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Well, I just finished reading the article on EA walking away from Take-Two Interactive this week. The only thing I could do was breath a sigh of relief. Even though Take-Two's stock tanked in the following hours, (and our stock market is bad enough) I think Take-Two's decision was the right one. Not only was it a good way to keep the Grand Theft Auto and other franchises from being ruined by EA's corporate greed, it was a symbolic victory for other, smaller gaming companies.

Take-Two's decision to refuse EA's multi-billion dollar offer was indeed the right choice. After Criterion was eaten alive by EA "back in the day", the gigantic corporation has been churning out Burnout games with less and less quality, and supposedly with little or no input from the smaller developer. With Take-Two 'taking' a stand (no pun intended?) other companies will see that EA is not an almighy god, and cannot just muscle their way into any house they see fit. Hopefully, EA will learn from this failure and keep it's large, Madden-sized nose in it's own business where it belongs.

Hopefully, EA will take the couple of billion dollars (!) and put it where it belongs, like on quality control for their games. (I'm lookin' at you, Black and Battlefield)