Phoenix Online studios buying Sierra?

noaheugene20 · August 05, 2006, 05:10:03 PM

I just thought of somthing that may save sierra, you guys at phoenix online studios could buy sierra! I think you guys would do great with sierra.

Jafar · August 05, 2006, 05:12:32 PM

Yeah, but the thing about buying things...you kinda need money.

noaheugene20 · August 05, 2006, 05:14:17 PM

.....Well they could do a bake sale.

TribeHasSpoken · August 05, 2006, 05:25:12 PM

Cedric could do all the cooking

noaheugene20 · August 05, 2006, 05:28:33 PM

Petra Rocks · August 05, 2006, 05:36:30 PM

I suppose if POS goes commercial and is successful it could be a hypothetical possibility. Not any time soon though. $:-\$

noaheugene20 · August 05, 2006, 07:57:52 PM

They could raise money by having a donation button on this site.

TribeHasSpoken · August 05, 2006, 07:59:25 PM

Quote from: noaheugene20 on August 05, 2006, 07:57:52 PM
They could raise money by having a donation button on this site.

No, we couldn't. We can't profit in any way from the use of someone else's intellectual property, even if that IP is being used under license.

noaheugene20 · August 06, 2006, 12:04:27 PM

Well, your right, but how could they make money without breaking there contract? Any Ideas?

Petra Rocks · August 06, 2006, 12:22:12 PM

POS cannot make money on any Seirra IP. If they go commercial and release their own games with their own IP, then nothing is stopping them from making money on those.

In theory, if POS does well with other games it might be able to buy Sierra or at least some of the Seirra trademarks (Kings quet, Space quest etc.) It probably won't happen, certianly not anytime soon, but it is hypothetically possible.

noaheugene20 · August 06, 2006, 01:03:52 PM

Your probably right, just tell them that I think they should buy Sierra or one of it's trademarks, such as king's quest or space quest sometime in the future.

Stones Of Stealth · August 07, 2006, 09:04:03 AM

only is POS had millions, and millions of dollars vivendi and sierra are the godfathers of adventure, and to buy them out of it. that would cost a LOT!!

not to mention that if you bought sierre wats the big deal? your just buying the company not the catalog. the catalog alone is worth millions..millions and millions.

thats about...hmm lets se... 9000000000000 cookies, 45000 muffins, 999000 danishes..

poor cedric

Petra Rocks · August 07, 2006, 09:11:50 AM

Yeah, I think buying Sierra would cost a little more than the revenue of your average bake sale.

But if you just looking at KQ and SQ and maybe a few other old games VU might be willing to let it go for a cheap price by the standards of such things. I really have no idea what the going price for 10-year old game IP is, it would be a lot less that Halo or
Civ to be sure, but still hundreds of thousands at the least I suspect.

Yonkey · August 07, 2006, 02:50:53 PM

Considering VG had a net income of 641 million euros in 2005 and we had 0, I don't see us buying them out anytime soon (not that we would want to either).

Petra Rocks · August 07, 2006, 05:35:27 PM

I don't think anyone is talking about buying VU lock stock and barrel. I was thinking more along the lines of the KQ and SQ trademarks, which can't be the hottest things on the IP market.

Oldbushie · August 07, 2006, 05:57:30 PM

$1 million per game title, perhaps...

$20 million extra for the 20 year warranty.

dew7 · August 07, 2006, 07:22:54 PM

Imagine if it was the reverse that VU wanted to purchase POS and make The Silver Lining game the next official King's Quest -- now that would make things interesting

Yonkey · August 07, 2006, 07:24:57 PM

Definitely more interesting. If VU is listening, you can make that huge cheque payable to Neil Rodrigues.

Petra Rocks · August 07, 2006, 07:27:25 PM

Either one is possible I suppose, but a distant possbility at best I'm afraid. $:-\$

dew7 · August 07, 2006, 07:27:30 PM

Would that be the Neil Rodrigues retirement fund?

News:

Phoenix Online studios buying Sierra?