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Industry giant and evil overlord Electronic Arts reported this morning that it had finished its wheeling and dealing with the Federal Trade Commission concerning the takeover of Take Two Interactive.
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Twizlex
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Oh my god, I hate EA so much...
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gta is finished its going to be crap from now
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Say it ain't so...
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Statix
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It's amazing how much EA sucks.
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Gerard Way
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1.6 - @ N*gger N*gger N*gger
I laughed. But thats naughty, shh.
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1.7 - Yeah, with a handle like that, you're bound to go places...
... and if we're all lucky, it'll be REAL hot when you get there...
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The burnout series actually got better when EA took over though
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MIAMIFROST
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1.10 - I dont know who I hate more.........
Microsoft or EA !! Fu*kin greedy bastards. EA used to care about games and gamers. Now they are so big , they just care about more and more $$$. The more $ you make , the more you want.
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Gerard Way
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1.12 - @disagrees..
Calm down ya crazy bunch of liberals.
I'm Black. Douchebags.
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Great n0w the gaming industry is going to become like communist Russia. And the most F*&k up part is that its starts on my Birthday =(
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Why is GTA dead though? Aren't Rockstar going to be free next year?
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Enigma_2099
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... someone disagreed with me... I wonder whoooooo....
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1.16 - Oh Sorry the purpose of a company is to make a limited amount of money.
no EA or MS would just want to make money no matter wat, if EA bought take 2 than there no more comp as said in the link for any sports game, so people would have to buy EA's games since there's no other football or baseball game to buy except there's. And its not greedy is call entrepreneurship and that's how America and probably the world works
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1.17 - @Gerard Way
You know, if Microsoft can ban tags like GayGamer, and RichardGaywood...
And nobody ASKED you what color you were... I'm black too... what's your point?
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VaeVictus
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2 - The "Banner of d0uchebaggery"
is indeed strong w/ EA. (and UBISoft)
Lol @ the article. Let us hope that somehow, EA's attempts fail.
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This is going to be sad if/when this happens.
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Lord Vader
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EA = SKYNET
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4 - EA?
But they make some of the best games, including sports games, mini-games, shovelware, generic FPS, you name it, there is some of the best garbage for everyone. I don't think that is bad for gaming.
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I don't understand why the FTC can't step in and stop this horsesh** from happening. This is complete and total anti-competition in the sports videogame industry. They need to stop this before it's too late, for the love of all that's good and just!
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Twizlex
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Couldn't agree with you more... because n4g won't let me :(
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I just hope we don't see an EA gaming console in the future.
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that is also my biggest concern,
ea has so many studios and publishers bought they could easily make 10+ exclusives a year of EA branded games, for a ea console.
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That's a recurring fear of mine whenever their little evil empire expands. Do not want.
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fine with me...I dont buy their games anyway
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Neither do I, but what happens when they consume a company you do buy games from?
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you know, i wouldn't mind.
EA games would be exclusive to teh EA console,hence all of the trite that they usually deliver will dissapear from the sshelves where the good games are kept.
i mean,
1. EA makes console with exclusive EA titles
2. console bombs
3. EA dies
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!
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stage 1: steel underpants
Stage 2: (gnomes blink their eyes in confusion)
stage 3: PROFIT!
i love that epidode...
...."hey Matty, whats stage 2?!?"
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yes that would not be cool at all
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7 - Screw EA
I still can't believe that they are allowed to have an exclusive license with the NFL to pretty much bar any other company from making a football game. They have single handedly ruined my love for football games ever since they started spewing out the same game with updated rosters since 2005.
Plus, every other game from EA sucks (except for NHL'08), Army of Two was the last straw for me.
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I remember Madden titles getting damn near perfect scores year after year until the NFL license was exclusively purchased by EA. The next Madden titles after ended up getting progressively worse.
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I totally agree with you , EA almost makes the same thing with us ( soccer ) fans ... but in better way they let us enjoy the Italian teams at least .
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Hold on, this doesn't mean that if this goes through that there won't be any more NBA2k?!!!!!!
If that's the case, no more basketball games for me, I swear it!
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Why no, you will get 2k games .. only they will be as shi##y as the other EA sports titles and will surely release in a yearly mini updated full prize form.
Competition on the sports games market has hereby ceased to exist.
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Or maybe, if EA was smart, they would have the NBA2k guys develop the basketball games for them and just call it Live instead.
