Notbale vidya franchises:Batman: ArkhamBloodF.E.A.R. (video game seriesHarry Potter video gamesInjusticeLegoSome part of NOLFThe Lord of the RingsMortal KombatScribblenauts
Zaslav finally will have his dream of making and owning nothing!
Is it all games set in middle earth, or just lord of the rings?
>>723974520>one-picture-horror-stories
Again?!
>>723974520That was a shit thumbnail, let me try again.
>>723974569All of them. They have the complete license from the Tolkien estate.
>>723974520>you need to upgrade to Windows 11 to use Batvision™
Wonder if the patent for the nemesis system is also for sale.
>>723974721MOOOOOOOOOODS
>>723974382Microsoft needs to buy them. Just scrap all the Hollywood stuff and go all in on vidya
>>723974382>monopolies eating each otherI want it all shatter into small pieces.
jewish company, fuck em
>>723974382Watch those shit skin saudi's buy it. Just you watch.
>>723976116better the saudis than the israelis
>>723976116Actually I didn't think of that.
>>723974382These guys are always up for sales and mergers, jesus fucking christ
>>723974382Aw fuck does this mean the nemesis system is up for sale?
>>723974382>releases Blood remaster in a terrible state, didn't even bother to fix it after release>releases re-remaster of Blood claiming it's real this time>considering of selling the ip so probably no support after release, and they probably don't care if it's in good state or notlmao
>>723976235I'm not watching your blood-funded golf games, sand nigger.
Come on Microsoft, do it! And put everything on game pass.
>>723976235The company was started by Jews, though.
>>723974382It will never happen but imagine if Disney buys them.
>>723976954I mean I could see Disney trying but that would be an antitrust lawyer's wet dream so the practical considerations outweigh the benefits.
I'll buy emwill they take $3.50?
bros, lets pool together some money and buy it. It'll be like $3.50.> you have to pay woke employees their wagiee and you can't fire union shitoh hell nah, i don't want it anymore. You can't even pay me to take this shit.
>>723977023Disney buying WB means they own both Marvel and DC properties. It will never happen.
>>723974382Okay ill buy it. Let me go check my bank account. Which games should I reboot and which ones should I completely kill off?
>>723974382so nothing of value was lost. Why should anyone care?
>>723974382Only took 3 decades of every project losing them hundreds of millions of dollars before they finally threw in the towel
>>723974382MORE FOR THE MOUSE!MORE FOR THE MOUSE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TErIFY0T9Ts
>>723977247A Harry Potter live service would sell gangbusters.
>>723976954Disney is too poor for that, they'll be the next ones on sale and bought by Apple
>>723977154>Disnet buying fox means they will own both fox and ABC news. It will never happen.You are so fucking stupid it hurts.
>>723974382I love how despite all the good sales from specific games, they managed to make the SAME mistakes midway did and squander ALL profits.
Which Indian or Middle-Eastern country will buy WB?
>>723977154It'd be a lot worse than that. That's just one paradigm. With 20th Century Fox already in their portfolio they would dominate the film industry. It would basically force Paramount to sell up.But that's also why it could never happen. The whole film industry and probably the SAG would pressure the government to block the move on antitrust grounds. Disney would wield too much power over film budgeting and actor salaries if they had that much influence.
>>723976609Isnt the support of Blood up to NightdiveThis would just be for any new games assuming they inherit the contracts
Someone buy FEAR and release the source code
>Disney>The Saudis>EA>rugpull the sale due to backlash/whateverWhich one's it gonna be?
>>723976609>it's not nosedive, septictankdive can do no wrong! it's da big corporation!meds, s꧐ylentdive apologist
>>723977412They throw the towel every 2 weeks
>>723977869B or D
>>723977869EA was already acquired by the Saudis, they're no longer a player.
Genuine question, but is even Disney doing well? They haven't made a return on the FOX acquisition and they're shedding Hulu just to make Disney+ work. >>723977086>>723977151Just do what Japanese companies do and put them in a sensory room with nothing to do. They'll crack and leave on their own.
>>723978146Sorry, I meant Tencent.
>>723974774>>723976536It depends if they sell their assets individually or as package with other shit.
>>723978242That's more like it.
Does anyone on /v/ ever think it'd be cool to pool our money together and buy one of these? I bet we could make a fun game.
>>723978318I'd be surprised if our net worth even approached $500,000.
