Well it's to be expected that when an IP becomes successful it begins to be exploited, but it sure seemed to happen fast with Bioshock. After the game's release and subsequent success, rumors whirled about a sequel, and mobile rights were even purchased, but Take 2 appears to have even larger plans for the new franchise. An entry on MTV Multiplayer details Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick, speaking at the 2008 Smid Cap Conference giving an explanation for why Take 2 is turning down EA's offer to purchase the company for $26 a share.
To do this he details the company's past projects, present assets, and future potentials. That's where the above image came from. We already know that the mobile rights have been sold, and there have been Bioshock movie rumors before too. Well it seems the MMO arena may be the next space targeted by Take 2 for 1950's dystopian invasion. How about it readers, would you be interested in a Bioshock MMO?
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3-27-2008 @ 10:59AM
RoboJoel said...
Potential Wasted... Why wasn't GTA listed in the MMO grouping?
Bioshock as an MMO does sound interesting though, life in Rapture before everything COMPLETELY collapsed. I'm intrigued.
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3-27-2008 @ 11:06AM
Jolard said...
This is just them blowing smoke. They are doing everything they can to make their value higher, including making predictions as to every possible dollar they might be able to squeeze out of every property.
The best evidence is that they also list Civilization as an MMO possibility. HUH? That makes absolutely no sense. No sense at all.
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3-27-2008 @ 11:09AM
Neuromancer said...
MTVMulletplayer, what? ;)
Anything Take 2 does that keeps the shareholders from selling out to EA is fine with me, even if it's driving the Bioshock name into the ground.
Now if only Ken Levine would just show us some of that X-Com game he's been working on...
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3-27-2008 @ 11:27AM
iRoy said...
Irony is that they have to now show they are willing to rape every IP they have just like EA.
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3-27-2008 @ 2:06PM
JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) said...
Take Two owns Bioshock!? Ironically I thought it was EA, not just because of their exploit tactics.
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3-27-2008 @ 2:27PM
Teabag said...
Pfft. That ain't happening. GTA should up there as an MMO, not Bioshock, which should remain as a superb single player experience only.
Please Take 2, don't do this. You better not...
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3-27-2008 @ 7:39PM
psychedelicpaintbrush said...
MMO... a shooter MMO? How about they just put online multi-player in the sequel and win GotY again? Seriously, I don't know how this could NOT be a good multi-player game but MMO gives me a bad feeling. If they put multi-player in the sequel, give us the same customization options the original has +new plasmids, I'll play that game until my hands hurt and my eyes bleed.
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3-27-2008 @ 8:35PM
RomeoDude said...
I'm somewhat surprised I don't see GTA on the potential MMO list... then again, GTA would make one awkward MMO.
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