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EA sucks @ss
if they start making a GTA game come out every year i swear to god
EA milk ganme series way to much
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9.1 - EA keeps pushin it
EA just pushes the developers to release a game at a said date, so you can expect the next GTA game to be released even if it has some bugs because EA says so, then they'll put out a few patches a few months later after they've raked in the cash.
This now means that 3 of my favourite companies have been taken by EA:
Westwood
Bullfrog
Take Two
Who's next?
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Everyone is next, it's just a matter of time.
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Greed! I hate it. Think about the board members of EA. They're already mega rich, but they aren't satisfied. They're always on the look-out for the next company they can snatch up to bring them even more money. When is enough, enough? And it's not just EA. It's EVERY big corporation. Why can't people just be content with being mega rich? What drives people to crave more? It sucks!
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10.1 - reminds me of a c. montgomery burns quote
i dont remember the exact wording of it but it went something like this, i have more money than i could ever spend and everything anyone could ever want, but id trade it all...for a little more
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11 - Petition?
Someone please start an online petition against EA and its takeovers, I would be the first to sign, I personally don't know how or I would,
2k football was on its way to be better than madden until EA signed the exclusivity deal and fucckked over everyone. Now they'll do it again
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Do you honestly believe that EA will change their business strategies because some videogame fans starts a petition?
"Hey guys! I just got informed about this petition, the deal is off."
L O L
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Assuming EA doesn't try to get exclusive deals with the NBA and MLB, they have at least some competition with Sony's baseball and basketball brands. However, I see those dying within the next few years.
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they also have competition in the soccer market with PES from Konami.
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Silogon
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Maybe EA can finally bury the long dead corpse of the GTA franchise now.
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I wouldn't say GTA is dead at all, but EA's involvement I'm pretty sure would be powerful enough to kill it.
And I didn't disagree with you, just so you know. I don't think the GTA franchise is dead, but I was expecting more from GTA4.
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1.3 - I Disagreed with you JUDAS!!!
'After being reviled for almost 2,000 years as the embodiment of treachery, Judas Iscariot's side of the story was finally published yesterday. Thanks to a newly discovered gospel in Judas's name, we now know what his excuse was:
Micro$oft made me do it.'
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PLAYSTATION®3規格ソフトウェアのゲー ム 中にXMB™ ;)
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-Cuz u one of them Brain dead Xbot crack babys i keep talking about...
"All games on the 360 by EA are fine."
-Since the RROD 2 is a Crappy Easy to program PC yea sure they are.
" Its bc your crappy PS3 takes over twice the amount of time to tweak code to make it work."
-Since Playstation 3 is NOT A CRAPPY PC..But a NEW FANGLED PICE OF VIDEO GAMING HARDWARE REATARD it takes time...and Thats why u make on The Superior not the inferior first..
"Blame Sony not EA."
- No ill blame EA like they deserve for being a Lazy to learn FAt Money grubbing gaming Conglomerate.
"Bring on the disagrees you morons. You know I'm right."
-And J.W Bush was a Good President....
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Oh dear God...tell me that's not true.
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It's true, not that big of a blow in my eyes. I thought the last GTA was starting a downhill turn anyway. San Andreas was so much fun, and this one wasn't worth the wait. This will be a blow to the industry if they keep this up however. If they buy Atlus or Squeenix, I'm out of gaming for good. :(
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Yes, Atlus falling to EA would be a travesty. I think they are one of the best developers in the business.
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EA is a horrible company, yes. But they are pretty money smart.
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That's just messed up.
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By money-smart, I think you me greedy and self-serving.
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add them to the lists of people killing videogames and free speech
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This guy got hit on the head hard since he was a baby, and you know what he still act like a baby poor thing, Shaking head*
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no company is pure evil....they re all in there to make money ...all of em...sony, ms, ea, konami.....the question is...how do they achieve their objective...do they BUY the competition and shaft the consumer with inferior products ? (lookin at you ms and ea), or do they innovate and come up with something extraordinary which is both good for the consumer and the company (apples ipod, sony s psone etc)
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8.1 - LOL, you know what's so ironic?
MS fanboys reacting to this news by saying it's bad for no competition and how EA has ruined gaming. If you do a comparison of the acquisitions by each company, MS makes EA look like a bunch of amateurs.
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Yeah MS with its limited underpowered hardware, no next gen disc media, no standard harddrive. GTA could have been a much better game if had been PS3 exclusive. Pitty we will never experience a true Next Gen GTA with this EA take over. Might as well keep it on the crap box.
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