EA purchases Titanfall developer, Respawn Entertainment and their IP for 455 million currencies

[BrawlMan]

Not really, certainly not for a developer like Respawn which is too small to stand alone. People are acting like they were snatched away from some better publisher, but EA has had their hooks in them since the start.

Not snatched. More like groomed. That doesn't make it ok. It basically garuntees their future work will have a lot more strings attached to corporate meddling, bonus pay based on metacritic scores and general anti-consumer practices added to anything they now make. Whatever you thought of them before, they're only going to get worse from now on.

As if they would not have those put upon them regardless. Who would they go to instead? Activision?

I prefer Bethesda, if they chose different. Bethesda is better than the unholy Trinity (EA, Activision, & Ubisoft) by a huge margin. They may not be perfect either but they treated developers with more respect than EA and the other shit head companies. Hell, Sega would have been a better option by comparison.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I prefer Bethesda, if they chose different. Bethesda is better than the unholy Trinity (EA, Activision, & Ubisoft) by a huge margin. They may not be perfect either but they treated developers with more respect than EA and the other shit head companies. Hell, Sega would have been a better option by comparison.

As if they would not have those put upon them regardless. Who would they go to instead? Activision?

Are we all forgetting that Devolver Digital exists here?

 

[BrawlMan]

I prefer Bethesda, if they chose different. Bethesda is better than the unholy Trinity (EA, Activision, & Ubisoft) by a huge margin. They may not be perfect either but they treated developers with more respect than EA and the other shit head companies. Hell, Sega would have been a better option by comparison.

As if they would not have those put upon them regardless. Who would they go to instead? Activision?

Are we all forgetting that Devolver Digital exists here?

They are a great choice too. Like I said, anything is better than the Unholy Trinity.

 

[viranimus]

Why does every studio acquisition by EA feel like its tantamount to investing money in south park?