Take-Two In Talks With Codemasters Over Potential Acquisition

I hope Codemasters don't agree. They are a great company as is and don't need a parent company like take two. This would spell disaster for the Dirt series and F1 games.

Great. So Codemasters games will have live ads in them now? 😂

Coming next summer: F1 2K21, miscrotransactioned to hell. No thanks.

@tinCAT-zero
Before Dirt Rally launched in early access on Steam, Codemasters were almost broke. Take Two are a solid publisher and with a bigger budget Codies games could shine even more (I hope they drop the EGO engine finally). Just my 2 cents

@gollumb82

I’ll give Take Two one thing.....they own the BioShock franchise & I desperately want a new game in that series.

@KelticDevil
I wouldn't mind a new *shock game (loved System Shock 2 and Bioshock 1 and 3) but without Ken Levine it would probably suck. Just like Thief... Still can't get over that. But we do have Arcane now 👍

@gollumb82

Good point. BioShock 2 was the weakest of the trilogy & no Ken Levine. I still liked it though. It’s held up pretty well compared to games these days. It just really had an impossible act to follow after the legendary original BioShock.

And that’s a great point about Arcane. I would love to see a BioShock like shooter from them. I haven’t played Prey yet, but I heard great things about it & look forward to then being an Microsoft 1st party studio! 👍🏻

I don't like this... Codemasters are one company I've been buying games from for two decades. Way back to Colin McRae Rally. 2K have shown a real greed with the NBA series and a real lack of quality with the WWE series. I would hate for one of my all time favourite developer/publisher to be lost to a Microtransaction focussed American Dollar first company.

Probably go the way of the excellent Criterion Games

I simply can't believe that codemasters need more money at the moment

@ultraviolet Didn't they acquire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly_Mad_Studios for $30 million?

@KelticDevil
Ditto for me. Still haven't played Prey and it's time to rectify this mistake as I hear it's basically Bioshock but in space 😁 I only fear I won't have the time to play all these games before Cyberpunk 2077 finally launches.

@Vincent294 Yeap sure did

@gollumb82
I thought the eco engine was great. I had noticed Codemasters games drop very quickly in price, which for me is a good thing. But maybe for them a sign of bad sales. It'll be the end of an era which will be sad. This gen Codemasters were my favourite developer with the Dirt and F1 games

@graysoncharles
If that's the case, it's a pity. I like them as they are. A small developer like Codemasters is more about people. If a few key people leave because of the acquisition it'll spell the end. That is my fear.

@tinCAT-zero
Let's face it: rally isn't a very popular sport (I'm not into F1 but I suppose it's more popular) so it was probably the reason for the prices going down so quickly. I love Dirt Rally 1 and 2 and I remember people begging for DLC for the 1st one, then hammering Codies for releasing paid DLC for the second one. Personally, I have high hopes for Codies and Dirt Rally 3.0, as well as their first WRC game.

@gollumb82
The did get attacked by a minority of outraged "so called gamers" for releasing DLC for Dirt rally 2.0 who took to review sites without even having played the game to vent their anger, but their little assault lost steam. You can actually pick up the complete game with all dlc for about €20. I had so much fun playing Dirt rally and 2.0. I could only describe them as Stunt race FX (the old SNES game which I also loved) on steroids.

I think Dirt rally 3.0 could be positively mind blowing if they can continue the trend they started this generation.