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[Zanathan]

I must say this is a surprise. A pleasant one though.

Congrats on the deal and hopefully full steam ahead.

[Mystere]

[Project Dark Fox]

Mystere, on 08 September 2014 - 03:52 PM, said:

Well... yeah, they're all piranhas now.

[Roland]

PappySmurf, on 08 September 2014 - 01:27 PM, said:

http://www.piranhagames.com/#COMPANY

I'm being serious here, you may want to remove the reference to Duke Nukem Forever. I don't think anyone in the entire industry considers that a AAA title.

Regarding buying out the rights from IGP, that's great. I'm skeptical that things will necessarily improve, but hope springs eternal.

[TKSax]

Kain Thul, on 08 September 2014 - 03:15 PM, said:

Does this mean the servers might be moved from Montreal to Vancouver?

As someone who lives on the West Coast that would be a welcome change. My ping is ALWAYS, ALWAYS in the 90s in this game.

Uhm... why do you think they moved datacenters a week or so ago.... they were moving out of IGP's paid for space into cheaper space for that was paid for by PGI.

Edited by TKSax, 08 September 2014 - 04:11 PM.

[ebea51]

Wow, it seems to me that this is great news!
Freeing game developers from the constraints and pressures of their publishers can only be a good thing!

MWO and your community engagement has really improved since UI2.0 release and although sometimes it is a bit hard, my faith has been restored in you guys.

Keep the BattleTech/MechWarrior passion going guy and make the MechWarrior game you've always wanted to... and people will come to play it.


Good luck PGI!

Edited by ebea51, 08 September 2014 - 04:16 PM.

[CDLord HHGD]

I'm enthusiastic about what this can mean for the game, community, and PGI. I have seen publishers crush games they had no idea about (Mythic/EA/Warhammer Online) so I am glad to see the bureaucrats tossed to the wayside.

As some have said, it's all on you now to make it right. And you know what? I think you can.

[Hawk819]

good, that means this company is growing. It also means that the Game will grow with it. Meaning, all the costs, productions, and promotions will go down as well. It also means more revenue! The more the company brings in; the better off this game will be.

[Tezcatli]

I'm glad to see this change. I just hope this leads to an improvement in the development cycle of the game. And not what my cynical mind is telling me. "They're gonna sell this thing to some Free to Play hellhole company that will assign 2 guys to content."

[cSand]

This is great news. Anytime you can cut out an entire layer of bureaucracy is great.

This can only mean good things (I hope!) and I think is a solid decision by PGI. Well done.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Well hopeful this change will start us on the path of reverting all the negatives that have plagued this game over the past few years. I am definitely willing to give PGI another chance at making MWO a great game.

That being said, can we start with reverting some of the screwy nerfs like the JJ change. Then can we get on a more reasonable based cost structure so that basic things like Camos, Colors and warhorns don't cost us an arm and a leg. Finally can we get an actually functional Clan Wars that has real scope and depths.

I guess I don't want much do I hehe. Anyway it would be really, really nice to see PGI come back to the forums and actually start listening to us in regards to what we actually want in the game that we pay for.

[Borealous]

Does that mean we can get the Marauder?

[cSand]

Russ Bullock, on 08 September 2014 - 02:23 PM, said:

It means we have no intention of stopping any time soon.

And no IGP never owned us, all those theories are just silly. We have been around for 15 years they formed in 2011 for publishing games. The fact that Infinite Game Publishing ended up being PGI backwards was just one of those things I never even realized until the first consipracy theories

I heard if you play Betty's voice backwards it sings Stairway to heaven lyrics :|

Borealous, on 08 September 2014 - 04:42 PM, said:

Does that mean we can get the Marauder?

I think that's to do with the Harmony Gold company holding the patents to those designs... not IGP

[uebersoldat]

Borealous, on 08 September 2014 - 04:42 PM, said:

Does that mean we can get the Marauder?

No, that design along with the iconic Wahammer among others is owned by Harmony Gold and they aren't letting anyone touch it.

[Hex Pallett]

I was literally clapping my hands when I saw this. It's all on you now PGI, no more excuses!

[Summon3r]

lets hope Paul was employed by IGP, maybe the swings of the nerf bat will lighten a bit around here and maybe some common sense and logic will come to the fore front.... fingers crossed for positive change.

[Kiiyor]

OH GOD YES.

I wish you all the best. May your vision be unrestricted and your interaction with us hopefully now be far more personal.

I, for one, welcome our new old PGI overlords.

[Verbrand]

I look forward to seeing how this move will affect things. Hopefully less red tape/bureaucracy should make things smoother

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Summon3r, on 08 September 2014 - 04:51 PM, said:

lets hope Paul was employed by IGP

Noppppppppeeee

[Nemesiz416]

Not sure if good news