Where are you pulling your second number from? I mean I could say where I think you are pulling it from but I don't want to be rude before giving you a chance to show some kind of factual information upon which you are basing your conjecture.
If a company were to spend $300 million on something just to get rid of it, I'd call that irrational. This has been said every time there's been a acquisition, so there's not much to worry about at this point.
Tell us the budget of EQ and EQ2. We all know it has more resources despite what we now know is what 1/3rd of the players and half the revenue ?
Why would knowing what is budgeted matter to anyone? Going on a lecture circuit of how to manage an MMORPG? Better let EG7 know, because that's exactly why they purchased DPG. They could be missing an important voice.