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Hoo boy, whats next?
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02-23-2005, 05:32 PM | #2 |
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EDIOS will be out of business in 2 years.
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02-23-2005, 05:52 PM | #3 | |
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With his capital, I imagine that Eidos will soon be producing big hitting and popular titles and will soon be operating with a profit (2 years max). |
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02-23-2005, 06:58 PM | #4 |
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Chamionship Manager series is under Edios right? I wonder what will happen to that game after this takeover.
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02-23-2005, 11:36 PM | #5 | |
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With his capital, I imagine that Eidos will soon be producing big hitting and popular titles and will soon be operating with a profit (2 years max). [/QUOTE]Murdoch knows nothing about the gaming arena. He's been shopping around to buy a gaming company for a while now, and edios is it. Mark my words, Edios will be history within 2 years. Murdoch will force Edios to make 'shovelware' like "law and order" TV games.. *groans* Anytime suits are the ones with the ideas, games suck. |
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02-24-2005, 12:11 AM | #6 |
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He doesn't need to know the industry inside out, but he can afford to pay people who do [img]smile.gif[/img]
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02-24-2005, 06:08 AM | #7 | |
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02-24-2005, 07:00 AM | #8 |
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I don't see why you think this is such a disaster? I mean, a man who is the owner of The Sun, The times, Harper Collins, Sky Net and Fox can't really botch this much? Originally, Rupert had his eye for either Activision, for 3 billion, or EA for 19 billion. Buying EIDOS kinda surprised me, but I think he saw room for improvement there. And with the amount of cash that guy has I just can't see the company going down in the near future. And EIDOS wasn't really a shining company recent days, and I think this new influx of cash and projects might do good not only for the company, but for the whole games market by increasing the competition.
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02-24-2005, 07:02 AM | #9 |
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I'd say all he cares about is that his name is on the product, he leaves the rest to the specialists. Eidos might get an enormous boost out of this. I've seen it before in other types of branches, a moneytycoon steps in, puts the right people in the right place, and things start rolling from there.
The fact that this man has no knowledge about the gaming industry means absolutely nothing. What he does know however, is turning things into profit, which is the bottomline in any type of business. [ 02-24-2005, 07:03 AM: Message edited by: johnny ]
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