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A 20-billion dollar sell-off of a subsidiary will create headlines.

Indeed. Though mostly at smaller scales than my example below.

Big Conglomerate Inc. buys small developer for 2 billion dollars. Big Conglomerate Inc. makes back that 2 billion on it ten-fold over a period of 10 years. Competing Conglomerate Inc. looks at that and offers 20 billion dollars to buy small developer from them. Thinking they could probably make even more by deploying their own strategies. Big Conglomerate Inc. is happy with that since they've made so much money already anyway, and they're not seeing how they could increase those earnings even further. And Competing Conglomerate obviously isn't gonna share their plans, so they decide to take the deal. This happens way more often than you might realize.

This

Hence why I vaguely said "the right price", which could literally be anything. The question remains; How long would a potential buyer we willing to wait before they've earned back the investment?

I mean, you can buy anything for the right price

And if the rumour ends up being true, then let's be real. Sony x Square Enix isn't exactly the most unimaginable ship.

They have subsidiaries in most countries, which is common for large companies like Sony

Yes, but they have a Japanese subsidiary

That is true. Both parties are Japanese, they don't even have to deal with the U.S on that I have no idea how strict Japan is when it comes to that though

Their IPs are worth more than their market cap

Square isn't really a "major company" on a global scale though They're comparatively small

Which is exactly why it would be a great time to get in. It would mean in the event of an acquisition, the premium would be pretty high.

Maybe I should buy some shares in Square. I don't like it, but I can at least make some money on it if it's true.

I don't like this trend that every medium sized publisher gets bought out by some behemoth

Damn I hope that isn't true. It makes sense though since they're both Japanese.

>.> <.< To be fair, it has managed to blow some life onto the forums, but there is the looming fear that the life is mostly artificial However, every time you see a forum post embedded in this channel, that is a sign that it's somewhat working

For the most part yea I was always sceptical of DChiuch's push to link Discord and the forum I didn't say that

On the news embeds they at least don't get buried instantly The lack of actual discussion in them is probably more due to the nature of the news itself Not all headlines are as interesting to discuss

The threads are working for the news embeds though, that was actually a genius idea ngl I say that as I notice none of the latest articles have any comments on them On the technical aspect they're working at least

The threads weren't working very well Discord does a terrible job of letting people know they exist after they've been created

Agreed

No real request has ever been shown. I usually based it on the general popularity of a upcoming movie/game release within the KH community MCU movies, particularly spoiler heavy ones went pretty high up there.

I was wondering that too. Why not create a special channel for it? But it's not like I know anything about running Discord servers or anything...

Agreed