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Don’t get me wrong, EA have published good games like, for example, Battlefield 1942 and the Lord of the Rings games….. [/quote:3184840a8b]
Exactly…published, not developed, EA is the Video Game Industries Leech, as you said Nooptical it acquires companies only to suck them dry and spew out ‘crap’. Come on guys the only thing anyway near crediable towards EA is the fact that they have brought gaming to a more mainstream audience. The LotR licence was put to good use, which I presume was a surprise to many, and now they have acquired the Burnout license i can almost be certain that we will be seeing annual updates along with Fifa, Madden, NBA, and James Bond(note how EA are currently feeding off of Rares success in the late 90’s, their marketing boy’s are clearly trying to site this as a sequel…..get real, it will suck balls and everyone knows!)
But back to the article, the fact that EA now have ownership of the Renderware platform is ‘bad news’, especailly if the report is correct. I imagine the next year will be a make or break for some companies, with alligiences being forged and so forth, before we know it we’ll have another ‘Microsoft’ on our hands and the games industry will turn into a monotonous money generator for EA and Microsoft with even the biggest of Japanese companies falling, a bit like the Sith versus the Republic really.
*sigh*