Sony sold off the SOE to another company no longer owns EQ

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I wonder if this will affect P99 we don't know how litigious these new IP holders are and even if P99 doesn't break any laws I doubt they can afford a drawn out legal battle.

http://kotaku.com/sony-sells-off-stu...1z1-1683267881

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Sony:

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[maskedmelon]

Happy to see Sony trimming some fat ^^ Always bothered me that SOE was entirely non-representative of its parent company. Sounds like SOE finally managed to squander what was left from the cash cow they had no idea how they made and Sony finally brought out the axe. Good riddance ^^

[kagrobb]

this is prolly so far down on the radar they do not care. Moving forward with developed games is what they will be doing not chasing after 1200 players for trying to get some type of subscription money. Now if they sold EQ to a patent troll law office in Texas I would become worried.

[Sage Truthbearer]

Some quick research shows a very grim situation for Sony Online Entertainment recently.

In 2014, they reported a loss of $60 million.

(To be fair, this is probably not that unusual considering Nintendo posted a $456 million loss the same year.)

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Does this mean we start making the p99 t-shirts?

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SOE's new name? "Daybreak Game Company LLC"

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[khanable]

daybreak game company sounds like something those hong kong fuckers would come up with

WE GAME COMPANY, YOU BUY GAME

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Originally Posted by kagrobb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this is prolly so far down on the radar they do not care. Moving forward with developed games is what they will be doing not chasing after 1200 players for trying to get some type of subscription money. Now if they sold EQ to a patent troll law office in Texas I would become worried.

On another forum they are looking into the company who bought it, THey have zero other gaming companies and are strictly venture capitalists.

Here is the companys portfolio

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[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Sage Truthbearer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some quick research shows a very grim situation for Sony Online Entertainment recently.

In 2014, they reported a loss of $60 million.

(To be fair, this is probably not that unusual considering Nintendo posted a $456 million loss the same year.)

Well you can't string a dozen failed titles along behind one aging hit and expect a good outcome. They couldn't even do FTP right.