Thrasher
Wheeee!
I think it's more driven by the owners wanting to make a killing by selling to buyers.
Is this typical nowadays that some companies tend to take over others ?
Is taking over actually a kind of business principle ? As soon as it generates profits, take it over" ?
I mean - personall, I would prefer developing companies to be independent as long as possible - and the publishing and the markting should be done by others. Clearly divided tasks between two partners.
But no, companies want to be everything at once. Not wanting developers to stay independent.
I wonder, why ? Because, companies which are small and efficient can generate as much profits - measured against their size - than big behemoths.
It's like … We once had small food shops here. We called them "Aunt emma Shops". They're all gone now.
Now, they are replaced by huge food-selling companies, so-called "discounters", like Aldi and Lidl, and "sell-everything-food-and-non-food" companies like Walmar(k)t.
For the customer, this has both pros and cons :
pro: lower prices
con: lower service, monoculture
The bigger they become, the more they want to squeeze out any possible competors. It's like … some sort of entity becoming insane, and wanting to control EVERYTHING.
(I'm speaking of so-called "meta-cultures" and "meta-beings" here, which can be companies which act like a bee hive or so.)