CCP for sale?
Ginaz:
There's rumours that the owners of CCP might be looking to sell the company (for close to $1Billion???). I would think they might be looking for a way to recoup their losses of the past few years because their other games, like Dust 514, have kind of tanked and the revenue stream from EVE is drying up due to declining subscriptions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/eve-online-owners-said-to-weigh-game-maker-sale-after-approaches
Setanta:
So basically release Dust and Valkyrie on platforms outside your main universe platform, screw up paid cosmetics and WiS, dump a ton of money into a failed MMO based on a popular universe (WoD) and then wonder why you have a declining user base. Then think about flogging the game off.
FFS - I would have paid for both Dust and Valk if they had been tied to the PC and didn't need VR.
Remind me to unsub the accounts I have training
schild:
Things not worth value and apparently up for sale:
CCP
America's Future
ajax34i:
There's no official comment as far as I can tell, but both Reddit and the General Discussion forums have threads with speculation from players.
The announcement wasn't that they're selling, just that there have been "offers" and it's been "evaluated" at possibly its highest euro amount ever.
To be fair, after Hilmar fucked up and kinda disappeared (not sure if he's still in charge), CCP did have a change of pace and they did put some effort into EVE, at least. Arguably the game is better now than years ago, but even if you don't agree with that assessment, there's evidence that they've put effort into it at least.
I'm not sure whether they're looking to sell or just being spammed with offers. Either way, this announcement will definitely result in an increase in RMT; everyone who's paranoid will try to cash out their accounts before an official announcement will devalue them. So watch out for corp theft and shit, IMO.
Ginaz:
I've also heard rumours that CCP, at least in the past, wasn't a very good place to work if you weren't from Iceland. Sort of an old Bjorn club. :awesome_for_real: I guess that would mean purposefully limiting the talent pool they would draw from.
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