Here’s the official press the release of the acquisition.

During a conference call, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that they would pursue a Tom Clancy MMO.

“On MMOs, the investment is really high. So we need to maximize the revenue. With the royalties we had to pay, it was another barrier to creating a Tom Clancy MMO because the original investment was diminished by that. Having no fees, it’s going to give us a full return, so we’ve really decided now to go for an MMO on the Clancy name, which is big.

You have Splinter Cell, Sam Fisher, the Rainbow Sixes, the GRAWs and all the other new creations we have. So this will make that MMO product a really big product. We already have the technology to create MMOs. We have lots of games in the Clancy franchise that are already multiplayer, so to create an MMO, we need to have larger teams to actually spend the time to create it. It’s all a question of decision and we have the know-how, so we can go for it.

We can’t be very specific now, because there are many ways to get in the MMO business.

An MMO would cost between $40 and $50 million.”

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