Which one is most likely to kick James Gunn out?
Please let it be Microsoft. The entertainment from all of the seething Redditors and Twitter browns would be worth it.
Oh my god, the US market is unravelling before our very eyes. This is sad as hell.
These people have some of the most popular IPs in the planet and still managed to lose tons of money. How the fuck.
>>723978483All of them. James Gunn was grifting the hell out of Discovery, no other company would let that slide
Nintendo should buy them honestly
>>723978220Disney has nearly gone bankrupt twice in the last 20 years. None of the Hollywood majors are doing well, and the only reason they still exist is because they keep doing the financial equivalent of a drowning man pushing the head of another drowning man underwater so he can get a few more precious gulps of air
>>723974382>Microsoft buys it>Does nothing with it and no new games are made
Muhammad Bin Salman should buy them
>>723978220god no, they've ruined all their ips and their reputation is in the shitter, this year alone they've had multiple huge failures which will probably eat any profits that the dogshit lilo & stitch live action movie madeall thanks to DEI cancer
>>723978691Shareholders and their goal of constant exponential profit growth
>>723975069Yeah, retard, because that's what theyve done with the other dozen studios they bought in recent years....
It'll definitely have to be a non-entertainment entity that becomes the major investor. Some power that doesn't have a significant presence in the entertainment and film industry.Tencent or the Saudi General Authority seem like the most likely candidates. I doubt Microsoft would (considering they basically divested themselves of any sort of non-video game entertainment offerings just this year - their focus is going to be on cloud and AI tech, which WB can't help them leverage).
>>723977537>Disney poorWhat? How?
>>723979006Owning the WB library would help their AI generator
actually, disney should buy and and make a Marvel vs DC movie.
>>723979068You can't think of it in total value, you have to look at it in terms of quarter-over-quarter growth. Static or declining growth each quarter indicates a company struggling to adapt to the market.
and this is how late-stage capitalism works: one company will end up owning everything
>>723977435It's literally free money, I don't understand how they never did anything with it.
>>723978691the suits have no idea whats good anymore. theyre corporates probably from another branch that never actually made stuff on their own. they have no sensibility what is good, they only want to please investors, without knowing what they do.
Somebody please buy MK and purge NRS from all the troons and deranged boomers who suck at fighting games.
>>723974382Saudi or Chinese will buy it and save batman, mk and lotr from wokeness.
>>723979351Hogwarts Legacy was the best selling game of last year yet the killed all DLC plans since they wanted Live Service bucks. They're fucking masters to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
>>723979617Honestly, how retarded are they? They really hate money don't they?
>>723979524>the saudi buy Batman>Issue #1: Batman beats up Catwoman>Issue #2: Batman beats up Poison Ivy>Issue #3: Batman beats up Harley Quinn
>>723979306two weeks, right?
>>723974382Aww fuck Disney is definitely gonna buy it
>>723974382Can gookmoot buy it?
>>723980191Based, if Issue #4 is him marrying all 3 of them
>>723974382Does that mean the rights for gauntlet are up for grabs? Because id definitely buy those
>>723974382>InjusticeWB owns DC, but does NRS not have any claim on the Injustice video game license?
>>723978891>>723979256Wrong.>>723979371Right.Do you think a someone who looks like this knows what makes a good video game? Let alone what a good one is without someone pointing it out to him?
>>723974535Wonder if this will be a good thing for animation, Mao Mao and Infinity Train might finally be revived, hell, we might even see Batgirl release.
>>723980489Issue #5 is the marriage, in issue #4 "The Kibbutz Joke" he fights the Jewker
>>723980262it has been happening progressively through various decades retard, we obviously won't see a single company owning everything in 20 years from now
>>723980928lefty troons have been saying we're on the verge of capitalist collapse and one corporation having a total monopoly on the entire economy since the 1870s. what actually happens is when companies expand, they eventually get too big to sustain themselves and collapse in spectacular fashion. leading to hundreds of successor companies coming in to pick up the pieces. and then over the years one of them gets bigger than all the others, eventually too big to sustain itself, and then collapses. and the process repeats.
>>723980814Stop i can only get this hard.
>>723974382Na forget those low ter games, the movies they never released is the gold mine.
Whoever gets it, I hope they'll be willing to fucking use some of the old Midway IPs this time.
>>723974382Half a buck!
