Comments on: Midway acquire Unreal publishing rights

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:42:03 +0000

I don’t think this is “too much of a coincidence”. The root cause of this is that Atari is in a lot of financial pain and will do anything to earn money. That fact leads to “selling everything on Steam” and “selling the old Unreal publishing rights to Epic’s new publisher”, rather than those two being interconnected directly.

By: Yoshiro

Yoshiro — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:43:19 +0000

You don’t always announce deals right away, or negotiations on price and what not might haved “held” it up.

By: Tom Edwards

Tom Edwards — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:47:56 +0000

If that’s true, why did they only just announce it?

By: Yoshiro

Yoshiro — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:29:17 +0000

Bahh, since I can’t edit I’ll double post sorry. What I ment to say is that Epic/Midway would have probably bought up those rights when Epic jumped ship months ago.

By: Yoshiro

Yoshiro — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:27:02 +0000

I told you awhile ago that Epic has the publishing rights and took them with em when they switched to Midway (months ago). This isn’t anything new.

By: Tom Edwards

Tom Edwards — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:27:34 +0000

It seemed a little too coincidental that this should happen now, when GamersFirst was supposed to launch on Steam on the first. I’m sure there were other factors involved too, but I really don’t think Epic weren’t at the very least mildly peeved with the prospect of Valve getting a cut of their profits.