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No its not a joke, its not a shot at the company!
It looks like Capcom is truly facing dark times, it has recently come out that they have abandoned there stock take over defense plan from 2008 and is now basically up for sale more or less. If a company that is capable of purchasing 50% or more of their stock, they will essentially own the company.
Lets face it many of us had to have seen this one coming one day, with all the negative things the company has done, from really bad DLC practices, destroying their franchises to make them more like CoD, to completely giving up on one franchise many of their fans have been begging to have a new game for that they had canceled at least 4 or more titles in development in the past. Finally to even just constant re-releases of particular FGs that many fans have complained about for years. I suppose its finally coming down to the wire for them.
Though some you here will praise this or call BS, or just plain not care, it is honestly a sad day. Capcom pretty much invented the competitive FGC , with SF alone paving the way for so many of the great FGs we have today, including a game series very near and dear to us here.
What does it all mean though? Well likely a 3rd party company will buy them out and take over their IPs and they will continue to develop with them or kill them off altogether. So, essentially say one of the big three (MS, Sony, Nintendo), will be able to purchase them and gain damn near full exclusivity rights to all their IPs or the company could even say they are done and file bankruptcy and auction off their IPs to the highest bidder, sort of what THQ did back when they shutdown.
If anyone ahs any thoughts feel free to share them and discuss, but please folks lets keep it clean, this is a company that did shape the world gaming as a whole for many generations!
-EIDT- I added an additional article by Game Informaer that explains a little more in detail what this could entail for the company!!!
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/17/5817094/capcom-abandons-its-stock-takeover-defense-plan-now-open-to-buyout
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/06/17/capcom-shareholders-signal-potential-buyout-interest-.aspx
It looks like Capcom is truly facing dark times, it has recently come out that they have abandoned there stock take over defense plan from 2008 and is now basically up for sale more or less. If a company that is capable of purchasing 50% or more of their stock, they will essentially own the company.
Lets face it many of us had to have seen this one coming one day, with all the negative things the company has done, from really bad DLC practices, destroying their franchises to make them more like CoD, to completely giving up on one franchise many of their fans have been begging to have a new game for that they had canceled at least 4 or more titles in development in the past. Finally to even just constant re-releases of particular FGs that many fans have complained about for years. I suppose its finally coming down to the wire for them.
Though some you here will praise this or call BS, or just plain not care, it is honestly a sad day. Capcom pretty much invented the competitive FGC , with SF alone paving the way for so many of the great FGs we have today, including a game series very near and dear to us here.
What does it all mean though? Well likely a 3rd party company will buy them out and take over their IPs and they will continue to develop with them or kill them off altogether. So, essentially say one of the big three (MS, Sony, Nintendo), will be able to purchase them and gain damn near full exclusivity rights to all their IPs or the company could even say they are done and file bankruptcy and auction off their IPs to the highest bidder, sort of what THQ did back when they shutdown.
If anyone ahs any thoughts feel free to share them and discuss, but please folks lets keep it clean, this is a company that did shape the world gaming as a whole for many generations!
-EIDT- I added an additional article by Game Informaer that explains a little more in detail what this could entail for the company!!!
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/06/17/capcom-shareholders-signal-potential-buyout-interest-.aspx
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