Seibu Kaihatsu

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Zeron
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Seibu Kaihatsu

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What is Seibu Kaihatsu doing anyway? I checked their wiki and the have not even developed a game bythemselves since 1998 just been licensing out to other devs like MOSS . are they lazy or something?
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MOSS is, in fact, not an entirely different company. MOSS was created as a bailout company for Seibu Kaihatsu employees. Many of the people who used to develop their games under Seibu Kaihatsu are simply doing it under a different name now.

I believe the way this worked was that Seibu Kaihatsu was going bankrupt, so they created MOSS and "sold" their IPs to them, so they could retain creative control over them.
Of course, that's just an opinion.
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MathU wrote:MOSS is, in fact, not an entirely different company. MOSS was created as a bailout company for Seibu Kaihatsu employees. Many of the people who used to develop their games under Seibu Kaihatsu are simply doing it under a different name now.

I believe the way this worked was that Seibu Kaihatsu was going bankrupt, so they created MOSS and "sold" their IPs to them, so they could retain creative control over them.

Oh thats pretty clever, so what is MOSS up to now that they are done with KoF Skystage?
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Zeron wrote:
MathU wrote:MOSS is, in fact, not an entirely different company. MOSS was created as a bailout company for Seibu Kaihatsu employees. Many of the people who used to develop their games under Seibu Kaihatsu are simply doing it under a different name now.

I believe the way this worked was that Seibu Kaihatsu was going bankrupt, so they created MOSS and "sold" their IPs to them, so they could retain creative control over them.

Oh thats pretty clever, so what is MOSS up to now that they are done with KoF Skystage?
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Coming up with another new company name to hide their shame.
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E. Randy Dupre wrote:Coming up with another new company name to hide their shame.
lmao :lol:
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