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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
If you had read what I posted in this thread, you'd already know the answers. 
We have been performing great, we have been growing exponentially the last several years and we are extremely profitable. If you were Com2uS, would you go in and change a thing? No, of course not. What you would do is keep the winning formula and help with marketing, localization and mobile development, where they have a much better technical knowledge and resources than we do. And that's it |
I read it, I just have a hard time believing it's that simple. If that's all they wanted to do, why not just propose a co-operative effort instead of buying you out? I've never seen a business arrangement where a new owner just minds their own business and leaves a new acquisition alone.
In their place, with no emotional attachment to the franchise or existing community, I'd absolutely make changes. I'd look at what is bringing in the money, which is Perfect Team, and ensure that development on that is emphasized 100% while doing the bare minimum on the base game. I'd especially be looking that direction if my company had already worked quite a lot with similar game models to PT. Then I'd make every effort to create something similar to Perfect Team in FHM, assuming I'd keep FHM at all considering it probably isn't a major earner.
And if my experience was in mobile game development I'd push a stripped down version of OOTP which could be played on a mobile device and prioritize that, too, in the interests of getting PT in front of as many players as I could. They might make more money off the OOTP name in 2 years than you made in 20, but it won't be the same game.
I'm not some MBA business expert or professional investigator, mind. I'm just a random internet guy voicing some skepticism, and my opinion doesn't make any difference in the end. Skeptics or not, we're all going to take your word for it and see what OOTP22 looks like. Time will tell. You guys have certainly earned your payout regardless, and I think I speak for everyone when I wish you the best.