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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[Dr_Ifto]

Thats a lot for one studio. That Insomniac deal looks better every day.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Terrible news.

 

[IFireflyl]

43 more of those and it will be like one Activision Blizzard King.

 

[Godot25]

Thats a lot for one studio. That Insomniac deal looks better every day.

I mean yeah.

But people tend to overlook, that Insomniac didn't have any valuable IP that they owned. That's why they were so "cheap."

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Some additional context via purple forum:

In Poland, there were 366 transactions on the mergers and acquisitions market in 2023, which means an increase of 25 transactions compared to 2022 - Navigator Capital and Fordata reported in a joint report. The largest acquisition transaction in this period was the takeover of Techland by the Chinese company Tencent.

The value of this transaction is estimated at approximately PLN 6.3 billion. The second largest transaction was the takeover of the bookmaker STS Holding by Entain CEE, estimated at PLN 3.9 billion.

PLN 6.3B is roughly $1.6B which would place it in the top 15 of largest videogame company acquistions.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Damn, that's way more than what I expected!

 

[Skifi28]

Other than dying light, what other major IPs does techland own? Seems insanely high.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Oh! They were acquired? Missed the announcement.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Oh! They were acquired? Missed the announcement.

They've acquired them in July of last year.

Tencent Buys Dying Light Developer Techland - IGN

Tencent's latest game developer acquisition is Techland, the studio behind the first Dead Island and the Dying Light series.

www.ign.com

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Yo that's crazy, The Chinese buying anything for mental money.

 

[SJRB]

Sounds outrageously high. All they have is Dying Light, and the sequel wasn't even that good.

 

[Roufianos]

Congrats to them for scamming the Chinese I guess

 

[xrnzaaas]

Other than dying light, what other major IPs does techland own? Seems insanely high.

They've been making various games in the past (including Dead Island from the same genre as Dying Light), but their most famous series is probably Call of Juarez. Wouldn't mind if it made a comeback instead of finding out they're making Dying Light 3.

 

[GonSama]

The "Dying Light" Series sold 30 million units, but 1.6B for 1 studio with 1 relevant Single Player IP seems really high.

 

[R3TRO]

They must be awful at gambling

 

[Nankatsu]

More like Moneyland.

 

[Xtib81]

Way overpriced for this B tier studio.

 

[Spitfire098]

It was before dying light 2 released. May be less valuable now.

 

[winjer]

No way Techland is worth 1.6B.
Seems like the Poles managed to scam the Chinese

 

[Futaleufu]

Other than dying light, what other major IPs does techland own? Seems insanely high.

Call of Juarez. They also used to make racing games like the Xpand Rally series and GTI Racing.

 

[LordBlodgett]

In what world is Techland worth 1.6 billion??? What IP do they have worth that much???

The western studios of Square Enix were sold with the IPs of Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, and Legacy of Kain for only 300 million in literally the same year!

 

[outsida]

WTF

 

[SEGAvangelist]

No way Techland is worth 1.6B.
Seems like the Poles managed to scam the Chinese

I can't help but think some shady CCP stuff is going on here.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Thats a lot for one studio. That Insomniac deal looks better every day.

Well outside of the licensing costs for the Marvel games (seemingly), it does.

Though there's some good in having the flexibility of costs on a per-title basis and the studio itself comparatively inexpensive (though I'm guessing various perf & bonus pays are tied to the market performance of games made with those licenses).

 

[SportsFan581]

I had no idea that Dying Light was this big of a franchise.