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The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The trouble is the upfront capital though, but at the same time another publisher would surely bite at the thought of getting a talented studio's staff in one go?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

hello welcome to my new venture capital firm: we specialise in funding game studios where 90% of the staff got fired in an acquisition turned shutdown

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If only someone had money from their company being bought by Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's absolutely noncompetes baked into that sale. Noncompetes might not be legal, or applicable, torards employees anymore, but they sure as shit are still legal and binding as a condition for a business's sale.