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Another good company has bit the dust.

 

 

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This has to be the greatest news in gaming history, if your name is Volourn.

 

Considering EA's track-record with acquiring game-studios, treatment of employees (=lawsuits) and general quality of their games, they have a lot to prove with this. Look forward to more games than before with shorter development times, less substance and maybe a "good" game every 3-4 years or so. But they will probably sell a lot.

 

//EDIT: Oh, if i had more money, i would buy a lot EA-stock today.

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What a bunch of crybabies. Pronouncing a company dead, minutes after a buyout.

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I died a little inside.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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Eh, EA as an evil entity is soooooooo 2 years ago.

 

Huh? Have they started to cure cancer lately? Companies aren't 'evil' or 'good' in the world of business, unless they have something illegal as their main agenda. Anyhoo, maybe they have changed their business model on how to deal with developers and given them more space for their creativity, but sure DICE hasn't been up to much 'diverse' since 2004.

"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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Wait.

 

There are sports gaming sites? Aren't those two things total opposites?

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Am I the only one that finds it weird that Riccitiello left EA, went to Elevation to buy Bioware and Pandemic, then went back to EA which then buys Bioware and Pandemic from Elevation? If I was a little paranoiac I'd say Bioware & Pandemic didn't want EA in the picture, so Riccitiello made a deal with Elevation so they'd buy them, then sell them to EA for a huge profit.

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Just to re-fresh people's memories, EA has killed the following companies:

 

- Westwood

- Bullfrog

- Maxis

- Origin

- Microprose

 

It is sad that the employee's of Bioware will be added to this list. This is truly horrible news.

 

Ah i miss Westwood, Bullfrog, and Microprose...how i loved those companies.

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Just to re-fresh people's memories, EA has killed the following companies:

 

- Westwood

- Bullfrog

- Maxis

- Origin

- Microprose

 

It is sad that the employee's of Bioware will be added to this list. This is truly horrible news.

Eh, Herve Caen killed Westwood. You're a little confused. Like, details-don't-matter confused. Osama-reads-the-Koran confused.

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