Ubisoft One of Multiple Companies to Bid for Dishonored Dev Arkane

Ubisoft are bearly keeping themselves afloat though...

Ubisoft would be a better home for Arkane than Microsoft by default. There really is no publisher that manages their developers more ineptly than Microsoft.

@AdamNovice I hope Sony will consider buying more single-player studios like this one. They have more than enough live-service capacity as-is.

Happy theres intrest, i love Arkane. Not a fan of Ubisoft and not sure how they would fit or could afford them, but anything is better then shuttering.

Dishonored is one of my favorite games ever. Does Arkane own the IP? If so, will they get to keep it?

Hoping for the best outcome for them. I always want to see European studios thrive.

I hope they do get acquired by someone that actually has a plan or long term vision for them or else they might be in the exact same situation in the future. So hopefully not Ubisoft.

I'd ordinarily say "Ubisoft? Yuck!" but are there any good options out of the potential candidates?

Ubisoft doesn't seem to know its arse from its elbow these days, plus do we really want any studio in the hands of a company that spends close to two decades trying to develop a game with nothing to show for it except a CG trailer, a canned "gameplay trailer" and a Joseph Gordon-Levitt flavoured "Beyond Good & Evil 2 was totally supposed to be riddled with NFTs before we realised that was a lost cause" stink in the air?

EA has little to no interest in big budget single player games. As soon as Iron Man is finished and shipped (if it ever actually ships), EA will probably kick EA Motive to the curb. They already cancelled a Black Panther game and closed Cliffhanger Games, and cancelled Mass Effect 5 and shut down Bioware.

Embracer Group is probably the poster child for throwing money around with little to show for it, so God help us all if they end up with Arkane.

The more I go on, the more depressing it becomes, so I'll stop here.

Arkane hasn't made a good game since Prey. Ubisoft have overall been better than them.

@JohntheRaptor Deathloop was great personally.

Whoever gets them, please put out a PS5 Dishonored collection in the vein of the recent Metro re-release. Even if there's no upgrade path and it's a full priced release, I'm sure like me there will be plenty of folks who'd love to have those games in 4K60, and they'd generate a decent amount of money

@AdamNovice If it's coming with the Dishonored Prey and Deathloop Ips That would be a good buy for Sony as all 3 of those Ips also have Tv show or movie potential as well So all the more reason to buy and it probably wouldn't cost them much either.

@Areus @AdamNovice
Can't see MS selling the studio to Sony.

If they were the only bidder, French law would force the sale possibly.

Just because both are French, right?
Joking aside, Ubisoft make good games, they have enshitify them with all the micro transactions, a bazillion different launch versions, etc. But at the core their games are good.

@Krlozgod so good that they ended up selling themselves to the Saudis in order to save themselves from bankruptcy? They’ve been a shambles for many years

@nessisonett The game is okay, but it always just feels like I'm playing a downgraded Dishonored game for babies.

@BeastfromtheEast Somy would never buy this studio, lol. I don’t think they’d take em for free to be honest.

@Oram77 Ubi did so well with Black Flag Resync they figure why not celebrate with a terrible acquisition …

A-steak-with-ketchup arkane have made some superb games. Dark mesiah might and magic,the dishonoured games,wolfenstein young blood,arx fatalis..so long as somebody buys them and allows them to keep making great games how is that a negative?