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FDev have been real quiet and the silence is ominous, especially when CMs were talking up their communications for 2022. They have missed development update deadlines and still remained very quiet only to poke their head up to acknowledge how quiet they've been then going quiet again.

Another week has gone by with no live streams and little communication, leaving the community to only speculate on the reasons.

I came across this article as I was searching for any news apart from an arbitary forum post and came across this comment:

Nichiporchik said this shift to subscriptions will also force gaming companies to adapt their business models towards attracting top talent and intellectual property as firms ‘competed for people’s time rather than their money’.
This ‘war for content’ is also driving the wave of takeovers in the sector, according to Neil Campling, a telecoms, media and tech analyst at Mirabaud Equity Research.
He noted that large technology firms were finding it ‘quicker to buy rather than build’ and that the recent spate of acquisitions was just the start.
A London-listed firm thought to be a potential target is Frontier Developments, which makes popular games based on the Jurassic Park movie franchise as well as its sci-fi spaceship simulator Elite Dangerous.
The company’s shares have fallen by nearly 56 per cent in the last 12 months following a series of profit warnings, sparking speculation that it could be ripe for a takeover swoop.

To me this just adds more speculation, but could the reason for all the silence and lack of direction be because the company is in the process of being acquired by a larger firm?