Rumor: Electronic Arts Is For Sale
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you should watch the Angry Video Game Nerd videosgmaverick019 said:
explaining LJN's badness is like explaining horrible controls
you have to see to understand
needless to say though, they're bad
very very bad
meh way too lazy, plus i'm not a fan of any videos like that. (i despise watching ZP/Jimquisition/extra credits/etc..)teh_Canape said:
I was just curous what LJN stood for, but i'll just take your word for it on the bad of badness.
I have to agree. EA is already the star example of the no-risk, franchise milking, creativity blocking, practices of the AAA industry, but they still at least have some (a very very small amount) idea of the games business.Prof.Beany said:
Having them be bought out by an equity firm, I think we'd see all of that stuff I just mentioned, but more of it.
The naivety here is adorable. More like the safe bet, non-risk games are the focus of the company. And pretty much everyone on this site seems to hate those games.Living Contradiction said:
For EA that means their sports games. The apparently hated Bioware games. Medal of Honor and Battlefield. A supposedly watered down Dead Space.
Note: These aren't my opinions. I still love Bioware's games, and buy the EA NHL game almost every year.
This can either be really good.....or really bad.
In the best case scenario, EA goes under and their good franchises get bought by other big developpers. Mass Effect and Dragon Age get bought by Bethesda, Konami gets to make a soccer game with the FIFA license, Dead Space goes to Frictional (HA as if) etc. EA loses, the internet wins.
The worst case scenario, the good and the bad franchises get burried forever, used to buy off laywers or something.
In the best case scenario, EA goes under and their good franchises get bought by other big developpers. Mass Effect and Dragon Age get bought by Bethesda, Konami gets to make a soccer game with the FIFA license, Dead Space goes to Frictional (HA as if) etc. EA loses, the internet wins.
The worst case scenario, the good and the bad franchises get burried forever, used to buy off laywers or something.
rightgmaverick019 said:
well you see, LJN was a company that made games for NES and later SNES/Genesis
thing is, they only made licensed games
and they were AWFUL, oh man were they terrible
only salvageable thing of them was usually the music
and Maximum Carnage (Separation Anxiety I think was the alternate name)
When there is a rumor that a public company is about to get bought for more than its value, its stock price rises since there is a chance that in the future you can sell your shares for more than what they are worth today.Ghonzor said:
This is one of the reason the stock market is so fucked up. It's all about short-term, nothing to do with investing on the merits as capitalism was designed for.
I want Richard Garriott and Chris Roberts to buy EA, just to make a point. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_14/87-The-Conquest-of-Origin]
I don't think there would be any change in that department.Eclpsedragon said:
OT: It's probably not going to happen, at least not entirely. They will probably sell off half of their stock or something.
While I think that EA being bought out could be the very best thing to happen to the industry in years, I very much doubt it's going to happen. As we saw with Vivendi's tries with Activion a few weeks ago, it's pretty much never gonna happen. Too expensive, too risky. Unfortunately, big investment companies just don't have faith in the video game industry, and don't want to go near it. It's a blessing and a curse, I guess.
If there's rumors floating around of a $20/share buyout on the horizon the price will rise because people will be hoping to buy it at the dirt cheap price and then double their investment when it finally does get bought out. Trust me, any rise at this point has nothing to do with them being a good company.Ghonzor said:
Cause if Bioware didn't need the money they wouldn't have sold out to EA. Zenimax or Bethesda would give them the money they needed to make great games like daAkalabeth said:
, KotOR, BG, and Mass Effect(minus the ending).Edit: OT: I really hope that EA gets bought out and then get drained and thrown away and then that person who bought them free the slaves(Bioware and anyone else like them).
If they were being bought by another game publisher, I'd agree, but the rumor is that they're being snatched up by an equity firmFalloutJack said: