SE looks to buy Eidos

[Olo401]

Gamasutra - Square Enix Makes $117 Million Bid For Eidos

They should fix their own house before they buy a new one, if you ask me..

[The Blackrose]

So SE's going to be peddling out rehashes of Tomb Raider for the next x amount of years on hand helds?

[Brill Weave]

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber. You go and do something like this....




















AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!

[Brill Weave]

Just kidding. Fuck Eidos.

[Epical]

SE has $117 million to spend on something?

[arus2001]

SE has $117 million to spend on something?

They're obviously not spending it on FFXI.

[Khamsin]

Maybe they're going to start publishing their own games?

[Kiarax]

They should fix their own house before they buy a new one, if you ask me..

What's wrong with SE at the moment? The FF DS remakes have all been good, Infinite Undiscovery was fun, the Chocobo Dungeon games are good, Last Remnant is supposed to be great (haven't played it myself, waiting for PC version), both the new KH games look to be good, Dragon Quest remakes are good, Dissidia is awesome and FFXIII's gameplay looks like it's gonna make up for XII. Are you still butthurt about XI?

Edit: Okay they're only publishers for a few of them, but point still stands, there's nothing wrong with SE.

[Charismatic]

What the fuck do you mean make up for XII?

XII is the best one in the series imo

[BRP]

Deus Ex JRPG!

Just kidding. They wouldn't do that.

We will just get a Deus Ex FPS again. (Buy or not)

[Valkrish]

Only looking forward to this if something good comes out of it.

Otherwise can only see an AOL / Time Warner merger of a problem (not that its relevant, but hey failure is still failure)

[Darus Grey]

What's wrong with SE at the moment? The FF DS remakes have all been good, Infinite Undiscovery was fun, the Chocobo Dungeon games are good, Last Remnant is supposed to be great (haven't played it myself, waiting for PC version), both the new KH games look to be good, Dragon Quest remakes are good, Dissidia is awesome and FFXIII's gameplay looks like it's gonna make up for XII. Are you still butthurt about XI?

Edit: Okay they're only publishers for a few of them, but point still stands, there's nothing wrong with SE.

That's a very selective memory, now list every other game SE has made in the past few years, and the shit starts piling up.

And toss IU into that pile well you're there.

[Olo401]

What's wrong with SE at the moment? The FF DS remakes have all been good, Infinite Undiscovery was fun, the Chocobo Dungeon games are good, Last Remnant is supposed to be great (haven't played it myself, waiting for PC version), both the new KH games look to be good, Dragon Quest remakes are good, Dissidia is awesome and FFXIII's gameplay looks like it's gonna make up for XII. Are you still butthurt about XI?

Edit: Okay they're only publishers for a few of them, but point still stands, there's nothing wrong with SE.

Don't mind that.. it's animosity for dealing with SE's bullshit in regards to FFXI for so many years.

[Charismatic]

That's a very selective memory, now list every other game SE has made in the past few years, and the shit starts piling up.

And toss IU into that pile well you're there.

Pretty sure the shit doesn't start piling up really... SE's been doing faily good over the last few years, there might be one or two released that were kinda meh but for the most part they've been pretty good.

[Lordwafik]

A piece of crap buying a piece of crap.

[Kohan]

We'll just have to see if Eidos actually accepts, or if they reject it, just as Tecmo did.

[Pikarya]

At least we all know where our monthly fees are going to.

edit: In b4 Belt and Zipper Raider XIV.

[Chezo]

someone told me SE makes 60% of their money off FFXI

[Xavier]

I'm somewhat surprised to hear that Square is making a move for them, given that they lowered their fiscal forecast last week (or two weeks ago). They're almost entirely reliant on remakes at the moment, as their new properties have by large sucked.

I'm sure they do turn a steady profit off of FFXI, if the subscription base is still sitting around 500,000 accounts (I doubt it, I'm sure its declined), that would still translate into what, $6,500,000 a month in revenue? When your development team only has 3 people, its probably fairly cheap to run. If I'm being overly cynical, I apologize, haven't really had the time to play FFXI over the past few months, but I gather from the mass bannings of well known players that there isn't much love for Square these days.

Which brings me to the bigger point, why the hell would anyone want Eidos? Even if Square was simply swimming in money, what could they possibly gain from that sinking ship?

[Kohan]

I'm somewhat surprised to hear that Square is making a move for them, given that they lowered their fiscal forecast last week (or two weeks ago).

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Which brings me to the bigger point, why the hell would anyone want Eidos? Even if Square was simply swimming in money, what could they possibly gain from that sinking ship?

Eidos may be in need of monetary support, but their properties are valuable, as are a number of their development teams. Tecmo was struggling when SE made their bid, and Taito wasn't exactly doing well when SE bought them up, either.