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GTA under EA be the same or destroyed?

talkplaystation.com writes:

"We all feared that if EA took over Take 2 they would destroy GTA forever just like they have done with takeovers in the past. I think that EA would have completely destroyed GTA by trying to make it 'their' game and just lose that GTA touch altogether. It wouldn't be GTA at all. No one can do it as good as Rockstar."

"What's your view on this? Do you think EA had the potential to destroy the GTA series by making it 'their' game?"

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TheDeadMetalhead - 598 days 15 hours ago

1 - YEAH!!!

If EA takes over Take Two and Rockstar then GTA is screwed! =( =( =(

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Winter47th - 598 days 15 hours ago

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If it was up to EA, they'd release GTA IV with only 3 radio stations, 2 weapon types, 3 vehicles with the same skins only different colors, make the story 85% shorter/lamer/suck assier, the rest is DLC.

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znu - 598 days 9 hours ago

1.3 - GTA under EA be the same or destroyed?

why ask such a self explainitory question

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nbsmatambo - 598 days 9 hours ago

1.4 - DESTROYED...

They will release a GTA every year with few minor updates *cough* madden *cough*

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barom - 598 days 6 hours ago

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The game will definitately be smaller and no where near as ambitious. Take Two wasn't afraid to give R* the investment they wanted. EA will be.

Hopefully R* people will leave and form a new studio (kinda like what Infinity Ward did)

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Breakfast - 598 days 15 hours ago

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I know im gonna get flamed...but, ill take the plunge.

What can EA possibly do to make the game bad?

They cant milk it...it already has been:

GTA 1
GTA London 1961
GTA London 1969
GTA 2
GTA 3
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
GTA 4
Soon, to be GTA 5

They cant do anything except put more resources into the game...which is a good thing. They're not gonna tinkle with what made the game such a high seller, and a great game overall.

I know EA is bad...i hate them as much as you do...but what can it do, to destroy GTA?

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Adriana Lima - 598 days 14 hours ago

2.1 - Looks at westwood

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Vito_corleone - 598 days 14 hours ago

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I don't consider that milking. From my point of view milking is when u continue to make sequels to a serie that has reached it's peak, for example; The sims 2 with expansions like H&M fashion wtf?..

Imo all of those games u mentioned have all been quality .. =)

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Breakfast - 598 days 14 hours ago

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quality...obviously...im not denying that...im just saying how can EA make this game bad. If its the same devs making the game.

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Vito_corleone - 598 days 14 hours ago

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I certainly agree on that. Only way EA can make this serie lose it's spark would be if they gave R* limited resources and time.

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Variable - 598 days 12 hours ago

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well, Rockstar made all those games great by putting a lot of time into it

EA rushes games too much (especially on PS3) and wants it on too many platforms, 2 or 3 (maximum!) is more then enough imo

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Montrealien - 598 days 11 hours ago

2.6 - @Adriana Lima

You should instead look at Louis Castle (co-founder of Westwood) Living the life in LA now as VP of EA LA.

You guys have to stop the hate, our industry is big and Companies are not monsters that eat little children and fight in the sky with lazers. The biggest thing they would do in GTA is brand the damn cell-phone. And they would treat the Housers like kings.

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barom - 598 days 4 hours ago

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How EA can ruin it:

1. Make us pay for new cars/characters/weapons
2. Make us pay for missions we otherwise would already have gotten
3. Make us pay for each island (Liberty City has 3 right?)
4. Won't give the dev team the resources and freedom that T2 gave (thereby making the game less immersed, like fewer animation etc)
5. Make games like Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories cost 60$
6. Let other studios create GTAs making GTA an annual series.
7. Make the dev tone the game down (to not get sued)

Honestly I wouldn't trust EA one bit. Every franchise they've touched has gone downhill. The Sims has like what? 8 expansions? Unheard of. BattleField went bad after BF2 (Bad Company looks weak mind you). Ultima franchise is basically extinct. Medal Of Honor has gone downhill all the way and have yet to climb back up. Need For Speed hasn't been all that either. And I can assure you that there are more.

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Real Gambler - 598 days ago

2.8 - Yikes, I would not buy GTAV!!!

First, they would really limit the game budget... It was 100 millions for GTAIV, they would say: OK, you do the same thing with 20 millions or less. (And in likely half the time, since they would not understand the concept of taking more than one year to make a game)

Rockstar is huge, but it's like a family. Some employees would likely get out, some may end up moving into other EA positions, human ressource, accounting, would be agglomerated or layed off since they already have their own staff, still breaking Rockstar even more. (Quite often, you have couples working in the same company...)

