THQ just missed out on signing Respawn

“We were one deal point away from signing [Respawn]. I saw [West and Zampella] recently, and they said it was that only one deal point, one that I wouldn’t cave on. My responsibility to our stockholders and to my CEO and the company is to build an IP library. (Letting West and Zampella own the rights to their game would) open the doors for everyone else to say, ‘I wanna own it too.’” - THQ CEO Danny Bilson

“It should come as no surprise that, after Activision fired us in March 2010, the other major videogame publishers contacted Jason and me about working with them. I’ve known Danny Bilson for many years, so THQ was one of the publishers who approached us. We had serious discussions with them. As for the IP ownership, frankly, after what we’d just been through with Activision, owning the IP we were going to create was important to us. Unfortunately, THQ did not want to agree to that.” - Vincent Zampella

Well, it’s going to be a few years before we find out if THQ made the right decision or not. Something tells me THQ is going to feel the sting a bit more when that first successful game hits.

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