IPLY investors still buying

Colt said:
Shh... We'll just let Calculon handle that, he's good with numbers. Supposedly.
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E=(E^0)*E;

While Fallout fans owning the right to keep Fallout 3 from being released if it’s shit is very tempting, we should stick to what we're good at, namely the hating.

Hate.on(Herve);
Hate.on(POS);
Hate.on(the::FOMMORPG);

Perhaps we could sell some glittering gems of hatred to some bigots in Carolina and have enough money to buy Interplay AND pay it's debt.
 
Ratty said:
Eh, you're supposed to be contributing a couple of thousand dollars each. If you all chip in $25, we'll at best be able to buy a few hundred bottles of lukewarm champagne.
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Actually: there is a total of 56 301 shares, and with a cost of 0.023 dollars each, we could buy interplay for a total of 1294.923 $ (991.723 €). So if 51 people were to chip in 25$, we'd own Interplay.

Heck, I could buy IPLY myself :shock:
 
Isn't that number just the number of shares on sale right now, I believe there are quite alot more shares than that circling around.
 
Odin said:
Isn't that number just the number of shares on sale right now, I believe there are quite alot more shares than that circling around.
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That's true, and I believe Herve and Eric own a fairly large chunk of shares themselves.

This will nevah happen folks. Nice to think/dream about, but not a possibility.
 
calculon00 said:
Perhaps we could sell some glittering gems of hatred to some bigots in Carolina and have enough money to buy Interplay AND pay it's debt.
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I suggest we sell Kilus/Hitler and PsychoSniper then. They're not the brightest gems but they're still full of angst. :wink: - Colt
 
Hm... I'd donate € 50 if this'd actually help getting the Jefferson/VB/Fallout source code.

I wonder how much it'd take to own 51% of the company's stock.
 
I'd donate 50 bling, but then I want whatever game you shitheads spit out for free.

Fuck Gayerplay. Fuck Fistus.
 
Odin said:
Isn't that number just the number of shares on sale right now, I believe there are quite alot more shares than that circling around.
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Yeah and most corporations have different series of shares. Common stockholders can only vote once in a while. Usually there are several series of preferred shares, and guess who owns those? Guess your odds of ever getting your hands on them. As far as I know, you can't just buy a corporation by buying shares, especially not a bunch of individual people.
 
dude_obj said:
As far as I know, you can't just buy a corporation by buying shares, especially not a bunch of individual people.
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Last I checked you can take over corporations by owning 51% (rounded) of their share. But maybe I'm watching too many crappy Hollywood movies (oh, hey! I can hack your computer by staring at it and hitting the keyboard randomly!).

As for the individuals: I thought we were talking about pooling the money? Buying shares individually would only raise the stock value.
 
I thought a hostile takeover was exactly that: Buying a controlling amount of stock in a company and forcing the rest to sell as well. :? - Colt
 
Common shares are usually issued to raise capital. There are many kinds of shares. Preferred shares are usually held by major investors, not available for sale on open market regularly, and often they hold control, so the company cannot be taken over by sales of common shares. I don't know if this is true for IPLY, but I'm certain its not as simple as "let's buy their shares".

A hositile takeover is one entity (corporation) taking over another, and we are not an entity like that. Okay, so buy some common shares and what power do you have? Ever owned any? You'll get a statement saying you are eligible for votes at a quarterly meeting. You don't decide WHAT is voted on.

Now take the example of source code for example, a corporation cannot choose to give away assets! It must maintain the interest of the shareholders. Now that may be you, but getting source code is not how you gain on investment.

It's also rediculous that anyone should think they could undo the bethesda licensing. Get real: it's already done. Even if there was a new owner he/they can't just tear up the contract because they don't like it.
 
Eh. You just ruined my day. I thought I could buy myself Interplay for birthday.

dude_obj said:
It's also rediculous that anyone should think they could undo the bethesda licensing. Get real: it's already done. Even if there was a new owner he/they can't just tear up the contract because they don't like it.
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Erm. Who here thought they could undo existing contracts upon owning the company?
 
Ashmo said:
Erm. Who here thought they could undo existing contracts upon owning the company?
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I forget who, but this kind of idea has been mentioned more than once (not necessarily in this thread). Most of the things that are being said in this thread hold no weight in the real world. Owning some common shares gives you no power at all. And you'd need to know the whole financial situation to know about acquisition.
 
There's a total of 93 Million shares( non of them are prefered) and most of them are owned by the creditors(bank owners of Titus + lots of frenchies) so if you want to buy IPLY, you're going to have to gulp down a load of french whine.
 
Yep, you have to get the dough to buy the company, THEN you have to have the dough to start paying off the creditors.

You don't just inherit the company and its assets, you get all the liabilities too, and you can IMAGINE how jacked the company is at the hands of the Hervinator.
 
Hehe. I'm almost tempted to be a share holder again. I don't remember what the shares were when I sold mine. I just remember I sold them the minute BIS died in 12/03.
 
Just a word of warning... A chunk of the shares are tied up by the Brothers Caen. You have to check some of the ownership filing but June/July 2003 some wierd transfers went between Herve, Eric and Titus. This was in the 7 to 8 figure range of shares. :(

Hell I would love nothing more to get the company out of their hands.

Grrr

One-eye
 
The only people who are most likely to be able to buy off interplay and still sustain all its debts (loses) to be able to keep it would be the titan juggernaut likes of Microsoft and EA.

Who knows, maybe after vanguard Brad will call MS and say he wants to make FO:OL so they buy off IPLY for him (so I have fetish fantasies...).

Meh.
*shrugs*

Right now, I'll settle for a decent team picking up on the bladur's gate franchise.
After bioware I never stopped puking each time someone mentioned NWN, reading megatokyo, it happened all too much...
 
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