Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei

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Zoy
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Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 04, 2008 17:22
From Edge Online, Tecmo has apparently declined Square Enix's takeover offer and is in the midst of negotiating a merger with bland-yet-venerable industry stalwart Koei.  Koei has had a solid, if unspectacular, business model built on console strategy games dating back to the 8-bit era, spiced up with a recent attempt at the action/racing market.  A merger with Tecmo could nicely diversify both companies' catalogs.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 04, 2008 19:20
Whatever logic there is behind Tecmo's desicion, to choose Koei over Square (Final-Fucking Fantasy???) it just smells like stupidity to me.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 04, 2008 20:56
I think the main logic behind it is that they want to keep their jobs.  If they are swallowed up by Square-Enix there would be no use for any of the executives or higher-ups and their creative freedom would most likely be stifled while their lead designers and programmers are assigned the menial task of porting Final Fantasy: The Iteration To End All Iterations XXII to mobile phones.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 05, 2008 00:35
Considering that Square acquired Taito a while back and Taito still does its own thing, I am pretty sure Square would acquire Tecmo, but let them do their thing, kind of like a first party developer or so.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 05, 2008 02:22
lol, Tecmo doesn't know how to do their own thing that's why they're about to get swallowed.
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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 08, 2008 13:58
Tecmo lost its only useful product when they lost Itigaki and Team Ninja. Who cares who buys them at this point?
I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 09, 2008 00:16
exactly, they're going to be bought for their IP's then scrapped and they know it.
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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 11, 2008 05:33
Pretty ridiculous, it'd be like a woman turning me down in favor of locopuyo.
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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 11, 2008 12:11
In S-E they are their biteches,with Koei they are "the" pimps.
Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 14, 2008 01:19

Pretty ridiculous, it'd be like a woman turning me down in favor of locopuyo.

The world can be pretty cruel, can't it.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 14, 2008 02:25
What can I say? Chicks dig 1337 micro.
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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 14, 2008 03:45
Don't forget oversized blue button-ups, and khaki shorts.

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Re:Tecmo turns down Square, looks to Koei - Sep 14, 2008 15:57