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EA trying to buy Take-Two

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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/24/take-two-rejects-ea-acquisition-proposal/

Well, EA is trying to buy take-two for 2 billion dollars, they said no. The article says the main reason why EA wants take-two is GTA 4. EA no doubt is going to keep trying until it gets its whale.

This is very very bad for gaming in my eyes. We have the GTA series, which except for maybe Gran turismo is arguably the best running series of games, for both quality and level of detail, GTA3, VC and SA which only got better with each GTA (scratch the spinoffs). I mean if EA takes over, I Think it will run the series into the ground with multiple rehashes (like we saw with the spinoffs) to keep milking money out of it, and the quality of product will tank.


I am only talking about one game, think of all the damage EA can do to the rest of take-two's lineup.
 
another sad day.

it could go the way of wing commander, dungeon keeper and a few others that ea gobbled up.
 
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/25/ea-offers-billion-two

The inq's take of the situation is interesting. They suggest that EA is making the info public as to its desire to aquire take-two for 60 something% more than the shares of the company are worth, that the shareholders will revolt against the company and fall prey to EA.

It sounds pretty on the money, but I hope to god that doesn't happen, because were going to have activision and EA producing 2/3rds of our games, their all going to be for the console, the ones that get ported look like SOF3 or slowed down like UT3, or noob proofed like COD2/4 (and 3)with the grenade indicator icon, or just crank out new titles w/o regards as to improving last years content that goes on with pretty much all EA sports games, look what happened with the need for speed series, NFS 2 was great, NFS high stakes was even better, I never played porshe unleashed, but I was under the understanding that it was good. Their was motor city online, it was going to be called NFS:motor city online, but I guess EA scrapped that. EA scrapped servers for MCO after 18 months, even tho It was the first of what you could call MMO Racing simulators.

EA had a hand in some of the best games ever, and their all turned into shit now. Now they have enough money to buy up their direct competition, and one way or another profit from others hard work, look at crytek, Far-cry was a great start for them, crysis could of been that too, but it got pushed out the door a bit too quickly in the name of holiday sales.
 
I sure hope EA doesn't acquire another company... please no.. most of their games become crap!
 
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