I'm sure they are feeling none too smart... them and their HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.
Heres hoping that Bioware/Pandemic get to keep enough creative freedom that their quality doesn't drop.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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So, EA Games just bought Bioware/Pandemic for $620 million dollars. You may recognize them from titles like Knights of the Old Republic, or Mercenaries 1 & 2. EA games hasn't been doing so hot lately, so a lot of people think that they were pretty stupid to allow themselves to be bought. One guy on Slashdot responded to that with:
Heres hoping that Bioware/Pandemic get to keep enough creative freedom that their quality doesn't drop.
Heres hoping that Bioware/Pandemic get to keep enough creative freedom that their quality doesn't drop.
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Well, since you turned off comment moderation I guess I can say anything I want here now. Including something entirely unrelated....
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The problems with developing games after being bought by EA isn't much different than developing games for a publishing company. I don't think their creative process is going to change that much because of it. What might change is key designers leaving purely out of principle, like what happened when Blizzard became a division of Vivendi Games.
The only thing we really attribute to EA as being evil and a black hole of innovation was their EA Spouse incident and their yearly releases of EA sports games. They do have some winners such as the Sims and Battlefield, so I don't think they are that much different than other publishers.
I, like most geeks, still wish EA would die though.
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