• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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      Buying and “streamlining” is a pretty common practice, yeah. Epic Songtradr bought them for the tech and userbase, not for their employees.

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      I remember hearing that Harmonix was also acquired by Epic Games and there was a lot of speculation of a collaboration to reboot Rock Band using the Bandcamp library.
      One of the lead developers at Harmonix was asked about this on Reddit and they only replied with an emphatic “No.”
      Seeing this now brings the bigger picture into focus.

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        One of the shit things about mergers is sometimes you get transferred to another division with a culture that doesn’t gel with you at all.