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[Uriel_the_Flame]

@Laubrani

prices

This might help explain some of them:

No bonus money for CCP! Deal sits at $225 Millions

The purchase price that the South Korean game company Pearl Abyss pays for CCP decreases by 47% from what it could amount to - from 425 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 54 billion ISK, to 225 million dollars, almost 29 billion ISK. The reason is that performance-related criteria in the operation did not work. Pearl Abyss bought CCP in 2018 and 225 million dollars were paid out immediately, but 200 million dollars were conditional on CCP’s performance in 2019 and 2020. I blame …

Of course do your own research, this is just a pointer in a possible direction.