They would ask Rockstar staff to work on other projects, screwing up GTA. For them it would be only a game like all the other ones. If they need more artist or programmers to finish Madden on time, they would simply stop GTA and put those guys on it.

Rockstar is sub contracting lots of work outside too. Suddenly, they could not do it anymore, loosing precious contacts. (They would have to use in house ressources.)

In one year, about half the orginal GTAIV staff would be gone, moved, or would have to work with strangers and became a number like everybody else. Not the best working environment.

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zonetrooper5 - 598 days 14 hours ago

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EA have actually made quite a few good games whether people want to see that. Do EA make crap games? well yes they do but then again alot of companies will make good and crap games, there is no prefect streak for making games.

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crazy25000 - 598 days 14 hours ago

4 - Its funny how they never asked if EA would make it better =)

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znu - 598 days 9 hours ago

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lol

so true

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PimpHandHappy - 598 days 14 hours ago

5 - it would be ruined

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golden_cannon - 598 days 13 hours ago

6 - Breakfast has a point

I mean, FIFA 08 is the biggest pile of $#!+ I've ever played, but somehow they managed to take that $#!+ and make sweet perfume with it in the form of EURO 2008. For GTA I really don't think there is anything major they can do to hurt it. All they have to do is maintain the formula.

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Variable - 598 days 12 hours ago

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EURO2008 is the same as Fifa 2008, but with extra development time... So that proofs that EA isn't bad, but they should have more patience

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znu - 598 days 7 hours ago

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fifa 08 didn't suck, it owned. It was finally the innovation that took fia 08 ahead(compared to the ones before that sucked)

infact it was the game that ported me over from pro evo.

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UnRivaLeD - 598 days 10 hours ago

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EA blows,,

if EA took over but the same developers then it would be ok but if EA took over and different developers then GTA will suck asssssss

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permutated - 598 days 7 hours ago

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Great to hear the opinion of a 12 year old.

Moving on.

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Denzelio - 598 days 10 hours ago

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Under EA the huge evil rich company it is, GTA games should atleast then be properly tested before release and FREEZE proof atleast...

Not saying the game will be better atall just free of bugs.

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Rybnik - 598 days 10 hours ago

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Article needs correction:
"EA HAS the potential to destroy the GTA series..."
EA will not just give up on trying to grab Take Two and R*..deadline was extended til' late May..its not over yet folks, sadly.

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ElementX - 598 days 9 hours ago

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I think GTA needs an overhaul. Look at other sandbox games like Crackdown. That brought something new to the table, you get superhuman abilities like jumping 50ft in the air. It also created a vertical world that could be explored. Seems to me all the GTA games are the same except improved graphics. From what I've read about San Andreas, they took out features when they made GTA4. Don't get me wrong, I love GTA4, however I think maybe they should try to do something different. A new type of sandbox game would be pretty sweet, especially if Rockstar created it.

Ok so my comment doesn't fit the topic.

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devilhunterx - 598 days 9 hours ago

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well atleast they might introduce ABS to the car and a decent soundtrack.

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Asurastrike - 598 days 9 hours ago

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GTA wouldn't be affected at all if EA bought Take Two. EA would just let Rockstar do what it wants because they sell enough already.

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cr33ping_death - 598 days 9 hours ago

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again EA on the from of a GTA game = no money from my pocket to theirs

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Neurotoxin - 598 days 7 hours ago

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If EA takes over Rockstar then all creativity will be destroyed in the usual corporate bullsh1t way when big companies suffocate all artistic input.

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XB-T - 598 days 7 hours ago

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Don't think so, EA learned their lessons from the past and now they are leaving successful dev teams as they are.

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omni_atlas - 598 days 6 hours ago

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Are you kidding me. Their port of Team Fortress for the PS3 sucked. It still sucks even with the patch.

Army of two was horrible. You know a company doesn't even put effort in their games when they can even be bothered to make a cross-bar intro scene right before you launch the game.

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xc7x - 598 days 6 hours ago

17 - depends if original devs of the game leave

if not,should be somewhat ok,if they're gone game is screwed

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future techno - 598 days 3 hours ago

19 - If EA takes over Rockstar

If EA takes over Rockstar. There is a chance the next GTA could come in Wii

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cleawrence - 598 days 2 hours ago

20 - @future techno

not a chance!!

big n is against with this kind of game.

