Thread: Sengoku Providence announced!

Originally Posted by ZeroZet

Yet they are running $2 000 000 (and now $10 000 000) investment funds into english developers willing to do naughty games... Curious ways to drive ledgers to green, huh?

You do know that they are after licensing, because if you take their "investment", your IP belongs to them. In short, yes, this is a way to drive up their "shareholder" value before ever going public (or attracting an acquisition). Think of it this way: If you were in a brothel, and you were competing with 9 other women, being displayed like an object for sale, and some rich dude walks in, I'm sure you're going to pull out all the stops you can.

Many tech companies have done this before, under the guise of "fostering nurturing or budding development", but all they were after was some no-name basement dweller who had this brilliant idea, and they wanted to own the next "Facebook", "Snapchat" or "Twitter". I know a lot of people in the investment community, so these kinds of things are quite common. I'm interested in knowing who exactly is pulling the strings behind Nutaku (and not the public face of some PR dweeb)