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Ubisoft buys up Tom Clancy rights, announces Clancy MMO

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 20th 2008 5:15PM

Publisher Ubisoft sealed a mega-deal today for the rights to the Tom Clancy brand name to "use in video games and ancillary products including related books, movies and merchandising products." No price tag was affixed publicly to the deal, but Newsweek spoke with Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter who guesses it was somewhere around $100 million.

GameDaily reports that in a follow up conference call to the announcement, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated the company is looking to make a Tom Clancy MMO. Guillemot also guessed the MMO would cost around $50 million to make. Yes, but will it have the prerequisite elves and dwarves in there to become a phenomenon?

Read -- Ubisoft Locks Up All Tom Clancy Rights, Plans for MMO
Read -- Newsweek talks to Pachter

Tags: BreakingNews, clancy, rights, tom-clancy, tomclancy, ubisoft

Reader Comments (42)

Maybe it will be an MMO where the gameplay revolves around writing crappy mainstream best sellers Ala Tom Clancy.

Ouch.
I never read any of his novels, but other than this, all I have heard are good things.

I have never played a Tom Clancy game though. So I don't have a very valid opinion anyway.

Have you READ any of his novels? He writes a compelling story. So, yeah, his books are very straight forward, but then again he doesn't need to write like William Faulkner.

Meh.

Can I make a Nintendo fanboy comment? =p

Just GO FOR IT!

Ok samfish =p

If Nintendo someday release an MMO with all the Nintendo characters, it will kill even WoW.

Just imagine all the Nintendo universe combined... =)

Blast!

Nah, that wouldn't be a threat to WoW.

PokeMMO, however, would throw WoW to the ground, stomp violently on it's wind pipe and proceed to piss in it's open, gasping maw.

I would like a Nintendo property only if the game was titled and based around the concept of:

Nintendo Properties: Rape Island

Samfish...

PokeMMO... that would be a big threat for WoW =p

Yeah, a nintendo MMO would be great. Instead of having diverse characters, we'll all be using cookie-cutter Mii's and won't be able to chat using text or voice. Instead we'll have to use pre-selected mommy-approved phrases and emoticons. heh..

haha...

As if Nintendo would put an MMO on the PC.

PokeMMOn = awesome. Clancy MMO = huh?

What in the world would a Clancy MMO be like? What an unnatural fit! Seems like another soulless (and late) attempt to jump on the MMO bandwagon in the fool's hope to ride Warcraft's golden coattails. A PokeMMOn game makes immediate sense from a gameplay perspective and you can think of all kinds of possibilities and new ground for it to tread, but a Clancy MMO? Are you going to go out and kill 10 terrorists and collect their headbands as proof?

I can hear EA's drool dripping on the floor already.

Hmm...I'm fine as long as this doesn't bring a half-assed shooter with garbage controls to the Wii: see Call of Duty 3, Medal of Honor: Vanguard.

What I'm really hoping for is a real shooter on the Wii with real controls, similar to Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 or MP3: Corruption. If only...

WOW!

I am just shocked on them sinking that much money into this with it being so far into his francises.

That being said, Ubi, I had this idea about a team of cops who shoot people for whatever reason at various places around the world because of...cold war issues, yeah, thats it. Can I have a few million please?

All your name are belong to us.

All your quote are belong to 4 years ago.

So it's an MMO where everyone rolls rogues?

Seriously, who would play an MMO full of Nintendo fanboys?

Me =)

Sorry Fernando - it would be mindnumbing. It also would never dent WoW. You underestimate the PC gamers.

ahahahahaha

I think a Nintendo MMO would own, but they'd have to do it right. I don't think it'd hurt WOW though, because the games have two different audiences.

so um yeah nice tom clancy doubt i'd play it

A naruto mmo or a pokemmo that are more than just point and click or lock on target and hit hotkey, but actually action mmo's would run WoW in to the ground.. but we will see it? ...no..

I really doubt they would decide to change the pokemon formula, they have been using it for quite a while...

I got bored after Crystal, but yah, if they decide to change the way of playing it and it becomes more of an action game, then Im all up for it.

A Pokemon MMO would be crazy. Basically make it like the Gameboy/DS games, but in a huge 3D world.

I'd play an MMO that allowed you to kill elves and dwarves with modern firearms.

How little these games have come since Rogue Spear...pity.

Rogue Spear kicked ass.

The current "Rainbow SIX" games don't even have 6 people...

Why is noone talking about what a crappy idea turning a stealth game into an mmo is?

Oh... because it isn't a Splinter Cell mmo... thank god, but it will still be shite.

Booo.

How about a cool MMO idea?

Current count : 2

"WTF" springs to mind.

for a PokeMMo couldn't they just make servers dedicated to a younger audience then have servers for adults? Just a thought.

So...what will this actually be about? MMOFPS? I mean... really, what are they gonna do to it?

I'd go for a Pokemon MMO just to annoy others by asking if they liek mudkipz.

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