THQ Cuts Deep to Survive
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i've been hoping Gog.com would have some luck with it but nothing yet may need to ask my brother if i can have the discs backNouw said:Good. As long as they have Starcraft, which is probably going to be a very long time, they won't touch Homeworld. I haven't played it anyway so it wouldn't be as shocking as the Warhammer 40K or CoH license. Still, I'm saddened that Relic can't make another one or at least release the older ones digital.80Maxwell08 said:Nothing but why would they? They already have Starcraft. No need to waste resources on an IP that they don't need to do anything with. Especially since with how old Homeworld is it would take a ton of marketing to get it's sales to anything they would want.Nouw said:Go ahead, laugh then80Maxwell08 said:. What's stopping them from creating another Homeworld then?
i know some devs know that they should defend there ips but in the end they have to sell them to even get them out the door or even work on it80Maxwell08 said:
Well that's how IP ownership works though I bet if THQ had the money they could work out a deal to make Homeworld 3 or at least buy the IP rights but I bet if they tried that Activision would charge quite a bit. At least too much for THQ to get in it's current state.Nouw said:Good. As long as they have Starcraft, which is probably going to be a very long time, they won't touch Homeworld. I haven't played it anyway so it wouldn't be as shocking as the Warhammer 40K or CoH license. Still, I'm saddened that Relic can't make another one or at least release the older ones digital.80Maxwell08 said:Nothing but why would they? They already have Starcraft. No need to waste resources on an IP that they don't need to do anything with. Especially since with how old Homeworld is it would take a ton of marketing to get it's sales to anything they would want.Nouw said:Go ahead, laugh then80Maxwell08 said:
Obsidian's only relation to THQ is THQ is publishing the South Park game Obsidian is making. Nothing else. Also Bethesda/Zenimax published New Vegas since they own the Fallout IP.Vault101 said:
I suppose in THQ's current financial situation they should focus on getting Dawn of War 3 out. If Relic don't fuck it up, that could really help. Then they could take back Homeworld!80Maxwell08 said:Well that's how IP ownership works though I bet if THQ had the money they could work out a deal to make Homeworld 3 or at least buy the IP rights but I bet if they tried that Activision would charge quite a bit. At least too much for THQ to get in it's current state.Nouw said:Good. As long as they have Starcraft, which is probably going to be a very long time, they won't touch Homeworld. I haven't played it anyway so it wouldn't be as shocking as the Warhammer 40K or CoH license. Still, I'm saddened that Relic can't make another one or at least release the older ones digital.80Maxwell08 said:Nothing but why would they? They already have Starcraft. No need to waste resources on an IP that they don't need to do anything with. Especially since with how old Homeworld is it would take a ton of marketing to get it's sales to anything they would want.Nouw said:Go ahead, laugh then80Maxwell08 said:
THQ would almost certainly prefer a multiplatform game getting out the door ASAP. Depending on where DoW3 is in development it might get put on hold in favour of putting everything into a Space Marine sequel.Nouw said:
When a publisher is circling the drain they tend to shove devs onto proven sellers. Ask a BIS veteran, for example, what that's like (and is part of the reason there was no BIS Fallout 3).
Darksiders 2 is coming out in 2 months. Also Relic mentioned helping Vigil with Dark Millennium Online which is now a single player game so they still might be helping there. Still I think THQ has a few other multi plat games coming out soon.RhombusHatesYou said:
8 years? All it would take is just removing the front part of the helmets of the Space Ma--I mean. Terran Marines. Then you have the elda--I mean protoss *sorry* and the Tyran-- I mean... What were they called? oh right. Zerg. They could just aswell be the same game for whatever I care. The lore that Starcraft 'had' was Warhammer. They scrapped that. But the races are still so easy to transfer I think we would be talking months rather than years.Baresark said:
I picked up King's Bounty: Armored Princess as part of some package a while back on Steam, but never got around to trying it. Maybe I should. Is it worthwhile?
Yeah...I did a double take when I read that and had to check Wikipedia to reassure myself.deth2munkies said:
I'd like to know where the Escapist got that impression. I don't understand how they can point out two games that Valusoft had nothing to do with, since neither are mentioned in the articles linked.
It's about time a company learned to cut one of the big boys off the payroll, for the most part it's the poor people that suffer.
And THQ, just die already.
And THQ, just die already.
Ya know what? A small part of me kinda wants them to go under, because, IIRC, they started the whole Online Pass nonsense. If that is the case, it's hard to feel sorry for 'em.