EA bids for GTA Firm

[Technologic]

I'm glad Take-Two aren't buding. EA are crap at games

[brandon]

Back off EA.

[Ashley 12344]

I think GTA will be next to finished, if not finished altogether. By the pre-order offers, their making pretty much as many copies as they will need for a few months post release ready for the actual relase.

[Neil]

I read about this yesterday, apparently they've been after GTA4 for a few months now, Take Two wont accept though, EA see GTA4 as the biggest game of the year and know it will rack the sales up so high they can't compete with anything, I don't want EA to have anything to do with GTA4, if EA get hold of it the online will stink because it'd be hosted on EA servers

[---MAD---]

I know, I asked because of the point you made about them buying sports and I thought this might be included somehow because of how it was described.

If they kept the same developers etc. with it then it shouldn't change a lot but I'm sure there would be some noticable differences in future games if it did change hands.

Thing is EA have ruined so many good franchises after they bought them. They dominate a lot of the gaming market so they can afford to make crappy games. You have little choice you either don't play any games or play them.

[Jamesy]

Thing is EA have ruined so many good franchises after they bought them. They dominate a lot of the gaming market so they can afford to make crappy games. You have little choice you either don't play any games or play them.

Exactly, they invade everything, make bad, rushed games and strangle development and eventually end up making the, already late, game into about 5 expansion packs.

*cough* spore.

[Technologic]

Exactly, they invade everything, make bad, rushed games and strangle development and eventually end up making the, already late, game into about 5 expansion packs.

*cough* spore.

Oh god no. I didn't know EA were developing spore? I wa slookign forwards to it too >_<

[Jamesy]

Well they took over maxis which was sims, sim city and made societies and sims 2. Both are bad compared to the originals.

[mangle]

Its 100% done on BOTH systems. They're just making the final touches :]

[Fez]

EA didn't do bad with the port of Orange Box. but that was from their fairly new Swiss HQ.

I keep feeling that EA now has enough money to actually plan and distribute an actual console.