Kunos bought and sold??

I think for all the paying people of the PC world, an explanation would be nice?

Is that the end of PC development?

What happens next?

Or are you going to jump on your Ship and sail away?

 

yeah that's it, its the race sim rapture. you better go get prepared... <chuckle chuckle>

 

Just to provide some context
https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/kunos-being-bought-by-digital-bros.42196/

 

I am sure an explanation will be given shortly, please stop freaking out everyone...

 

I just read a post on social media that linked to a news article, in Italian, about a 100% sale of Kunos to another entity. I have not yet found a translation of this article but here it is: http://www.trend-online.com/ansa/digital-bros-acquister-il-100di-kunos-simulazioni-262279/

What can this mean for the sim, if true?

 

edit

Seriously wth. I'm right now editing my posts from one thread and end up editing my previous post in another thread. Forget about this comment here, sorry.

Edit 3 Was this thread merged at the same time as I posted in one of the threads and edited my post in another? lol


I think what my previous comment here said was along the lines of "I hope you realise that you bought a product with limited support, not a lifetime subscription for new features and content." Sorry for the confusion.

 

Yes, I believe digital bros bought Kunos just to know what spending millions of Euros feels like and plan on discontinuing the game now. They obviously think AC is worth investing a lot of money in.

Hopefully they plan to keep the spirit of AC going, simulation, and don't go down the flashy Forza route.

From the company's point of view this is just a cash injection, it doesn't care who owns it.

 

Well not sure what to feel about this. I hope they still have all the decision rights. It's never good when some higher up suit people call the shots. I hope we will see AC2 someday primarily on PC with proper sim like now.

 

posted by marco

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Ok, let's clarify this before it becomes the bigger flame of the year.

By today, Kunos Simulazioni is part of Digital Bros Family, and me and Stefano by today are shareholders of Digital Bros. That's it. We are still the founders of Kunos, we are still IN, also keeping our respective positions and responsabilities, with just few exceptions: the budget we'll manage by now doesn't come anymore from our personal profits, but from Digital Bros, our bigger AC fan. Keeping the same policy, strategies, DNA, development team, goals. So, if this news would not been made public, you couldn't realize that something is changed, because - by a gamer/simracer point of view - nothing is going to change.

The reason why this news comes like a bombshell is because Digital Bros is a listed company, therefore this kind of operation must a) kept confidential until the negotiation is over, b) go public when is done. That's it.

For whom are afraid that today a piece of their simracing world has gone, let me remind them that Digital Bros has published - under its label 505Games - the console version of Assetto Corsa, and it doesn't seem to me that AC on PS4/XB1 is an arcade game: definetely it isn't. Therefore, before to scream in any direction that "Kunos has been bought, The World is Over", please sit down, breath and think. Because the only news you should be interested is that by today, we have more resources, time and power to do our job, even better than before.

So: think easier, live better, stay strong. The Future is Bright.

Have a nice weekend

 

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"TIME EXTENSION"

Upwards & Onwards

 

gla & hf

 

Good luck and high five?!

 

Thank you for the explanation. Just remember that people are only panicking because they love your product SO much.

And now that they day is winding down, I'm going to go take the car of my choice around Silverstone. Ta.

 

Hope it doesn`t morph into Assetto Forza

 

Panic over. You can put the pitchfork back in the garden shed. The world has not ended

 

U r forgetting about the orange guy...