"Hero Glory" was actually less competitive than the MOBA games currently popular on the market, and it had little of a fan base. It was an obscure little game from an equally obscure small company, and the market held little hope for it.
Its only advantage over Hong Bo back then was that its developer was already a fully functioning game company, with an established staff and technical foundation, as well as enough funding to finish developing the game.
However, the game had its strengths, too. Its advantage lay precisely in being less competitive than similar games. The barrier to entry was very low, meaning that even players who had never encountered anything like it could get started easily. That made it far better suited to being a commercial game than its more niche counterparts with their high barriers to entry.
Of course, Xia Xu had already glimpsed the game's success through Jian Xiaohao's fate profile, so he had even fewer concerns about any of that. All he needed to consider was how to invest and whether he had sufficient funds.
The developer of "Hero Glory" would certainly look for a way to monetize the game. Any company claiming it developed games for dreams rather than money was talking absolute nonsense. Even if the boss did not need to eat, the employees did.
However, buying out the game outright was hardly realistic. After all, the other party was a game company already on track. It could simply follow the traditional approach of partnering with distribution platforms and licensing operators. There was no need to sell its game to someone else entirely.
Perhaps that was only true if the offer was not high enough, but spending too much money and tying up too much capital was not something Xia Xu wanted