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It looks like it's even worse- Kadokawa itself has made a statement of intent to have Sony buy them, supposedly to make sure they aren't bought out by a certain other company.
Can these companies not just say "no thanks, we'll just keep operating as our own company."?
Not under modern capitalism. It's their fiduciary responsibility to acquire maximum profits for their share holders, even if that means getting bought out by someone they know will kill the company and all future profits.
That seems like it goes against their duty to yield maximum profits.
Shareholder responsibilities require constant "line go up" at all times. Making a decision that doesn't make line go up immediately will usually have them lose their shit, even if its a better long term choice that would make them more money.
Its why most corporations are constantly fucking around with shit that already works and destroying their futures.
This is an incredibly perverse system of incentives that ought to be dropped. How does one go about utterly destroying the stock market?
Either total governmental collapse by this point or a complete purge from the bottom up of the current group-think of economists running everything in the background.
The Fed will literally lose it's goddamn mind over the notion of us having a depression and do everything in it's power to prevent that.
Oh, and likely [REDACTING] anyone and everyone who has a MBA or listens to thier advise.
Reverse this terrible verdict: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.#:~:text=Article-,Dodge%20v.,of%20his%20employees%20or%20customers.
100% one of the worst moments in the timeline 2nd maybe only to removal of the gold standard
this didn't happen by itself. people with names and addresses made it happen.
The solution is for new companies never to enter the shareholder market.
Shareholder responsibilities require that you put the best interests of the shareholder first, but that's not supposed to mean you have to stick your head into every mousetrap you find along the way. If companies are being sued for not making shortsighted, self-destructive decisions that is a corruption of the intent behind the rule.
That is true, but the issues arises when you are forced because the shareholders themselves demanding you stick your head into a trap because they want that short term gain. Because they, or at least the board representing them, are doing more than just throwing money at it, its also their opinions and beliefs.
You may try to explain it to them, but its not always going to work. Because most of them will be the force behind things like "a new study from Harvard says more blacks equals more money, hire more blacks immediately" and anything otherwise is racism to get you ousted from the company.
Its the "out of state landlord" problem. When someone has a lot of money invested in something, but has no actual investment mentally about it otherwise. So all they care about is the money flowing, even if less money now means more later.
I saw an article around the 2000s ish about some shareholder suing microsoft. Because the 8 billion research budget could be "better" used on shareholder payouts...
The only public company I've seen that tries to combat stupid normies and gambling degenerates from fucking with its operations is Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffet made its Class A stock obscenely expensive (currently at $723,549.00 a share) so people who buy the stock would be long-term investors and have some skin in the game, and not just YOLO.
That said, Buffet did create Class B shares for normies to get in, but with drastically lower voting power (1/10,000th of Class A).
Is FromSoft a publicly traded company?
Good question. Doesn't look like it.
Unfortunately, I can think of several companies WORSE than Sony to be owned by so this might be better the devil you know than don't situation.
Considering how Sony has become more Westernized, i.e. woke, that's concerning enough. It ain't no Netflix or Amazon but the trend is there.
You know Sony was originally an American company, right?
Doesn't sound like it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#History
You might be thinking of Sega.
Yeah probably
For the longest time I thought From was owned by Bamco.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. At least Elden Ring was a pretty good game to go out on. Maybe Miyazaki can start his own studio, I’d hate for him to have to see the inevitable Biowarification that’s to follow.
They can buy the company, but the company has already proven once that its incapable of making a good game without Miyazaki himself. Dark Souls 2 is a meme of a joke for a reason.
So if they fuck around too hard and press a man who would get paid massively to jump to anywhere else, they will just Konami/Kojima the entire franchise and end up making a shadow of what they want.
Also, personal opinion but, Elden Ring showed the genre is on its last legs. Its pumped full of things that would be found in a bad Soulsclone game instead of a legitimate game by the man himself. Empty exploration, hugely bloated stats, and bosses designed to troll you because "le hard!" Really feels like they are running out of ideas to make the formula work again.
Metal Gear is a dead franchise at this point, all they can do is port all their games like MGS4 to multiplatform and that's it.
Only Kojima would want it at this point, just to preserve the IP from fuckery by squatting it.
Exactly. Konami tried to keep going and instantly fell on their face. All they have left is porting and "remaking" the classics to modern levels, which is working decently but is going to run out soon. While Kojima seems to be happily doing whatever the fuck he wants and making a shit ton of money/connections doing it (even if the product is iffy).
From is in a worse position if they lose Miyazaki. All the Souls games are readily available and most are PC already. The Demon's Souls well is tapped and Bloodborne is the white whale left. The games are far too new for a "remaster/remake" to make much money (since unlike DS1, the online works on all of them). They have a catalogue of non-Souls games to draw from, but we know Sony isn't interested in that.
So they'd end up with the B-team who made Dark Souls 2, hoping they don't botch it this time and also make something better than Elden Ring. While Miyazaki would be snatched by literally any company he wanted.
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Bearer, seek seek lest.
That game also had George R.R. Martin as a promotional vehicle. Martin being a woke-flake from beginning to end.
The DLC kinda was.
Welp. That makes me sad.
Looks like it's DEI flavored PSN required log ins from here on out boys.
[Shape Metal Alloy quietly fades out]