>>723974382Sony tried to buy Paramount but failed so instead, it is very likely Sony tries to buy Warner Bros
>>723974382Oh no, anyway.
FEAR deserves a reboot that's actually about the FEAR squads kicking in to paranormal shitshows and putting them down like their organization was supposed to be about. Instead it was ALMA'S GAME ALMA'S GLOBAL APOCALYPSE ALMAALMAALMA yeah i get it you like Sadako
>>723982221With what money
>>723981262>they eventually get too big to sustain themselves and collapse in spectacular fashiontwo more weeks
>>723974382why are they like this?
>>723977086I can do £3.50, I win
>>723974774that patent is no longer valid because warneR bros didnt use it for 10+ years
I wanna see DC get sold to marvel. I wanna see the clusterfuck if they try and merge universes cause some exec says to do it.
Whats even the point of buying these video game properties as it would take nearly a decade to make a new Batman Arkham game.
>>723983015It doesn't have to. Outsource a few Midway arcade titles to someone, churn out an A or AA game in the meantime.
Please get NetherRealm Studios purchased by a company that won't make them develop Mortal Kombat games like they were gacha shit
>>723975069>This festering swamp sounds vastly preferably to a bog
>>723974382>F.E.A.R. (video game seriesAbout time someone buy it and make it into a proper supernatural vs soldiers vidya series
>>723974382Imagine having all those money-printing franchises and fucking it up
>>723983428You'd just get SCP but gayer in the current climate
>>723974382Inb4 Disney buys them and the megacorporation becomes a giga corporation
>>723983686Theres no fucking way they'd get away with that without anti-trust suits.I hope.
>>723983686I feel like they would get prevented from doing it if they tried because they would basically become the biggest monopoly ever
>>723974382Most of those will probably follow their new IP holder but I could see epic going for Lego
Also, Disney probably can't afford it right now.
>>723983902>>723983803>America>giving a single flying fuck about anti-trusts Oh my sweet, summer, naive children
>>723976116>>723976235>saudis buy mortal kombat>include two shitskin with hoods for faces who are shoved as the new scorpian and subzero>israel buys mortal kombat>add one random white woman from america and have her previously work with the IDF to protect 'her country from terrorists'
>>723983651SCP is more like about collecting weird objects in a yard sale and prevent burglars from taking itF.E.A.R would lean more on the termination side of things like the first 1But yeah there's no western company that could bake it without making it gay
>>723983803>>723983902Hi, I'm CrunchyRoll, have we met? Oh, and Disney is already a gigamonopoly, in case you haven't noticed.
>>723984154Thats a little different from a company that would basically be the only one making movies and TV shows.
>>723977869Amazon Game Studios
>>723974382Someone explain tbis. Why do they wanna be bought out instead course correct and making more value for themselves?
DUMBESTNIGGERMONKEYS
IMAGINE OWNING BUGS BUNNY AND BATMAN AND STILL SOMEHOW GOING BANKRUPT
>>723984226>>723984226>he thinks it has to be a TRUE monopoly in order to be classified as a monopoly and therefore, subject to anti-trust suits
>another step towards monopoly
>>723982730>I don't know what recessions ot insolvency are
>US nationalizes it like they did Intel
>>723984335Usually to get out of having massive debt.
>>723974382Disney should buy them so we can have Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings in Kingdom Hearts 5.
>>723984335During the Discovery deal, Discovery put a lot of their debt onto the WB side of the company to get rid of it for their investors. Now WB would have to not only turn the company around but climb out of a giant debt that a good chunk of isn't even theirs. It's easier to sell to another company and keep offloading the debt to other people than it would be to do that.
>>723984513US will only nationalize it if China is somehow involved.
>>723984582Gee, I wonder who could be behind this post
>>723984513>IT'S OVER, BATMAN, YOU CAN'T GET TO ME WITHOUT RISKING HARMING THESE INNOCENT ILLEGAL ALIENS>Sorry Joker, I already did the background checks. The only place they're going, is El Salvador
>>723982221Considering Warner Bros Japan is involved in a lot of anime, it makes sense for Sony to buy Warner Bros as a wholehttps://www.youtube.com/@wbj_anime/
>>723984634>passing the buck along this hardHoly fuck, can we kill corporatism already
>>723984513>>723984649Intel was not nationalized when the US government only has a 10% equity stake with no voting rights. In comparison, when Obama nationalized GM, the US government had a 60.7% stake with voting rights and Obama personally chose the new GM CEO and the new executive board.
