EA purchase Bioware and Pandemic

[cHodAX]

A sad sad day in gaming history

EA Purchases Pandemic & BioWare - Voodoo Extreme

 

[Lamp]

Will try to get through the rest of my life...will be hard...but should be able to manage it

 

[CorNokZ]

What did they make anyway?

EA rocks with daoc!!!

 

[cHodAX]

Will try to get through the rest of my life...will be hard...but should be able to manage it

One more quip like that from you lardarse and you won't even see daylight again nevermind the rest of your life!!

 

[Manisch Depressiv]

Cash-in time!

 

[Bugz]

What did they make anyway?

Errrr

errr

errr

 

[Helme]

What did they make anyway?

BioWare is one of the biggest founders of modern computer RPG's as we know it.

Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic and so on.

 

[Afran]

R.i.p

 

[Nate]

careface.

 

[liloe]

Will try to get through the rest of my life...will be hard...but should be able to manage it

Gladly we have your suicide-song thread going, makes it easier to pick a nice one

I hope Baldur's Gate 3 will be as good as BG 1+2....else it's gonna hurt hard

 

[Congax]

careface.

I concur.

 

[Sharma]

Well here we go, time for 4 more sequels to franchises which should be left as they are.

Overzealous budgets with too much "wow shiny" instead of actual game play, the list goes on.

EA Games - Bastardise everything.

 

[Dukat]

 

[pikeh]

the fact ea have bought bioware makes me sad


baldurs gate <3

 

[Bahumat]

Alot of magazines have been mentioning how EA are nolonger in it solely for the money. By this they mean you'll still get the Fifa/NHL/NFL/cricket/F1 junk every year, but they'll be pumping money into games so that they can actually make them good to play.

I can only assume as they have bought up all the designers/coders etc etc, they can throw money at them and say "make a kickass game pls".

I take this info with a pinch of salt, but i'm sure someone round here can find some games EA own that are pretty good.

 

[old.Tohtori]

....not even gonna go there.

*whacks a few anti-EA fanbois into the corner with the xbox fanatics, wii wankers and the rest of "this is crap 'cause it has labelz!" crew*

Seriously!

EA has brought some quality gaming into the market, and most likely, this business wouldn't be as near as good/funded if it wasn't for the likes of EA.

Just because they DO release franchise games and sequel games(Which sell like hell on wheels, ipso facto, they ARE good), doesn't mean they are "just crap money cowz!"

 

[Mabs]

afk to kill myself

wankers

 

[Ctuchik]

EA are nolonger in it solely for the money.

lol, yeah right. that will be the day hell freezes over.

sure, EA CAN make good games (atleast once every 10 years), but whenever they do make one, they also make 30+ sequels and/or expansions for it turning a once great game into just another fucking EA cash cow.

and they will never EVER change from that.

and ppl will keep buying their "new and improved" FIFA 4098 or F1 with Schumacher's great great great great great great great great great great grand son's pet parrot...

 

[Ctuchik]

EA has brought some quality gaming into the market

yeah they have, and at the same time totally fuck them up with all the expansions/followups....

thats the problem we have with EA, they don't fucking know when to stop.

/edit:

Just because they DO release franchise games and sequel games(Which sell like hell on wheels, ipso facto, they ARE good), doesn't mean they are "just crap money cowz!"

no? look at sims/sims2 for example, thats not a cash cow? or the NFS series, the first 3 games were good, the last is quite good to (knock on wood), everything in between is pure cash cows with little to nothing that tells them apart.

 

[old.Tohtori]

and ppl will keep buying their "new and improved" FIFA 4098 or F1 with Schumacher's great great great great great great great great great great grand son's pet parrot...

But just because people, millions of people, buy FIFA 3856 and F1-Maximed 2012, doesn't make them crap games(actually quite good games), or EA a crap cash cow(you'd sell stuff too if people buy it).

Those games have a market, many people like those games and as such, wouldn't you bring out that to people?

Also with those "stupid cash cow" games, they can produce other games that you like.

But people who claim "EA bought this, now they are down the crapper", are just being as bad as hardcore fanbois.

yeah they have, and at the same time totally fuck them up with all the expansions/followups....

thats the problem we have with EA, they don't fucking know when to stop.

And sometimes they know, and sometimes the sequels work.

Like with Need for speed, Battlefield...works like wonder.

It would be the same f*cking thing with any company. When you produce SO much, the amount of good games doesn't change, but the amount of games in general and the % that an individual player likes of THOSE games does change.

 

[CorNokZ]

BioWare is one of the biggest founders of modern computer RPG's as we know it.

Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic and so on.

Buhu! All the games I never cared to play

I take this info with a pinch of salt, but i'm sure someone round here can find some games EA own that are pretty good.

Dunno if you've heard about it, but this old game, that a lot of ppl still play, called Dark Age of Camelot, fucking pwns

 

[old.Tohtori]

Dunno if you've heard about it, but this old game, that a lot of ppl still play, called Dark Age of Camelot, fucking pwns

Also, if that's not enough:

Just SAY that EA releases only crap cash cows...come on...say it!

 

[Bahumat]

Dunno if you've heard about it, but this old game, that a lot of ppl still play, called Dark Age of Camelot, fucking pwns

That's kinda before my time, I only managed to play the addon "Dark Age of Lag-Alot" and their sequel "Dark Age of Castalot".

The Open Transit expansion, boy was that a good thing!

 

[Bahumat]

Also, if that's not enough:

Just SAY that EA releases only crap cash cows...come on...say it!

I noticed a game missing;

Road Rash (1994)
Road Rash (1991)
Road Rash 3-D (1998)
Road Rash 3: Tour De Force (1995)
Road Rash II (1992)
Road Rash: Jailbreak (1999)

The full list should be;

Road Rash (1994)
Road Rash (1991)
Road Rash 3-D (1998)
Road Rash 3: Tour De Force (1995)
Road Rash II (1992)
Road Rash: Jailbreak (1999)
Road Rash: Jailbait cHodAX edition (2007)
Groin Rash: Vladimir (2007)
Arse Rash: Doc Wolfe Turbo edition (2007)

Some damn good games there

 

[echome]

I don't see the problem. Since I like many of EA's games.
That is your world controlled by capitalism - Survival of the riches

 

[Manisch Depressiv]

I prefer to buy games that are not made/published by EA/MS/Ubisoft.

For obvious reasons.

 

[Imgormiel]

Thief 3 was ok.......

 

[Case]

Of all the people here slating EA how many of you have bought their games? Blame no one but yourselves.

 

[Imgormiel]

I bought alot of Bioware games, I liked them alot. I don't particularly mind EA if they are a 3rd party to the software which usually they are. At least their marketing works, unlike Mythic/Goa (no offence but true )

 

[Huntingtons]

I bought alot of Bioware games, I liked them alot. I don't particularly mind EA if they are a 3rd party to the software which usually they are. At least their marketing works, unlike Mythic/Goa (no offence but true )

agreed, EA Should have owned GOA in the beginning of daoc imo