One of the surprise news bits out of July was the announcement that EG7-owned Daybreak – which had just been scrambling for cash, to the point of selling off the PlanetSide IP and shunting PlanetSide 2 off to a side-studio – had bought out Palia studio Singularity Six. I might be in the minority here, but I saw the move as a good one for both companies. Palia didn’t seem to have much of a future on its own, which would’ve been a waste of a cute game, and Daybreak has been positioning itself to get back to its roots when it comes to running older games (see: Magic Online) and provide regular revenue from committed playerbases instead of abandoning them.
Which of course leads me to wonder what the company’s next move is going to be. EG7, do you have more acquisitions in mind? Let’s hear some ideas. What MMO should Daybreak buy next?
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