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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: BeagleWeezles
Besides, if you've followed Bungie through the years you'd know they have a certain distaste for the 'suits' and the company culture is one that is completely opposite to that of a feasible public corporation...if Microsoft couldn't "assimi" the Bungie team, I highly doubt anyone else could.A distaste for "suits" is hardly a bar to going public. Look at Google and Facebook, and a hundred other public tech companies.
The real reason Bungie isn't likely to do this is because the only reason to go public -- thus taking all of the profits out of the hands of the employee/owners and putting it into the hands of public investors -- is to raise massive amounts of cash. I hardly think Bungie needs that kind of capital, considering they made enough money in the last ten years to move offices 3 times, grow their ranks by hundreds of highly-qualified employees at the top of their game, start multiple new subsidiary/offshoot companies and ventures, and buy back their company from Microsoft.
Considering Bungie has always been sort of a "one really great project at a time" kind of company, and has been quite successful and profitable at this, I don't think it'll be going the EA route anytime soon.
I read this, and my chest swelled with pride... and gas.
The gas is gone now, but the pride still remains.
Nice post Foman.
;)