With Big N gears of war will become gears of love
or killzone -------> lovezone

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Gumball19 - 598 days 2 hours ago

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I hate EA, why they don't stop buying enterprise's that make cool games, and then, they ruin it.

All the games that Ea launches are so fck....g bad, they can concentrate on doing a few titles but do it good, because they are making money on that moment but in a future they will start losing, and all that enterprises they bought will disappear.

I'm start thinking that future of games is on the hands of EA....

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Lumbo - 598 days 1 hour ago

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Hmmm, lemme think ...

$70 GTA2009 (1 island only, may play to 30% completion)
$30 GTA2009 adon pack1 (1st extra island that already IS on the disk via a unlock code... allows you to play to 60% completion)
$30 GTA2009 adon pack2 (2nd extra island that already has been on the disk .. up to 90% completion)
$5 each GTA2009 unlock cars codes (already on the original disk .. buy unlock codes to get superior cars for multiplayer)
$5 each GTA2009 unlock weapons codes (already on the original disk, buy the codes to get the best weapons for multiplayer)
$5 each unlock radio station codes (you start with some anoying garbage station)
$60 GTA2009 stories1
$60 GTA2009 stories2
$60 GTA2009 stories3

GTA2010
...

GTA2011
...

GTA2012
...

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sleepbox - 598 days ago

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EA has destroyed Burnout. I'm sure they would do the same for GTA...probably bend over backwards to get it rated T for Teen with advertising every where.

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Varsarus - 598 days ago

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tbh, I do like playing games published by EA, especially the FIFA series, been playing that for a damn long time rofl, but yeah, I would be p!ssed if they took over.

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jones smokey - 597 days 22 hours ago

25 - destroyed or better!!!!

i am not sure, but i have played most of ea games in this generation and to be honest they kinda sucked, army of two was not above average(6/10)in my opeionon, and need for speed pro street was the worst in the franchies i have ever played,...and so on, ea just wants more money and they know if they have the rights to take two and gta they will have more than enough money to spedd, take two dont need to sell to ea as gta4 has and is going to bring so much money for them. dont get me wrong i still love some ea games but recently they have been realsing some crap and i dont want the same to be with gta5!!!

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Atomic Rage - 597 days 22 hours ago

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it would be total crap

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miganda - 597 days 15 hours ago

27 - it obvious

ea+gta=GTAEA. which spells= gonna.trash.another.excellent. acquisition.

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Danja - 597 days 10 hours ago

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I dont think EA would do ne harm to the GTA franchise....look at Criterion....they make excellent games...

the only thing that would change about GTA would be that it would be Published by EA...instead of R*...

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TheDeadMetalhead - 595 days 11 hours ago

29 - Let Us Begin the Funeral For GTA

Blah Blah Blah. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. GTA: 1997-2008:(

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red_ring_of_death - 598 days 15 hours ago

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destroyed x 10

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DevonTheDude535 - 598 days 5 hours ago

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agreed

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Sir Ken Kutaragi - 598 days 2 hours ago

1.2 - x 1 MILLION!!! ;-D

Well we would have GTA every year then!!! ;-D
i.e GTA 2008, GTA 2009, GTA 2010(Fifa edition!)... ;-D

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juuken - 598 days 9 hours ago

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Major catastrophic torture.
That is all.
Take-Two, fight the power!

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Creep - 598 days 9 hours ago

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i hope EA never buys take2 that would be the end of gta franchise with even more bugs major bugs and crap of final products that only EA F's up

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PoSTedUP - 598 days 7 hours ago

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fu*k ea, i herd if they do buy take2 their making a console and keeping all their games exclusive such as madden and gta

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AngryTypingGuy - 598 days 7 hours ago

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With Madden and GTA, it would be guaranteed to sell. The last thing we need is another console to lock up franchises.

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Jamaicangmr - 598 days 3 hours ago

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Destroyed EA doesn't improve they milk. If EA takes over buys Take2 That will be a sad day for gaming. Am hoping Take2 would release Rockstar and give/sell them the rights to GTA and say run save yourselves. That way the franchise can survive alil bit longer.

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Ali_The_Brit - 597 days 20 hours ago

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its going to be different, i have no doubt in my mind, wether that will be for the worse i dont know but it will change dramaticly, and alot of people are going to be so disapointed including me.

FOCK YOU EA AKA EVIL A-SSHOLES!

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jinn - 597 days 19 hours ago

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destroyed cuz army of two was terrible

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budbundystyles - 597 days 16 hours ago

9 - !

I think we are all underestimating EA, they are capable of destroying 9 Death Stars let alone GTA.

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