Comments on: The Fall of Harmonix https://www.breakmanx.com/the-fall-of-harmonix/ Twenty Years of Gaming. Still Arguing About Halo. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: maul42 https://www.breakmanx.com/the-fall-of-harmonix/#comment-8 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:38:07 +0000 http://padinga.com/padinga2011/2011/01/05/the-fall-of-harmonix/#comment-8 I dunno if this article is right. Viacom sold the company for $50 + the $150 Million tax break you mention. So, in essence, they sold the company for $150 Million and fifty dollars.

Also, did you notice who bought the Harmonix division from Viacom? It was Harmonix LLC. They bought themselves, and are now a private division. All the guys at Harmonix seem pretty happy about the sale on the Rock Band forums, so I really don’t see this story as them getting ‘dumped’.

And, if nothing else, the heads of Harmonix all got $300 Million bonuses from Viacom at the beginning of ’09 off the back-end sales of Rock Band (if reports are to be believed), so I won’t cry for them anytime soon… or ever, really.

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