News: SOE becomes independent as Daybreak Gaming

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https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...company.213868

Dear Players, Partners and Friends,

Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!

As part of this transition, SOE will now become Daybreak Game Company. This name embodies who we are as an organization, and is a nod to the passion and dedication of our employees and players. It is also representative of our vision to approach each new day as an opportunity to move gaming forward.

So what exactly does this mean for you? It will be business as usual and all SOE games will continue on their current path of development and operation. In fact, we expect to have even more resources available to us as a result of this acquisition. It also means new exciting developments for our existing IP and games as we can now fully embrace the multi-platform world we are living in.

Our games and players are the heart and soul of our organization, and we are committed to maintaining our portfolio of online games and pushing the limits of where we can take online gaming together.

Thank you for your continued support. See you in game!

The Team at Daybreak

Personally I wouldn't go doom and gloom over this, I've experienced something similar with a UK company (John Moulton's Alchemy) buying out a software company of which I was a customer - I mean responsible within the organisation I worked for.

When Venture Capital companies buy other companies it is often because they see value in investing for future profit. But we'll just have to see how it goes.

Maybe Smedley may feel under a bit of pressure as changes to management are not unknown. If so, good luck, but I@m sure he appreciates thing better than I can.