What if EA buy GGG

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Fictive scenarios are fun to entertain if there's even a slight chance of them happening. You know, like aliens invading and turning us all into food, or vampires actually being sparkly-skinned immortals who only eat vegetables like Kristen Stewart.

These could all conceivably happen.

EA Buying GGG could not.

So this is pointless.

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Malone wrote:

Chris would accept if this is enough money to develop PoE2 with high end 3D engine :p

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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Malone wrote:

Chris would accept if this is enough money to develop PoE2 with high end 3D engine :p

aint POE's engine already top end?

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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universal777 wrote:

Charan, do you live or work next to GGG office and know chris on a serious level? I've been on the forums more and you seem to know a lot of info.

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I'll answer honestly because you asked. I don't want there to be any misconceptions: this is not bragging or big-noting myself. It is what it is.

Chris and I are friends as a result of my interest in PoE. I've visited the office for a few days (it's just across a small sea for me) and hung out with some of the staff. They're all great people, but I guess Chris and I just got along after the first meeting a year before that, which I was super reluctant to do because I didn't want to take advantage of my support level to be special or anything. As it turned out, Chris is just a nice guy. He loves to talk PoE and to hint at new stuff (let's not call it trolling, because he's never malicious about it) and share his toys inasmuch as he can. I think that first lunch we had we killed 7 hours effortlessly.

I reckon he'd be a tough-ass boss but never unfair.

Chris is not a particularly material person. Some devs, you know, they get big, buy Ferraris, throw ridiculous parties with hookers and blow because that's what the movies tell them cool people do. I'm fairly sure Chris and co would still eat at their local restaurants and catch the bus no matter what. He's just that unassuming. It's something Kiwis and Australians share -- we revel in our lack of flair and pomp. This sometimes backfires, because it makes us seem too casual, laid back or unprofessional, but the proof is in the pudding.

Most importantly, he really loves PoE. It's his baby. No one wants to see their baby in the wrong hands.

That's why I'm dead certain this would never happen. Everyone has their price tag, but PoE isn't worth enough to EA to reach Chris'. Unless you offered him enough to buy Wizards of the Coast outright. I'd say that might be his threshold. And even then he'd be ultimately answering to Hasbro, which doesn't sound like much fun.

Ultimately it's not what PoE is worth to others we should care about. It's what it's worth to GGG that matters.