Ubisoft has announced that it will purchase Owlient for an amount they aren’t revealing. Owlient is a successful free-to-play developer with two million active users playing games like the online horse breeding title Howrse.
“It’s a fast growing and profitable company with a very good technology that we can exploit in the rest of the group. What we buy is not only the profit they will make but also the accumulation of know how,” said Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft CEO. “We have three pillars, which are high definition, casual and online games, so we are booting the three pillars so that we can grow in those three types of games and customers. We learn a lot from those different pillars to enrich the others. So what we learn in online we are using in high definition to improve the experience,”
“Joining the Ubisoft team will allow us to accelerate our international business and to expand our expertise and our games to new platforms,” said Owlient CEO Olivier Issaly. “It also lets us integrate our proven online services architecture with Ubisoft s so that we can help grow their brands online. We are proud of what our team has accomplished and confident that joining Ubisoft will allow us to continue that success.”
Source: GamesIndustry.biz