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Looks like Take 2 is screwed now. So now what happens to our favorite game property?
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I don't think it will make any difference in terms of Myth II. The company will still be there, just either with a different name, or board of directors, or whatever etc.
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Myrd wrote:Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... iness/home

I don't think it will make any difference in terms of Myth II. The company will still be there, just either with a different name, or board of directors, or whatever etc.
I hope they get a new board of directors, change their name to 'Take Three' and then fire all the previous management while tying the past management's severance pay and any hope of future positive employment references to a non-disclosure agreement that restricts them from saying anything publically about the firings.
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Does this mean they may want to sell Myth and Oni to Bungie or Wideload?
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Lugas wrote:Does this mean they may want to sell Myth and Oni to Bungie or Wideload?
Wheter Take 2 wants to sell or not, I can't think of any reason either the Bungie division of Microsoft, or WideLoad would want to buy Myth from Take2.

MSBungie has xBox priorities and don't really seem to care about cross platform games at all, and WideLoad has one game to it's credit, with one more coming out "soon" - hard to imagine they would have the resources or motivation to purchase the rights back.

Besides, with EITHER group - what would their motivation be? It's hard to imagine any of the existing games being upgraded to the kind of WOW factor money-making game Myth was when it was first released without being built from scratch. Personally I think the Magma/FlyingFlip/MythDev developers have done great work and accomplished more than I would have imagined a non-original-bungie-developer could have done in fixing bugs and adding features to enhance gameplay and keep the game running on newer hardware/OSes but at heart it's an old game and there's got to be lots of architectural/design issues/limitations that would cripple any effort at trying to revamp such an old code base to 2007 computer game standards.

That said, of course I'd love for someone who really cared about the games and who had the time and money to fund full time development of the games to get the rights and release a Myth 4, or a Myth II: 2008 (maybe even hiring some of the magma myth developers) but I'd also love for Scarlett Johansen to fall head over heels in love with me, but I don't think either are likely to happen in the foreseeable future. And for what it's worth I would love to be proven wrong about either.
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Post by Floyd »

i got 100 bucks on the purchase of the myth series!!!! whose with me!
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as far as a purely hypothetical question goes... how much do you thing the myth series is worth these days? What was it's value based on the 20% (was it 20?) stake that take2 had of bungie before the microshit takeover?
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"Scarlett Johansen head over heels"

Yeah!!
Okay I got the models but now I'm too dumb to do anything with 'em
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Mmmmmm Scarlet mmmmm.... what have we ... ah Myth, right...

I wonder if Bungie will be insterested in buying back myth and oni license.
And... damn I lost thread, ah nevermind.... Scarlet.... mmmmm.....
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Scarlet doesn't do anything for me, but it would be interesting if she bought the rights to Myth and gave it to us all as a gift.
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Baak wrote:Scarlet doesn't do anything for me, but it would be interesting if she bought the rights to Myth and gave it to us all as a gift.
Well, once phase one of my plan is complete, this part should be a trifle.

ps. Scarlett doesn't "do anything for you"? Granted she's more than a bit too young for some of us geezers, but good god man, what are you - DEAD?
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Tireces wrote:I wonder if Bungie will be insterested in buying back myth and oni license.
The last thing we need is "Myth: now 100% DirectX".

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If MicroBungie bought back Oni, the first thing they'd probably do is move it to the Havok engine, ensuring that there will never be a Mac version.
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Khadrelt wrote:If MicroBungie bought back Oni, the first thing they'd probably do is move it to the Havok engine, ensuring that there will never be a Mac version.
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Baak wrote:Scarlet doesn't do anything for me, but it would be interesting if she bought the rights to Myth and gave it to us all as a gift.
Or if she played Shiver in the Myth movie? :twisted:
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