Sega acquires Total War Developer

**Red Harvest** · 03-09-2005, 21:35

Who knows what will happen? I just did a check of my PC's for the word "sega" in any folders and the only thing it found was internet cache items from today. I can't think of any Sega titles I have. I can't consider that a particularly good sign, but time will tell. I guess it is possible that they want to enter PC strategy games in a big way--hope that is the intent, but I have a hard time seeing it as a high probability. We will just have to wait and see, and it won't be until the next generation (post XPack) that we will have a true read on where this is headed.

**Mayfield The Conqueror** · 03-09-2005, 22:11

Sega used to publish alot of KOEI strat games for the Genesis, but that ended a long time ago. Ahh the days of ROT3K, Liberty or Death, and PTO....

**BDC** · 03-09-2005, 23:24

Hopefully it will be fine.

Now if EA had bought it out, I would have destroyed all CA-related things I own and gone to purify myself with fire. They would have done exactly what they did with Westwood and destroyed everything that is great about it, and replaced it will highly polished mediocracy.

**Turbo** · 03-10-2005, 00:05

Most likely what you will see a direction away from computer games to console games. Most likely Sega believes that there is a console audience for Total War.

**Brighdaasa** · 03-10-2005, 00:22

Well, SEGA Europe have also recently aquired the rights to publish Football Manager 2005, being a ultra realistic football manager game. Sports Interactive (ceators of FM2005, previously Championship Manager) sounds very positive about Sega. SI scheduled for 2 patches for their game, but after discovering some more bugs, Sega Europe allowed them not only to make a 3rd patch, but also to update the players database to reflect the mid-season transfer changes, being over 160,000 changes.

To me that gives good hopes for the patching process of future TW games.

Also it seems that Sega isn't focusing on console games, but are looking to publish a whole array of games, on every platform. They seem very eager to become a major player in the publishing business.

BTW, i read Sega bought CA for about $30 million

edit: spelling

**Khorak** · 03-10-2005, 02:35

Possibly Sega have realised they'll make a shitload more money by creating a publishing empire like EA, and are going to buy into every massive market EA have overlooked.

Football management games are beyond massive in Europe, and Total War is a proven pedigree with no competition barring Imperial Glory.

Plus if they create a more employee friendly atmosphere than EA and take more time creating great games without enormous pressure on developers (as opposed to EAs stale yearly genre update with horrendous pressure on companies to produce the goods), they'll just start leeching talent out of EAs lap. One needn't really bother mentioning the benefits of creating a reputation for quality in public eyes. Hell, Blizzard could shit on a plate, call it Warcraft four and watch it sell millions based on their rep alone.

**HarunTaiwan** · 03-10-2005, 04:07

Oftentimes companies buy companies whose products complement their own lines. So, the fact that SEGA doesn't have many strategy games might be an explanation for buying CA...they want to sell those kind of games, so they buy a company who makes them.