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by ilyt 999 days ago
Incorrect on nearly all counts:

* The GAME (KSP) and the IP was purchased by Take-Two, not the company itself.

* The IP was then given to Star theory (MNC/SMNC/Planetary Annihilation guys) to develop KSP2

* Star theory failed once to deliver on the budget they promised, they got extra money

* ST failed second time,T2 didn't wanted to give them more money, so ST wanted to sell out to T2

* T2 went "fuck it", took IP from them

* Take-Two was one to poach developers from Star Theory (not Squad!) to make new studio to make KSP2. IIRC they basically made blanked statement "if you want to work on KSP we will hire you" to their devs, a lot of them came over.

I assume the last part happened because T2 went "hold on, you failed to deliver then want us to buy you ? Why would we buy company with incompetent management in the first place ? Poaching devs is cheaper".

> You are better off installing better graphics mods on KSP.

Well, at least you got that right.

1 comments

You got it wrong. Star Theory didn't want to sell out to Take2. They realized Star Theory couldn't fulfill the totally-not-abusive-and-predatory deadline they wanted to release the game, so they said "ok" and tried to purchase the studio. They rejected the purchase, so they poached like 60% of their developers and employees instead, to a point that ST had to close doors because Take2 poached almost their entire work force.