25-11-2004 00:54									#1
	Atari has sold the rights to the Civilization franchise! Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Holy crap, I hope this won't have any major impact on the making of cIV! Today, I read on a game news site that Atari because of financial problems has sold the rights tof the civilization franchise! I checked around, and found their financial report, here.

This is what stands there:

quote: After the close of the first half on September 30, 2004, the Group sold the rights to its Civilization franchise for US$ 22.3 million, generating a one-time gain of € 15.5 million.

I am curious what will happen now...? I guess this won't harm the development of cIV too much?

	25-11-2004 01:21									#2
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Hmmmmmmmmmm

I think we need to hear from the Firaxis guys

	25-11-2004 01:43									#3
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Grr. I like Atari. It has nostalgic value from my family's computer when I was a kid. I thought Atari and Civ were a good match. I read elsewhere the other day about Firaxis wanting to hire some new people. Considering what positions they needed filled, it sounded positive, but maybe it isn't. I guess it would be unrelated to the Atari thing. Could this cause the exact same problems that Civ3 had?

	25-11-2004 02:03									#4
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The Atari of these days is not the same Atari of everyone's youth. Infogrames NA changed their name to exude just that alure, and it seems to have worked.

	25-11-2004 04:25									#5
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Can't be worse for the game than Atari.

	25-11-2004 04:55									#6
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As people are saying, it's likely that Firaxis itself is the buyer. But I guess we should discuss this in the thread in the Off Topic forum.

	25-11-2004 05:04									#7
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So Firaxis bought the rights to Civ? This means there will be a Civ4 but likely it will be very different from Civ3.

	25-11-2004 05:15									#8
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You almost make it sound like my word is the confirmation, which of course would be ludicrous.

	25-11-2004 11:46									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Brent But I guess we should discuss this in the thread in the Off Topic forum.

Why? I think the topic match very wel with Civilization Games General.

	25-11-2004 16:44									#10
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Yes I do as well Graphmos, Im wondering who bought them number 1, and Im wondering if Nikolai has the link number 2.

	25-11-2004 17:02									#11
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I remember BullFrog (Syndicate Wars, Populous, Dungeon Keeper...), this so prodigious company, it was sold to Electronic Arts. After being a mini-Blizzard-like success with each game great, genuine and fresh... it never produced anything from there on.

The question is WHO bought franchise... it changes everything.

	25-11-2004 17:49									#12
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I agree this is a better place for it, but I just thought the Off Topic thread should be used because there's more activity over there.

	25-11-2004 20:46									#13
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There's so much activity there that it will be on page 2 in two minutes and on page 4 in 4 minutes

	25-11-2004 21:39									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Trifna There's so much activity there that it will be on page 2 in two minutes and on page 4 in 4 minutes

This is BIG news

has anyone actually read the report?

I dont have time right now but Im REALLY curious who bought the rights if that indeed has been revealed.......

If not I guess Ill have to read up later tonight

	25-11-2004 21:54									#15
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quote: Originally posted by conmcb25 Yes I do as well Graphmos, Im wondering who bought them number 1, and Im wondering if Nikolai has the link number 2.

I only has this one link. I haven't read the thread in OT though, I rarely visit OT and I honestly didn't think I could find civ related things THERE...!

	25-11-2004 21:55									#16
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quote: Originally posted by conmcb25 This is BIG news has anyone actually read the report? I dont have time right now but Im REALLY curious who bought the rights if that indeed has been revealed....... If not I guess Ill have to read up later tonight

If you mean the report I linked to, I did a search on "Civilization" and got only this one result.

	25-11-2004 22:07									#17
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Dan always puts up Civ 4 news in the OT forum (don't ask me why), so I expected that he would like all news there...

Plus it gets more activity.

	25-11-2004 22:08									#18
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But no +1's. Being an Emperor, that isn't one of your biggest problems though...

	25-11-2004 22:09									#19
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The link to the article can be found here:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/1...ws_6113971.html

Cheers.

	25-11-2004 22:13									#20
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quote: Originally posted by asleepathewheel Can't be worse for the game than Atari.

Vivendi Universal.

Hey, a pessimist is perpetually positively surprised.

	25-11-2004 22:13									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Nikolai But no +1's. Being an Emperor, that isn't one of your biggest problems though...

I don't know what your guys' obsession is with post counts... the AC forum is pretty much pure spam. I'm already up to about 9000 posts anyways...

	25-11-2004 22:20									#22
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I'm not obsessed, just look at my joining date versus my post count... I think the purpose for the post count should be to count how many posts I've made, and then the OTF's practice is pretty useless and silly.

	25-11-2004 22:39									#23
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Dan puts Civ news in OT so the OT morons are vaguely aware that this is a Civ site.

	25-11-2004 23:07									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Kassiopeia Vivendi Universal. Hey, a pessimist is perpetually positively surprised.

I say Electronic Arts then. Welcome the new Civ with more graphics, sound and super-duper-new and more new units and more new units and more action!!

	25-11-2004 23:14									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Trifna I say Electronic Arts then. Welcome the new Civ with more graphics, sound and super-duper-new and more new units and more new units and more action!!

And not to forget: the EATrax feature!

	26-11-2004 01:50									#26
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quote: I say Electronic Arts then. Welcome the new Civ with more graphics, sound and super-duper-new and more new units and more new units and more action!!

yay ea!

	26-11-2004 03:02									#27
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I'm willing to bet Bill Gates bought it

	26-11-2004 03:02									#28
	PARADOX has bought Civ franchise rights! Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

Let me inform you. The franchise has been bought by PARADOX, the maker of Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Victoria and which recently bought "Diplomacy" and "Squad Leader" rights too.

	26-11-2004 03:03									#29
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Oh....... well..... Bill Gates will buy Paradox then.



Well anyway, sounds like Civ is in better hands.

	26-11-2004 03:09									#30
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quote: Originally posted by icett Let me inform you. The franchise has been bought by PARADOX, the maker of Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Victoria and which recently bought "Diplomacy" and "Squad Leader" rights too.

What makes you think that?

There's no way in hell Paradox has enough money to buy Civ... besides, they're not even a publisher, they're a developer...

Kids these days.