The Eurogamer Takeover • Eurogamer.net • Eurogamer.net

Armoured_Bear 26 Feb 2018 17:02:37 31,233 posts
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On the positive side, Rauper must be seriously minted now...

[maven] 26 Feb 2018 17:09:57 5,799 posts
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Shrug. I found Oli's article surprisingly open, and we will see what happens.

I just pray that the new redesign means you can @ usernames with square brackets in them... ;_;

Armoured_Bear 26 Feb 2018 17:12:56 31,233 posts
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Oil seems to be a good guy but how many times have we seen the “takeover of indie by large US company, nothing will change” spiel before 6 months later, it does change and not for the better?

Hopefully not.

X201 26 Feb 2018 17:15:59 22,150 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
Oil seems to be a good guy but how many times have we seen the “takeover of indie by large US company, nothing will change” spiel before 6 months later, it does change and not for the better?

Any purchase by Microsoft basically.

Frogofdoom 26 Feb 2018 17:17:52 17,973 posts
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Congrats Rauper, enjoy your new found wealth.

Decks 26 Feb 2018 17:18:23 31,013 posts
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You're not going to stop us calling each other cunts again are you?

Whizzo 26 Feb 2018 17:18:45 44,810 posts
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I lived through a takeover of a British company by a North American one, well I lived through it, I was made redundant about 6 months later and the company closed not too long after that. Not because of the UK part, the Canadian bit sunk it, strangely that was sort of games related in that the original company made some.

Doesn't mean the same thing will happen here as there's little point in buying up Gamer Network if you don't want to keep it going.

Phattso 26 Feb 2018 17:21:15 27,426 posts
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Since most people in here claim never to read the front page anyway - and if they do it's only ironically - I'm not sure there'd be any measurable impact.

Whizzo 26 Feb 2018 17:27:56 44,810 posts
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Portable view is coming back at least!

mal 26 Feb 2018 17:31:22 29,326 posts
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H1ggyLTD wrote:
When this happened to Videogamer, it was a devoid of all quality within about six months.

Good news; we're basically quality free in these forums at least already. I do try to check the front page from time to time, but usually some yoof oriented video scares me off.

Stickman 26 Feb 2018 17:33:02 29,986 posts
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I checked the front page for the first time in years and there was a Kingdom Come review on it. Never again.

Load_2.0 26 Feb 2018 17:42:06 33,582 posts
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This is how it starts.

The promise of portable view to sweeten the takeover.

Soon it's have some lemonade, why don't you take off your jacket? Hey you could be a model! Maybe I should take some pictures.

Fast Forward 6 months, the forum shuts were all on the streets with our crack pipes and "Ten pounds for a Sticky Sunderland Sunrise"

I've seen it a hundred times.

Load_2.0 26 Feb 2018 17:51:35 33,582 posts
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However competitions to win tickets to Comic Con would be sweet!

JamboWayOh 26 Feb 2018 17:53:51 25,236 posts
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I'm not sure I could find another forum with the sweet spot people of mid thirties and above age range talking about games, mixed in with a spot of cuntishness, random weirdos and folk who are generally sound. This forum brought me the sheer joy that is SpaceMonkey, and for that I'm pretty grateful.

neilka 26 Feb 2018 17:54:16 24,021 posts
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It's a nice thought that there must have been a board meeting at some point where an American executive had to give a Powerpoint presentation of representative forum posts and comments.

"Goddamnit Bill, what's a cockwomble?!"

Decks 26 Feb 2018 18:13:44 31,013 posts
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Maybe ReedPOP were the evil forces that were stealing his thoughts.

Edited by Decks at 18:19:15 26-02-2018

Psiloc 26 Feb 2018 18:15:55 6,366 posts
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Just the other day I was thinking how great it would be if Eurogamer was taken over by a big American company.

Frogofdoom 26 Feb 2018 18:20:41 17,973 posts
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Welcome to eg, allow me to be the first to call you a cunt.

Pilot83 26 Feb 2018 18:25:04 121 posts
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I'm pretty sure Stanley knives are covered by the second amendment, so this forum (and its most important thread) should be safe even under US ruling.

Psychotext 26 Feb 2018 18:49:36 70,652 posts
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Tonka 26 Feb 2018 18:50:28 31,979 posts
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ecu wrote:
We had a good run, guys.

Tonka 26 Feb 2018 18:53:21 31,979 posts
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I hope we will get notified in time before they shut down the servers.

Not that I ever met any of you IRL but I will really miss this place. Bet you the end will come when I'm on vacation.

Here's to the crazy ones.
/Goes on a three day bender

AceGrace 26 Feb 2018 18:56:28 3,464 posts
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Beginning of the end.

MrWorf 26 Feb 2018 18:59:03 64,187 posts
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Paging the future. If this place goes the way of the dodo, go here: http://www.reddit.com/r/eurogamer/

Yeah I know, reddit, but it's a reliable site, from which the community could continue whilst we consider other options.

captbirdseye 26 Feb 2018 19:00:06 11,190 posts
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They only bought it for EGX which will surely be rebranded PAX now.

Tonka 26 Feb 2018 19:00:24 31,979 posts
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