EA on another development company spending spree

"Electronic Arts Inc. sealed a deal with private-equity firm Elevation Partners to buy a videogame-development company for $860 million, bolstering its pipeline of action, adventure and role-playing titles with 10 yet-to-be released games."

"Elevation Partners will sell its VG Holdings Corp., the parent company of game makers BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios, which has produced hit titles such as "Destroy All Humans!" The deal -- the largest in EA's history -- includes two new games generating buzz in the industry, "Mass Effect" and "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames."

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Bioware are the creaters of the well-known Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Night's series

There is only one hope. EA would leave Bioware alone and do their own thing and at their own pace. Then EA publishing just publishes it to make lots of money.

Then EA is going to ruin the quality of Bioware games and put out large quantities without no innovation.

We need to burn down EA! Who's with me?

I really hope Bioware is happy seeing as how they just sold there soul.anime-2k3

Bioware had no say in the sale. Their parent company sold them out.

don't buy games made by EA or by a developer EA bought.rock_solid

QFT.. EA is notorious for not supporting games they make.. example: MOHAA .. one patch and that was all then they start pushing out expansions.. Spearhead.. Breakthrough.. Pacific Assault (full game).. etc.. with one patch each.... this is the same for The Sims... expansion after expansion.. one patch here and there.. but as for support .. nada..

Blizzard is way more supportive of its games as is Valve.. constantly releasing patches.. I would buy a Valve, Id, or Blizzard game before I would ever buy an EA game..

Companies like Westwood (Original C&C), Origin (Wing Commander, Strike Commander, etc), Maxis, Dynamix, have all been bought out by EA.. small yet powerful companies that have been chewed up..

But alas, we gamers are a greedy bunch and will buy the next Battlefield or MOH game that hits the shelves.. not to mention the EA Sports games..

If I recall the last great game EA made was with Fade to Black.. (I'm talking about EA the original company without the "buy outs")

MOH was a good series but they killed it through lack of support.. If they hadn't, I would still be playing MOHAA multi, and the clan that I was in would not have shut down.. 2yrs of my life were stripped away due to EA not supporting their games.. I curse EA.. and all it stands for!

Die EA Die