I haven't seen any mention of the possibility of buying stock in EG7. Their stock price has a nice upward trend. And they didn't even have to pay me to say that. https://www.stockopedia.com/share-prices/enad-global-7-ab-publ-STO:EG7/ https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/OMXSTO-EG7/ The "Highly Speculative" note will likely scare more than a few folks off. Still...It would be a way to profit from gaming quite legally.
What publication? Even if DBG did secretly purchase SSG, which I seriously doubt, it would only get them the LOTRO IP, since the AD&D IP belongs exclusively to WOTC. DDO has long been at risk since WOTC licensed the AD&D 5e IP to Arc for use in Neverwinter and the announced in-development Magic: Legends ARPG. So DDO can't really be a factor in DBG's valuation either way.
It explains much. What sticks out to me is... The layoffs and defections were part of what was needed to get their costs down for the company to be in a sellable state. Timing makes me think Holly left knowing that the company would be sold, and she couldn't keep it in their hands. Also explains her talking about how they were increasing revenue so much. Word is the last sale took 2 years to complete. Not everyone knew, but higher ups knew long before the sale took place. Guessing most of them knew this sale was happening over the past year to 18 months. When you look at their actions based on a goal of keeping costs down, to make the sale, it explains using the terrible hosting despite the downtime and lag problems.
Captain just read the publication that is linked in the original post. Also, I’m just going to follow Skuz’s wisdom from his signature.
It was a press release, not a publication. And it only says that the new owners have the use of the IPs (for as long as their license lasts), not that they now own them. Rather big difference.
https://www.enadglobal7.com/wp-cont...entation-Dec-2020-Acquires-Daybreak-Games.pdf Page 12, DBG acquires Standing Stone Games in 2016.
When I read it was a swedish company, I was just relieved it wasn't Paradox, lol.... What a devious greedy lazy game company, that unfortunately has monopolized the grand strategy genre :-(
I can't find anything to support those numbers. Most say $60-80m for a AAA title with some games (Call of Duty, for example) going as high as $250 million.
I believe the numbers came from Steve Danuser (WoW Creative Lead) and Bill Fisher (longtime dev). They are veritable sources with experience in the field.
interesting article https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/02/everything-we-just-learned-about-daybreak-thanks-to-eg7/
Honestly, this is what worries me. She addressed the expansion launch dates, but neglects the operations as a whole.
To be fair we will just have to see how things go. What they say and what the plans are behind the scene can be quite different. That being said I don't expect Everquest to go anywhere.
Oh I get it! The same way they gutted and killed Sears and KMart! I remember they learned that strip and spit technique from the Finns.