>>723983902>>723983803LMAAAAAO you don't honestly believe this do you? if you have enough money you can simply take a giant shit on the law and even twist it to suit your own needs. laws aren't for gigacorps to follow, they're for them to make.see: disney manipulating copyright laws so mickey never falls out of their control
Why do people just seem to accept the corporate hellscape we live in now? Were nothing is sacred and everything down to freedom of expression is controlled by some CEO pedophiles and jews who would sell you up the river for a quick buck!
>>723985207>see: disney manipulating copyright laws so mickey never falls out of their controlThat ran out last year.
>>723984107Habibi, don't you like playing as Cristiano Ronaldo?
>>723985226What would you propose we do? Most live relatively comfortable lives and are not going to throw away their status quo for murder unless shit gets really dire.
>>723974382Who is the most likely to buy'em, if its sony what are the chnaces of them fixing their fighting game division?
>>723985326and the fact they got away with it as long as they did no longer matters because it ran out "eventually"? come on man
>>723974382>will be either by Apple/Tencent/Disney/Microsoft/Saudis and they will throw into trash 90 % of franchises who are not Batman/Harry Potter/Mortal Kombat or they will sell the company piece by piece it doesn't matter who buy them, we are stil going to get fucked and get nothing good
>>723985606furfags will keep zootopia afloatthey are willing to drop thousands on a fur head they will drop thousands to ticket empty seats
>>723985226and what do you want us to do ? you can't change the system with bulshit voting or protests like a retard in the streets, you need a revolution
>no we can't make new Tom & Jerry cartoons because we sent trillions of dollars we made selling pozzed goyslop for redditors to pissrael, please bail us out
>>723986223didjnt they remove almost all the slapstick from nu tom and nu jerry like 15 years ago?
>>723974382Again? What a slut
>>723985226The only time I have seen a boycott work in my lifetime was people cancelling their disney subscriptions for Kimmel of all people
>>723980191Tbf cat woman had it coming for a long time.
>>723982712they got money, they actually had the higher bid for paramount and they offered something like 40bil for fox as well i'm sure they will be thinking about wb very seriously since they can use literally everything wb has to offer, movies/music/games/anime, would actually be insane value for them
>>723974382Screw the games, what will happen to the Looney Tunes?
>>723987016disney will purchasebugs will no longer cross dressshe is trans
>>723986506i don't see how this is relevant, if anything it only makes it worse, how laws are able to be bent for the sake of shit "no one gives a damn about"
just think how many more scooby doo cross over sloppa we will get if disney buys them
>>723987275Zoinks! It's Thanos!
>>723987407hey micky is like one of your mouseketools a sandwich?
>>723974382I feel like they were just bought 5 years ago
>>723984513Intel has SOME value, unlike WB.
>>723987275Im so scared man, i never thought it would en like this for warner
>>723974382Guys, let's join forces and buy them
>>723987776nah but scoobs thing for the last 20 years has been >THE GANG MEETS : JOHN CENA!type shit outside of mystery inc
>>723987765I just want their part of NOLF and piece it together bit by bit from the other 3 or 4 companies that have it.
>>723987701you didnt go see all the capeshit you only wanted batmanthis is the future you chose
>>723974382RIP my free hbo max subscription, probably.
>>723988035Well maybe they should have made better capeshit
>>723988784get ready for batman joining the avengers to save the failing MCU
>>723974382>The Lord of the RingsIsn't this one owned by Embracer?
how will this affect muh comics?
>>723974382multiversus was that bad huh
>>723983803Just give Trump a hundred mil and it sails through
>>723989593Comics are absolutely fucked bro.
>>723974382I'll buy Blood from them for $200
>>723989593not at all unless Disney buys WB, so long as the division keeps being profitable(no matter how slim), the higher-ups will probably just completely ignore it since it's amounted limited money for a company as big is WB.There is zero chance of DC being cut up piecemeal and not sold altogether
>>723989593dc characters all get humiliation ritualed to marvel characters
>>723989593Probably won't.But I would expect whoever buys the movie/film rights will probably boot out Gunn and just stick to making standalone movies for Superman and Batman.
>>723974382NINTENDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>723976116>>723976235Better the saudis than the mutts
>>723975069>Microsoft needs to buy themWhat part of Phil Spencer's era of Xbox is dead do you not understand, Xbot?
