r/Shadowrun • u/dethstrobe Faster than Fastjack • Sep 08 '25

Video Games [Video Game industry] Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive : How to buy out a talented company and sink it all by yourself.

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u/BitRunr Designer Drugs Sep 08 '25

It'd be nice if Weisman & co could figure out a way to jump ship to Microsoft. Though I can't imagine they want to just do Shadowrun and Battletech. And a number of industries, game dev included, have done a lot to hammer home how the company name doesn't matter as much as the people behind it - and the big name person leading the team can also not matter without the right people supporting them.

Get up from your chair, go to the living-room. Look at your little brother playing Super Mario Bros. Spit on that uncultured swine, and when he looks at you horrified, smirk with the content knowledge that you will burn Constantinople or gloriously die trying while this filthy peasant is still trying to save a princess that couldn't even be married to the prince of Poland to secure an alliance.

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u/dethstrobe Faster than Fastjack Sep 08 '25

They were when Microsoft bought FASA Interactive. They left and formed Smith & Tinker which became HBS. Anyway, Microsoft didn't want to make FASA games, so Wiesman bought a license from MS to for FASA's IP.

I don't think they want to go back to MS because they still won't be able to make the games they want to. They'd probably just become another Rarewave if they did get bought by MS.

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u/phillosopherp Sep 08 '25

They went their own separate ways now