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http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1029/homeworld-acquisition-and-plans/
thing is. It just does not make any sense, with gearbox has zero experience with rts games. Or are they going to make fps homeworld?
still I hope for best outcome.
lol, funny thread on GB forum
Worst gaming news in ages
Gearbox having their first Homeworld development meeting:
I really hope they don't mess it up, or I hope they mess it up so bad they sell it to Stardock 
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I want Gearbox to succeed but their creditbility has shot down to pretty much nothing after Duke Nukem and ACM.
I am scared that Homeworld will be run down into a hole it can't climb back out.
Is it possible they don't want to actually make a game with but hold on it to see if the increased visibility of the sale will drive the value up so that they can then resell it? And if the visibility does not pan out they can then attempt to make something with it to recoup losses and then sell the IP again?
If they wanted to do that, you'd never have heard about them buying it. Why sully the brand Gearbox by doing something like that?
Money, it does strange things to businesses as well as people, they could just be greedy. My opinion here is that more likely someone who is higher up in the game studios really liked the Homeworld series and wants to make something with it to call their own.
What's sad is a company that doesn't do RTS outbid Stardock. Had they not stretched we'd be seeing what Stardock could do with the IP 
Thanks Psychoak. Exactly...
I know right!!! If Star dock and Paradox, known for space based RTS games and came short in the number 2 and 3 respectively in their bidding. Just how much (plus the kitchen sink), did they drop on Homeworld..?
"Wow, this is way better than Paradox or Stardock getting it!" - Said no one ever.
Lame. Hopefully they don't screw it up, but their track record is less than awesome and they have no experience in the genre.
My apologies for jumping to a potentially embarrassing conclusion G_Bison.
Was really hoping for Sega. Yeah they're on the box of Colonial Marines, but their track record has been pretty good lately.
Stardock doesn't need the license to make something good though, and it sounds like they've got plans until 2015 anyways.
No sweat dude, I'm cool. I can see how it looked after your comment, but at another thread, I was teasing on who may have won and I was way off. I thought the winner was Jon Shafer who had a hand at Civilization V, which would have been better than Gearbox...
Edit: Here's a tweet from the editor from Joystiq.com, Too funny...
Gearbox picks up Homeworld IP at THQ auction aol.it/11FdA9y Now with 3,056% more guns.
— Jess Conditt (@JessConditt) April 22, 2013
They bid >3X what we had bid so they seriously wanted it. That's a serious commitment to the franchise. I think it'll be fine.
they'll outsource it for a few years and then panic 
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and... jon shafer?? that's one strange guess. doesn't he have enough on his plate as it is?
I find it hilarious how people forget Gearbox created Counter Strike which is probably most played MP FPS ever, not to mention as far as team based FPS goes still the best.
Ming Le and Jess Cliffe were the original creators of counter strike (mod for Half Life).
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