My gut reaction any time a beloved company/product is bought by a “big” or “old” company, particularly in gaming or media or tech, is “oh no, they sold out” or “uh oh, that’s the beginning of the end.” This type of reaction seems to be the dominant “hot take” in online communities as well. I don’t think this is necessarily a reasonable reflex, but I confess I feel it here, even when the buyer (IGN) is a company I trusted and enjoyed for many years for video game reviews and news (in this case, from about 2002-2012).
I welcome interesting arguments for why my reaction is inappropriate, or for that matter, appropriate. It’s pretty easy to enumerate acquisitions that went well and others that went poorly, but I certainly wouldn’t claim to have sufficient data to make a reasoned prediction about how this will go.
I welcome interesting arguments for why my reaction is inappropriate, or for that matter, appropriate. It’s pretty easy to enumerate acquisitions that went well and others that went poorly, but I certainly wouldn’t claim to have sufficient data to make a reasoned prediction about how this will go.