I'MS GOING TO STEAL YOUR FRANCHISE

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:06 am

[ Company -> Update ]

Shacknews reports that Bethesda has just recieved $150 million fund from some equity thing so be prepared to have any developers or franchises you like to be eaten up;
ZeniMax Media, parent company of the empire including Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Game Studios, publisher Bethesda Softworks, id software and Arkane Studios, yesterday announced receiving a $150 million investment to fund "additional growth." 
The money will be going on, ZeniMax says, "increased game development, expanded publishing operations" and, perhaps most interestingly, "strategic acquisitions."
The ZeniMax empire has made a number of solid acquisitions over the past several years, including <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/46532">the Fallout property</a> in 2007, <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/game.x ... 1">Doom</a> and <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/game.x ... ">Quake</a> creator id software <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59265">in June 2009</a>, the <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60360">Prey franchise</a> in July 2009 and, most recently, <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/game.x/780#graph1">Arx Fatalis</a> developer <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65102">Arkane Studios</a> in August this year. One can only imagine what'll be next.
The $150 million investment comes from Providence Equity Partners, who previously <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49639">invested $300 million</a> in ZeniMax back in 2007.Spotted @ <a href="http://www.shacknews.com">Shacknews</a>

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:17 am

Welp, time to start building that bunker under the house, I suppose.

gobbleykins · Post by **gobbleykins** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:26 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:the empire

Taco-Hero · Post by **Taco-Hero** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:35 am

This must be stopped.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:08 am

Well what else can they ruin? They've already got Fallout, X-Com is being raped by 2k, and C&C was run into the ground by EA. What else is left?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:24 pm

Planescape Torment - the revenge of the zombie strippers?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:55 pm

You are not going to steal the KILLA franchise!

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:19 pm

Oh nos we's gots to saves calls of's duty's.

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:04 pm

It is survival of the fittest bois.
Don't get me wrong: Bethcocks isn't the fittest, they are the wildfire.

Username · Post by **Username** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:30 pm

WAIT WTF ID SOFTWARE IS OWNED BY BETHESDAS MOTHER COMPANY!?

Why?
Wasn't it going well for ID?

I might kill myself now. My favorite software company out there is owned by one of my least favorite.

What happend.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:26 pm

Zenimax might own id Software but John Carmack still retains all rights over his company. Zenimax is simply the publisher, not a cooperative developer.

Username · Post by **Username** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:33 am

What do you mean all rights?

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:38 am

Like they can't interfere with any of the creative processes with the games. They're not a substudio like with what EA did with Westwood, they're just publishing their games and I think just obtained rights to use the id Tech 5 engine for future games.

The-Barron · Post by **The-Barron** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:48 pm

pretty sure they own ID.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:44 pm

Zenimax is not Bethesda. Zenimax is a publisher, not a developer. As a publisher they don't do anything other than market the games, not tell them [the developers] what, where, when, and how to make them. Zenimax owns developers and publishes their games. Bethesda has nothing to do with id other than they're both owned by Zenimax.

And the name of the company is id Software, not ID. Its id, pronounced ihd, not eye-dee.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:44 am

Why raise the bar and create new IPs when you can buy a piece of paper that gives you ownership of someone else's idea's?

Keep pumping out the good stuff Zenimax!

Ausir · Post by **Ausir** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:41 am

Zenimax is a publisher, not a developer. As a publisher they don't do anything other than market the games, not tell them [the developers] what, where, when, and how to make them.

You don't seem to have much of an idea of how game publishing works.

Username · Post by **Username** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:00 am

Ausir wrote:
Zenimax is a publisher, not a developer. As a publisher they don't do anything other than market the games, not tell them [the developers] what, where, when, and how to make them.
You don't seem to have much of an idea of how game publishing works.

,

Indeed.
Not only can they dictate many things but if the developers refuse to follow suite they can shut down the central studio. This may or may not be blocked by certain term-limited contracts various employes signed with Zenimax before the purchase but after that there's definetly nothing stoping them from completely eradicating the studio and just profiting from the names of various games like EA did to westwood.

Cakester · Post by **Cakester** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:59 am

Ausir wrote:
Zenimax is a publisher, not a developer. As a publisher they don't do anything other than market the games, not tell them [the developers] what, where, when, and how to make them.
You don't seem to have much of an idea of how game publishing works.

hell yeah. fuck that MOFO up ! You the man Ausir! He and his friends are so bitter against people. and me for my autism or some other bully reason

glad the real suit and tie can set this overgrown ape straight.
ty AUsir!

gobbleykins · Post by **gobbleykins** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:25 pm

your vendetta is misguided cakester

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