Wargaming buys gpg

[Marko Box]

http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/20/warg ... red-games/

Wargaming will take full ownership of Gas Powered Games, bringing into its fold a contingent of veteran developers, including CEO and company founder Chris Taylor. The acquisition will further bolster Wargaming’s push into multiplatform expansion, complementing additional recent Wargaming acquisitions of Chicago-based Day 1 Studios and MMO middleware provider Big World Pty Ltd.

Not sure what to think of it rly, maybe with wargamings stacks of cash they got from wot we can excpect a new PA or supcom. Btw do they now own supcom IP or was it allready sold to someone else?

OH and

Several historical franchises have gone up for grabs in Atari’s bankruptcy auction and have found new homes, as the official notice illustrates.

In the wake of the auction Wargaming purchased Master of Orion and Total Annihilation, while Rebellion Interactive grabbed Moonbase Commander and Battlezone. Stardock bought Star Control.

Battlezone was a rly nice concept as a rts/fps hybrid, too bad no one tried developing it further.

[th3_mach1ne]

I think I would prefer them to not try another SC. For one thing, SC2 was an abomination. For another thing, I have been playing WoT off and on for a few years now, and while I manage to have fun with it I am not impressed with WG. The pace at which they make balance changes and bug fixes is absolutely glacial and they never go all the way with needed changes, even when the community has been screaming for them. And then there is their interpretation of freemium...

But what it comes down to is that, unless their attempt at a new SC just hits it out of the park, fracturing the community is the only lasting thing it would accomplish.

[Plasma_Wolf]

The gpg news was from 14-2-2013, so I thought that it was already known here as well. The TA news is from yesterday.

We shave to wait to see what will happen. If they're going to do something with TA, they're going to have a struggle with PA.
If they're going to do something with SupCom, then I hope that they're at least going to have a look at what ZEP has done.
BUT, they bought GPG, not the SupCom stuff that was on sale because of the THQ auction. I don't know what was sold by THQ and I also don't know who has the rights to anything of SupCom.

[ColonelSheppard]

They would most likely not finish before the end of next year, so there is a good chance that the PA hype already massivly decreased but that PA made more players interessted in RTS so actually i think they could indirectly profit from PA

[BLITZ_Molloy]

Wow! This is good news. This points fairly squarely at them doing a Total Annihilation 2.

I think PA has proven that there is an appetite for more RTS games in the TA/SC style. It's also proven that you don't necessarily need 3 races and a singleplayer campaign.

I'd love to see a game a TA sequel (with broadly similar races like the original), flat maps and whatever else Chris can do within a modest budget. We could have another game with most the sophistication of FAF without necessarily having 4 tech levels, 4 races and other aspects which are unrealistically costly in the current marketplace (not to mention in the marketplace of 2007).

I'm not wild about World of Tanks but as freeware models go it isn't the most unpleasant. I think AoE online kind of proved that the RTS audience isn't mad on that concept though. If it couldn't work for a franchise like that it'd fall flat on its face for something like TA.

[Retnut]

Before the World of Tanks thing, Wargaming and its CEO seemed legitimately interested in making classic, boxed retail game style RTSs. I'm still holding out hope that they'll get Chris Taylor working on a proper sequel to TA and not some Age of Empires Online style thing. I'm excited and hoping Chris can make sure the TA property either gets managed well or not at all. I don't think anybody wants Age of Total Annihilation Online or another SupCom 2.