Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive

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Post by Impossible » Wed, May 31, 2017, 2:47 PM UTC

Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
kerbalspaceprogram.com

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Post by xigency » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

Re: Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive

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Post by mysterydip » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:03 PM UTC

xigency wrote: post #2

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

Agreed. The number of times I've read "don't worry, this doesn't change anything" in the press release of an acquisition is too many to count, and the number of times it's been true has been close to zero.

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Post by pawadu » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:05 PM UTC

Whats next? Dwarf Fortress acquired by EA?

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Post by ciaranm » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

xigency wrote: post #2

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

Seems like a chunk of the team left already (and were subsequently hired by Valve[1])

[1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-05-22-valve-hired-the...

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Post by jesseryoung » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

Hopefully the game will be better off under Take-Two (I am not familiar with their past treatment of indy-like games like this)

I have read several stories online about how poorly SQUAD treated the core development team of KSP: https://www.develop-online.net/news/squad-devs-blast-kerbal-...

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Post by tangue » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

I hope they won't fuck up the game. As a side note I didn't suspect there was that much people working on this game.

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Post by chickenfries » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:07 PM UTC

xigency wrote: post #2

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

Must be better than being owned by a marketing firm, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_(company)

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Post by babuskov » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:10 PM UTC

xigency wrote: post #2

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

> I hope everything goes well for the team

IIRC there was a lot of controversy regarding the working conditions and wages. If those stories were true, things could only get better.

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Post by Declanomous » Wed, May 31, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

xigency wrote: post #2

Video game company acquisitions can be brutal. I hope everything goes well for the team now and several years in the future.

I think most of the team actually left after 1.0 was finished. They got sick of working for Squad. I think Squad was never a particularly good place to be a game developer, and they realized they should probably cash out now.