The end has come!

[hansari]

KANE LIVES no more.... [http://kotaku.com/5401542/rumor-eas-cuts-include-cc-team-pandemic-maxis--more]

They are starting to specify exactly who they ended up firing...and it says they are kicking out the team behind Command & Conquer....

a piece of me just died...

What is Joseph D. Kucan suppose to do now?!!!

Stare at the ceiling?!!!!

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Rosebud.

Oh wait, wrong Kane. That sucks though.

 

[Robert632]

well i never played the games, but as a gamer, i knew they made good rts', so many will miss them.

 

[Amnestic]

Sources tell Kotaku that the team working on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was warned of its fate today, with almost the entire team expected to be let go after the real-time strategy game ships some time in 2010.

Which was meant to be their last one anyway, as memory serves.

 

[Siris]

Cool picture

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

It is a sad day for the armies of NOD
Farewell my brave leader ;-;

 

[Sassafrass]

Never played C&C games but I know that they were considered the best RTSes on PC and console.
As for Joesph, I'll hire him to stand around and just look at the ceiling and scare my mates shitless.
T'will be fun.

 

[hansari]

Sources tell Kotaku that the team working on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was warned of its fate today, with almost the entire team expected to be let go after the real-time strategy game ships some time in 2010.

Which was meant to be their last one anyway, as memory serves.

If they are being kicked out, then they aren't exactly being given the opportunity to come up with a new IP now are they? So yes, it is still a tragedy in my eyes...

Kicking out Westwood...I'm sure EA Los Angelas will enjoy continuing the Red Alert IP Westwood created...

 

[LeonLethality]

Cool picture

I imagined the penguins saying that due to your avatar and it cracked me up

 

[Spaghetti]

I thought the next C&C game was to be the last one anyway? If so...I'm unimpressed.

As much as I've like the series over the years, it began to get worse once EA assimilated Westwood and began producing the game itself.
I refer to the Red Alert series as evidence. 1+2 were my favorite RTS games, but RA3 was truly awful.
It wasn't quiet as bad with C&C3 (Micheal Ironside softened the blow)...but, I'm kind of glad it's ending before things got any worse...

 

[hansari]

As much as I've like the series over the years, it began to get worse once EA assimilated Westwood and began producing the game itself.

I refer to the Red Alert series as evidence. 1+2 were my favorite RTS games, but RA3 was truly awful.

Cause Red Alert 1+2 were made by Westwood, 3 was plucked from their hands and given to another studio called EA Los Angelas...

Which is great...cause C&C dies while the other IP Westwood made gets butchered by some other developers...

 

[clericwithnolife31]

he'll be back.. just like kerrigan

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Never fails. The only character I don't want to die in a hail of bullets dies, mostlikely in a hail of bullets, due to the fact that EA is cheap. Never fuckin fails.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Ach, crivens.

But if what other people are saying is true, about it being the last game anyway... is really that bad?

And I have to say, EA destroyed the franchise.
So issan not all bad.

 

[UberMore]

By the look of his Wiki page, it seems as if EA have done quite alot of work to cut this guy out of the system: they're shutting down almost all the teams he's ever worked in.
I've only ever played the Red Alert side of Command and Conquer, but now that a great hero (villain) of the series is falling from power, I may look him up and experience his Wrath.

 

[Lullabye]

Dick move, EA, dick move......

 

[Terrik]

At first glance I thought it was Rob Halford..

 

[DrunkWithPower]

So all hopes of Battlefront III can die now? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......b.

 

[Skeleon]

Sources tell Kotaku that the team working on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was warned of its fate today, with almost the entire team expected to be let go after the real-time strategy game ships some time in 2010.

Which was meant to be their last one anyway, as memory serves.

Right. Let them finish the series and then move on to other projects.
EA isn't the right environment for anything but sequel-making, anyway.
This might not be such a bad thing for the C&C team.