inttelix said:

See? They already bought em. Now whats next?

They created them actually.

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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210113005136/en/Take-Two-Interactive-Software-Inc.-Announces-Lapse-of-Offer-to-Acquire-Codemasters-Group-Holdings-PLC

Codemasters is going to be EA's next victim now

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RIP 

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