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Originally Posted by Tactics
What they wanted is the potent assets like Little Busters and Heavens Burn Red.
Especially HBR which managed to gain loyalist in VN-oriented gacha market that once believed to be "No way you can compete with Fate Grand Order" area.
Whether they continue to release new non-gacha games depends on the deal.
Personally I'm just glad Baba get out and hope that the deal can warrant Key longevity in future; after what he did to Tales franchise I don't want to see his name again.
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I mean, I can kinda see Heavens Burn, but not too sure about their other IPs. Definitely classics, but I don't see them making anything out of it these days, unless they plan to make gacha games separately for each game. Also, I heard Yurippe appeared in Heavens Burn recently, so they probably want to save the nostalgic goggles of Maeda stuff for Heavens Burn
As for Baba Hideo, I just want to note that he has been long ousted from Bandai Namco since 2016, when he moved to Square Enix, and was ousted again in 2019 and has not really appeared in public since then