Quinn Angstrom
oh so that's why humble bundle very suddenly went to shit
Rama
Bought by IGN, right
Quinn Angstrom
yeah
Rama
7.8/10 too much charity
Quinn Angstrom
7.2/10, we can't rank it higher than imagine: party babyz
GAY TENNA?
yeah lmao
surαıng
capitalism claims another victim
Villain
It’s SUCH a common thing for a big company to buy up some kind of indie darling only so they can IMMEDIATELY fuck it up
Villain
It drives me crazy
Villain
Like just put your logo on it and give them a bit more support and let them keep doing what they were doing
Rama
Because the goal isn't to actually make use of the indy resources, it's to destroy competition
Rama
Usually
GAY TENNA?
^
Rama
This might be slightly different because I have no idea what fucking business IGN is in anymore
Beans
ah, that explains it
penis bacon
yeah like
penis bacon
EA cannibalizing companies is absolutely not done with "we will combine our two good things together"
penis bacon
in mind
penis bacon
It's much more "if we have full control over you, then we can make sure you can't make good things any more and then we will have the only good things"
penis bacon
like nerdo though I don't know if this is actual capitalist intentional sabotage or if it's actual capitalist dumbass mismanagement because IGN absolutely has nothing direct to do with the industry that Humble Bundle touches
Villain
Now I’m even more mad about it
penis bacon
it'd be like if kotaku bought play-asia
NekoInc, MSPM
Gizmodo Media Group would probably fuck things up less honestly but
Rama
About the only indy buyout that actually kept the core product intact that I can think of is Microsoft buying Minecraft, and that's just because Microsoft recognizes an infinite source of golden eggs when it sees one
Rama
And lord knows they tried to fuck it up
penis bacon
microsoft in general seems to know how to treat indies but, as you said, they deffo learned the hard way
Rama
They just had the brains to keep selling Java edition even if the code is spaghetti
NekoInc, MSPM
Microsoft learned good lessons from the Minecraft buyout, which seem to apply to their pile of acquisitions since.

Then again, they also took a good lesson from Bungie when they let them literally buy their freedom back as a bonus for Halo 3's success
NekoInc, MSPM
Microsoft is kinda weord
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