Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

[Steve_OS]

Briefly mentioned over the weekend, it appears Take-Two will officially acquire Codemasters, the publisher behind the...

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[Tom0307]

There goes the F1 games then

[jr86]

Re: Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

There goes the F1 games then

You are joking?
The only officially licensed game on the market...why would they drop that?

[bransen]

I'm hoping we don't see any loot boxes and microtransactions now that Take-Two has taken over. 

[krtgolfing]

Re: Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

You are joking?
The only officially licensed game on the market...why would they drop that?

I think he meant turning the game into trash. Hopefully Dirt and F1 don't turn into crap games. Take two bought The Golf Club series and did not do much with that game.

[TMaj1972]

Re: Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

Reasonable minds obviously can differ, but I enjoyed what they did with PGA Tour. It got me much more interested in golf and I have really liked playing it. I am an "above-casual" racer (I own wheels for PS and Xbox and own more racing games than other genres, but I honestly am not anywhere near very good.) I really liked the strides w/F1 2020 and hope TT doesn't interfere. TT does have a history--and pretty much a stated business plan--to gouge folks via microtransactions, and that is a big, big concern. And I may be the only one, but this makes me even more curious about the prospects for Project Cars 4, now that SMS is in the Codies stable. I have been holding out hope that SMS/Codies would admit the travesty (IMHO) of PC3 and recommit to improving and innovating the foundation that was being laid in PC2. I loved so much about that game, and I can't get over the disappointment of what they did to it.

[zello144]

Re: Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

https://www.ft.com/content/62652af5-3b04-433f-8519-4b0b61d9b5a6

Well now it looks like EA has joined in the bidding.


I'd rather Take Two buy them than EA.

[LarsP]

Re: Take-Two Purchasing Codemasters For a Cool $956 Million

Damn, I liked the F1 series, always felt good to have a subgenre where the EA cancer hadn't spread yet. RIP