Ubisoft to swallow Eidos
 

Oh, I just hope Ubisoft doesn't acquire the failed entrepreneurial (i.e. creative, business, and creative business) practices of the things it eats. Who here hasn't cringed every time in the past ten years Eidos was featured on the game box even as a publisher? I shuddered every time without fail. I have an allergic reaction to the logo. Eidos becomes a tasty treat for the French. Let us be merry.

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Mike McGarvey, Eidos CEO, is now believed to be attracting investment for a MBO in a last ditch effort to fight off the French, although investors remain stunned by three profit warnings in 2004 alone. Eidos's fortunes have been less than stellar of late, following a catastrophic next generation showing for Lara in Angel of Darkness - a game so poorly received and so lately delivered that Core Design was stripped of development rights - and a baleful set of sales figures for Hitman 2, despite the success of the first game.

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Posted by Stevan Zivadinovic



Associated Companies
- Eidos Interactive
- Ubisoft

Whoa!

:tmeh:

:tup: This means good things for gamers. I don't care how big Ubi Soft gets, as long as they maintain the fine balance between new and "new-ish" stuff, and continue their policy of delivering polished products.

Eidos ... I don't care about. So it's a win situation, really.

Actually I heard today that EA is going to buy Eidos, and Ubisoft is going to buy Codemasters.

Care to discuss that?

:mrt:

You're right. Even great games, like Deus Ex, make me skeptic because of the EIDOS logo sticked to them.

The only "EIDOS" game I bought was Final Fantasy VII for the PC, which was the crappiest port I've seen in my life... the video codec looks like poop these days even if the videos look good when you play them straight from the cd. It was a very fun, not developed by EIDOS, game though. And the triangular box was stupid.

Right, Mr. T?

:mrt:: I pity the foo' who bought Tomb Raider!

I couldn't even get the Final Fantasy VII PC port to work, so yeah...pretty bad port. For some reason the demo actually worked, but even that crashed after a few minutes play.

I liked the triangular boxes. But thats about it...

Is Eidos even worth buying, what properties do they have? And don't answer "Baltic and Marvin gardens", I mean which games?

Pretty much all the games in trapezoidal boxes.

I remember the original Prince of Persia box being one of them triangular things.
Eidos must've stole the idea from Broderbund.

My memory doesn't go that far... hmm... I am not certain what shape the Last Express box was, and I remember the image vividly... It seems as if the cover design would easily accomodate a trapezoid... then again... I don't remember...

im pretty sure ive read up stuff thats said that Prince of Persia was the first game to have a trapizoid box.

as for eidos, its hardly a surprize they're in financial trouble isnt it? the worst part is they have yet to change their strategy ... ie : throw lots of money at a game, if its a hit, milk the franchise to death, if it isnt, forget about it.

i would have thought they'd learned their lesson after daikatana, or even after TR:AoD, but noooo .... another Hitman is on the way.


SiN

The Last Express had a normal rectangular box.

I've got the Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame (i.e. the original 2D Prince Of Persia 2, not the forthcoming one) box, which is some kind of strange trapezoid shape I think.

Day Of The Tentacle originally came as an upright triangular prism box, which I've got. Either it was limited edition or retailers complained about stacking difficulties, because after a while it got replaced by a standard box.

The triangle DOTT was a limited edition thing.

Well, it rules. The days of special boxes like that seem to be gone, at least in the UK. That said, the Doom 3 packaging looks kind of nice with that fold-out piece and the little 'warning' card. Better than the standard DVD-case with thin-manual standard of today.

Whoah, 15 comments! New record! Let's talk about game packaging some more.

Fine. Don't discuss that.


But let's discuss more about game packaging as Marek suggested.
I've got two copies of I have no mouth and I must scream, the regular box and the 3d box, it has a 3d mousepad inside the box, and the packaging looks really different from the old usual packaging.

Yes and it was published by Eidos...

The packaging of The Wheel of Time is just hilarious.

The white plastic sheet in the front was obviously meant to be transparent so that the interior art with the mansion or a mountain thingy is visible, but it's completely opaque.
I'm sure the publisher blames the game's poor sales on this little blunder.