Sega acquires Total War Developer

[Zatoichi]

OK - sorry if this is already old news, but I've just seen this on pczone.co.uk (sorry, I'm paraphrasing rather than plaguarising, honest!)

"SEGA ACQUIRES TOTAL WAR DEVELOPER"

It basically goes on to say that The Creative Assembly is now part of the Sega empire, and that according to Sega, "The style and genre of The Creative Assembly's games perfectly complements Sega's own long term strategic vision and Sega will empower the team to continue on their existing development path whilst also expanding their resources for the future. "

Oooh. So apart from the new console game, Sega are now the new publisher - so it's so long Activision.

So - how many 'will there still be a 2 patch support deal?' replies/threads do you think this announcement will spawn?

[professorspatula]

Oh joyful news!

With any luck, this will mean we'll soon be able to train extremely fast blue hedgehogs that flatten phalanx formations in a blink of an eye in our Total War games!

I can't wait.

Sega and serious strategic wargames.... hard to see isn't it. Many thought RTW had become more mass-market and watered down, I wonder what'll happen to the series now Sega have a part to play.

[KukriKhan]

On the other hand, making separate products for both plaforms (PC & Console) may well be the answer. Then the PC dev team can concentrate on the PC-oriented gamers, without much concern for attracting masses of new gamers, or trying to appeal to or convert the console-centric crowd.

You fellas should join the conversation in our new Console forum:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=102

[Kraxis]

Interesting... I just hope Sega can deal with it. It would be real nice with plenty of support next time round.

[Puzz3D]

Maybe, but SEGA isn't noted for publishing PC strategy games. Just look at the PC games they currently have available: Spikeout (online fighting), Iron Phoenix (online fighting), The Matrix Online (MMORPG), Shining Tears (RPG).

[Zatoichi]

Maybe, but SEGA isn't noted for publishing PC strategy games. Just look at the PC games they currently have available: Spikeout (online fighting), Iron Phoenix (online fighting), The Matrix Online (MMORPG), Shining Tears (RPG).

Or maybe this is the start of Sega being noted for publishing quality PC strategy titles?

Well, it's a thought. I certainly hope it works out that way, at least.

[RedJack]

Don't know if this is good or bad. Sega has alot of capital to put behind any project, but the downside is they do focus on kid games alot. To bad, RTW was my first taste of TW, and I am probably going to pick up MTW.

[Big_John]

Sega and serious strategic wargames.... hard to see isn't it.

infidel! have you forgotten herzog zwei??

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Damn I don't care and give a **** who owns who . I just want to play and enjoy the TW game series and to be them as perfect as they can be

[Browning]

SEGA bought the developers, yes. But the rights to the title (I mean R:TW) rest with the publisher, Activision. So the news really is, there will be no long term development of R:TW.

[Duke Dick]

No, that is incorrect. Sega now own the rights to TW and the rights to publish it. as i've said in another post, Sega now also have the ability to take away TW from CA and give it someone else.

edit-just because someone publishes a game, does not mean they own the rights....for example-Nintendo Published all Rare games, they did not own the rights to them though, when rare left, they took all their properties with them. This is different though, as CA are now part of Sega, and anything can happen.

[Bob the Insane]

No, that is incorrect. Sega now own the rights to TW and the rights to publish it. as i've said in another post, Sega now also have the ability to take away TW from CA and give it someone else.

edit-just because someone publishes a game, does not mean they own the rights....for example-Nintendo Published all Rare games, they did not own the rights to them though, when rare left, they took all their properties with them. This is different though, as CA are now part of Sega, and anything can happen.

Sounds like the whole Medal of Honor:AA then Medal of Honor:PA, Men of Valour, and Call of Duty farce...

MoD:AA rocked... Then coders left (made CoD, which rocked), orginal development company left (made MoV, whcih was okay in a console converstion kind of way) and left EA with just the Medal of Honor name (which was applied to MoH:PA which was pretty but stucked)...

Just goes to show where the real talent (and company value) is and I hope Sega realise this better than EA...

[Duke Dick]

it happened with Championship Manager and Football Manager, both made by Sports Interactive. SI left and made there own game, but couldn't use the CM title or anything relating to it, even though they created it....

[BeeSting]

Anything is better than Activision.

[Kazuma]

I think it's good that Sega acquired Creative Assembly and the rights. Sega is a veteran in the games industry. So they will probably support CA well.

[frogbeastegg]

Sega's portfolio of created and published games: link. I have confidence (so far as I have confidence in any games company) that they will produce good, polished and supported games. They already produce niche games and oddball games - games they know will not sell in massive quantities.

Monkey Ball is for children?! Gah! Have you never played on the expert stages? That game's difficulty is brutal! It might look all happy and cheerful, but I still hear the monkey death scream in my sleep, years on. It took hours sometimes for me to finish a 30 second stage. Ok, you can argue expert is only expert, but they made up a good half of the game and the medium level was also quite nasty in many places. The child friendly stages made up ... oh, 10 levels out of about 200. [/monkey ball survivor's side story]

[General Carnage]

Sega are one of the largest gaming companies ever, although I am not sure I trust them to swap war dogs for war blue hedgehogs.

[General Carnage]

trust them not to*

[BDC]

Sega are one of the largest gaming companies ever, although I am not sure I trust them to swap war dogs for war blue hedgehogs.

Hehe. Warhogs.

Maybe you can super-speed them to splat the opposition.

[sunsmountain]

Sega is good at creating software, i enjoyed a lot of SEGA games being a Nintendo fan at that time.

They just suck at making hardware. Sega CD anyone ? :)

They lost that battle, but SEGA didnt lose the war. Looks like Nintendo is headed the same way: Play station and Xbox are crunching it like a japanese fortune cookie.

[Zatoichi]

OK - more news over at the .com, this time from a Sega rep:

http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotal...ID=23489.topic

Seems like I've become the org's 'Unofficial Sega News Monkey'...