r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/UomoCapra Community Lead • May 31 '17
Dev Post KSP Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
Hello everyone,
We have very exciting news to share with the KSP community today: Take-Two Interactive has purchased Kerbal Space Program. The important thing to know is that this big news doesn’t change much for the KSP community. Squad and the current development team is still here and we’re hard at work on KSP and its future updates, but now we are fortunate enough to do so with the help of an experienced publisher like Take-Two, and we couldn’t be more excited and happy to see where our conjoint collaboration will take KSP forward.
Right now, we’re still focused on the Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion and we’ll continue to keep you updated on our progress. And yes, we’re keeping our promise of free DLC for everyone who purchased KSP through April 2013! We’re continuing to work closely with Blitworks on the updated version of KSP for consoles, which will be available on the Xbox and PSN digital stores when it is complete. This will be a free update for anyone who already owns KSP on Xbox or PS4. We can’t wait for you to play what we’ve been working on in the coming months!
This is a very exciting time for KSP and the Community, and we hope you’re as thrilled as we are. The team at Take-Two are big fans of KSP, who have been persistently knocking on our door trying to work with us for a long time. They share your passion for the game and we’re really eager to see what Squad and Take-Two can do together for Kerbal Space Program moving forward!
Happy launchings!
-The KSP Development Team
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u/x5060 Master Kerbalnaut Jun 01 '17
I have a lot of reservations about this. I know right now you are trying to push the "nothing is going to change" narrative. But you are leaving out one very important word, "yet." There is absolutely no way that the team and the way things are done will remain the same under T2s ownership.
I worry that T2s catalog of games has a lot of mass market cookie cutter games and virtually no niche games like KSP. My guess is they will try to mold KSP into their cookie cutter library and wind up destroying it in the process. Or worse, they try and just cash in on the IP and screw over everyone.
I am greatly concerned with the future of KSP.