Well, people, it's official, quality videogames are on their way out. EA is buying Take Two Games for 2 billion dollars. This means that Grand Theft Auto, Bioshock, The Elder Scrolls Series, Fallout, and various other critically acclaimed series are going to be owned by EA from now on. They're gonna be mass-produced, with all the originality sucked out of them.

The worst part is that the head of EA is being a complete pocky about it. He says "wee won't change the way they make games, wee'll just sell them" as if Take Two's games don't sell without EA. Last I checked, GTA: San Andreas topped even Halo 2 when it came out, and Bioshock sold so many copies on its first 2 days that it crashed Irrational Games' and Steam's servers. THem saying that they'll "actually sell the games" is just their way of saying they want to cash in on the GTAIV phenomenon. Bastards.

Here are some of the news sources. Sorry, they're from Gamespot, but that's where I heard it first. I'll try to find some other sources.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/g...id=6186646
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/g...id=6186638
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/g...id=6186639
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/g...id=6186673

(This post was last modified: 25/02/2008 06:56 PM by Azumi.)

i fudgeing hate EA, if they buyout Take-Two I'll kill someone just to please myself, and jack thompson, but the matter won't be because i saw it in a videogame it will be because i hate EA and all it stands for, sure they have good games, but my favorite titles have been ruined because of it, like burnout, it was a great game without EA and then they buy Criteron and the game turns into a cheap upgrade with SSX elements, i hate EA and i will kill someone dammit

whew i hope ubisoft has something planned

beaner2k6 Wrote:i fudgeing hate EA, if they buyout Take-Two I'll kill someone just to please myself, and jack thompson, but the matter won't be because i saw it in a videogame it will be because i hate EA and all it stands for, sure they have good games, but my favorite titles have been ruined because of it, like burnout, it was a great game without EA and then they buy Criteron and the game turns into a cheap upgrade with SSX elements, i hate EA and i will kill someone dammit

Get your gun ready, it's already in the works.

Sure, EA are poo poo from that perspective, but people keep buying the games [that's probably because there aren't enough GOOD games anyway]

Yea, what did happen to the genius of the game of the past?

People are running out of ideas, and the same applies to Movies now too.

At least games like Portal and Spore are relatively original.

But fear not, I do believe that Games will Rise again, in the form of the Wii 2!!!!!

Don't screw over Starcraft 2, and I'll be happy.

I don't play much games these days. If I head something like this 4 years ago, I probably would've cared a lot. Now I'm indifferent.