it'll never work. they knew it. and now they are going the underhand way to buy up shares / investors? Denying they want take two for the sports titles...

the GTA franchise has survived thus far (DMA [psygnosis], sony [post-psygnosis], take two. I doubt it would survive EA. Or is this the way of the industry?

No bones about EA, but do they really need to own everything? And when they cannot, why the underhand take over?

Big fish eat little fish to survive.. . NOM NOM NOM

EA is becoming the Microsoft of the gaming world, no doubt.

I BIG, U LITTLE, GET IN MEH BELLEH!

EA likes the power trip when it's on it's little takeover spree...

Last I heard its 26 per share

Take Two's own majority shareholders unloaded the bulk of their shares and are suing the T2 Exec team because they keep voting themselves massive redundancy packages as a poison pill for EA. That exec team, by the way, is in power because of a hostile takeover.

Why do you doubt R* would survive? EA isn't stupid, they'll let them keep making GTA games as long as they want.

What I want to know is; why havent' I seen a new Max Payne game in forever? Why has it taken so long to make progress on the Mafia sequel?

how dare you try to defend the evil machine doc!!!

ea's new strategy lately has been buy a good company and then support them and let them do their thing. i know here at mythic its been nothing but positive

Yea, I feel like EA has been pretty decent lately. Maybe its necessary for most dev studios to be funded by a massive conglomerate like EA in order for us to support our un-profitable bussiness.

I have to agree with Doc Rob and Rhinokey, my coworkers...EA is not an evil empire like so many people make them out to be. I'm quite happy working for them and have nothing really bad to say about my experiences working with them thus far. It's funny how people harp on them being evil or bad and wanting to own everything and then destroy what they own. It's really rediculous and uninformed. Like said above the management team at EA now seem genuine in their attempts to allow the individual development houses exist and do their own thing while supporting them in every way they can. They definitely seem to be quite generous in their support of EA Mythic. I don't think it would be any different for those coming from Take 2 if brought into the fold. They've definitely not done anything bad to our new groups at Pandemic and Bioware from what I've seen and been told.

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Yes, but they are attempting to buy a whole <u>publisher</u> in this case and not just an independent development studio as they did in Mythic's case.

Competition is <u>good</u> for capitalism; EA buying up strong publishers, thereby eliminating the competition, is a very bad thing for our industry no matter how you look at it.

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At least there is one glorious upside. Our industry is one of those select few that is more stable than all others economically.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=17874

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Yea, no doubt the first thing on their agenda would be to screw over one of the largest and most profitable franchises around.

Honestly, Take-Two is known for having some pretty terrible management, as far as the company itself goes, this may be a good thing. Now of course, in the bigger picture it sucks whenever a company as large as EA starts eating up major competitors. So yea, it sucks, but whatever. :P

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that wouldn't explain take twos take over, because they are hugely profitable. Rockstar is just one of the few dev houses under their wing.

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that wouldn't explain take twos take over, because they are hugely profitable. Rockstar is just one of the few dev houses under their wing.

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Yea, certainly. The take two stuff is obviously just EA destroying competition. However, I do feel that it's amazing that publishers are able to fund dev studios as much as they do when so much money is lost. Isn't that odd? I mean, I'm pretty sure most games dont make money.