What is worth more than Star Wars?

That's a shit ton of value to put on King. But few things to consider: This valuation is for the whole company, not just one property. Yes, Candy Crush is their biggest game, but it's not their only game, and they have a few of these festering money-grabbers in their stable. another thing to consider, as with all of these multi-billion dollar deals, it's not an up front cash payment made by Activision. Usually these values are highly inflated with stock value. Most deals of this size will include a sizable number of stock options into the buying company, making it seems that the price is much more than it actually is. I'm sure there was still money that exchanged hands, but not to the total of $5.9 billion. I'd guess that about 2/3's of the money was "paid" in bonds and stock, with the rest being put in cash payments and IP transfer valuations.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
That's a shit ton of value to put on King. But few things to consider: This valuation is for the whole company, not just one property. Yes, Candy Crush is their biggest game, but it's not their only game, and they have a few of these festering money-grabbers in their stable. another thing to consider, as with all of these multi-billion dollar deals, it's not an up front cash payment made by Activision. Usually these values are highly inflated with stock value. Most deals of this size will include a sizable number of stock options into the buying company, making it seems that the price is much more than it actually is. I'm sure there was still money that exchanged hands, but not to the total of $5.9 billion. I'd guess that about 2/3's of the money was "paid" in bonds and stock, with the rest being put in cash payments and IP transfer valuations.
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A metric shit ton of money, but I believe it's a good thing. Could up the quality and potentially cross fund other titles
 
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