• CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    They wanted to own existing IP. Not make new stuff. Buy an asset, milk it, and that’ll do. Any words about long-term maybe were lies.

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      1 hour ago

      Yes, but what’s the point of owning the IP if you’re not releasing any new media with it, or even re-releasing the old stuff.

      It’s not like we get a bunch of HD Collections out of it. Hell Activision’s take on Wolfenstein hasn’t even been re-released even though with Id and Activision owned by the same company there should be no issues.

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        51 minutes ago

        Effort vs profitability to rework. Any content immediately releasable as part of gamepass was probably highest value to them.