>>723976726>>723978576>>723978832See>>723991237And shut up
>>723975069Microsoft owns like 50% of gaming's IPs right now and they're doing fuck all with most of them. Microsoft needs to make some fucking games and stop buying IPs.
>>723991528Xbox is dead, will you shut the fuck up. Their plan is to gut everything and focus on what makes money, They're not putting anymore money into gaming again, Phil Spencer is retiring soon, and Xbox hardware is being gutted. Would you get over the Xbox already, this is becoming embarrassing.
>>723991768Calm down, okay?
>>723974382America is officially over.China will own your culture
>>723992168
>>723992168It's either Chinks or Muslimes buying these rotting corpses
Whoever buys it, please make a reasonable port/remaster of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
>>723991768Their "plan" is to focus on AI magically saving them
>>723992680Saving who, Microsoft or Xbox?
>>723987968NOLF is mid. The only reason people pretend to care is because its abandonware.
>>723992168>China will own your cultureI don't think it's legal to own blacks in china
>>723985510This. As long as people have their bread and circuses they wont do shit. Then again the breads getting more expensive by the minute and the circuses are getting stale. I suppose we will see what happens in the coming years.
>>723974382You guys wanna go 1/612340862904623906'479863Erdth on Warner Bros?
>>723987765That would be in-fucking-credible. A bunch of nerdy dudes that actually love video games with a passion buying one of the biggest entertainment industries in america? We would usher in a whole new era of gaming that normies couldnt even dream of.
>>723996306yeah sure a bunch of idea guys with no woke backing are going to make anything in a timely manneryou know you actually have to pay for the company projects after buying the company right
What if we boughted, bros?
>>723996775Enjoy your newly acquired 35 billion dollar debt.
>>723984121My idea for a F.E.A.R. reboot:>Armacham is both a powerful corporation, but is also a subsidiary of a much larger Japanese zaibatsu>Alma is practically the same as in the OG series, but now she has more ways to screw over people>Pointman (and Paxton) is now half-Japanese because Harlan Wayde artificially impregnated her with the seed of a Japanese psychic of similar capabilities as her, but went brain-dead in an accident>Game works like the 1st game, but there is now more ways for Pointman to fight in melee (at one point you can even pick up ninja kunais as throw/melee weapons and a katana for melee), which ends up being like the best of The Matrix and every John Woo movie>Also, you later get to equip an armored exoskeleton that doubles the amount of weapons you can have and will allow you to reliably melee similar powerful foes>The paranormal stuff is out of whack as Alma forcefully assimilates the souls of dead people and converts them into more onryo-like beings you have exorcise with your fists, not to mention undead Replica clones and undead abominations that wouldn't be out of place among the scarier Japanese yokai (including a literal human centipede monster made of corpses)>Replica soldiers now have more weapon types, more gear and have a larger roster (including Replica sub-commanders, exo-skeleton soldiers that are between the heavies and mech suits, snipers and more), as well they will do everything to flank you, pin you and then pelt you with grenades>Multiple endings included, including one where you defeat Alma, erase her memories and transfer her into a clone body of a girl and escape, with the last shot being kid Alma being adopted by Pointman and going to school after he sends her off...and then calls from the zaibatsu to look for her as they want to continue Project Origin but on a larger scale
>>723989593They are fucked already for a long time.>>723987776>To be fair now Disney is not big on crossovers. In fact its one of their trademark rules to ensure a brand remains strong to discourage crossovers. Even in things like House of Mouse or Kingdom Hearts Disney characters from movies aren't allowed to interact with other characters from movies.>>And funny enough Nintendo is imitating Disney's rule with Mario Kart World remember what the producer said, that Mario's brand is so powerful that they don't need crossover characters like Link from Legend of Zelda or Isabelle from Animal Crossing. Its amazing how Nintendo is following the same formula and it will bite them in the ass eventually.That's retarded as fuck.
>>723982956Shadow of War was 2017.DLCs and definitive edition in 2018, which count as separate "releases" legally.
>>723977869Disney struggles to keep afloat, uf anything they will sell Marvel and Star Wars soon
>>724001139Disney is too big to fail.
>>723992168China needs to own their own first. Taiwan still #1
>LoTR game by Miyazaki never ever
>>724003209>lotr won't be tainted by basedls garbageGood.
>>724002128Rome is too big to fail.
