Is Electronic Arts Looking For A Buyer?

all i can say, is i hope they don't buy and tear it apart. on another note, this could mean, good things to come.

I hope nothing but the worst for EA as an entity. They have been nothing but a parasite on the gaming industry. Their sins are simply unforgivable. RIP all the malignant and the lost studios.

Maybe time to write a article about how kick starter is revolutionizing game development?

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. When shadowrun becomes a big hit, then we will see.

Except that it's not revolutionizing anything...

They don't just downsize, they impose their corporate culture on their acquisitions and then they always suffer from irregular attrition in the upper ranks immediately afterwards and since they love to hire newbies, they never ever pick up the slack. That's EAs only true strength, they'll give newbies a foot in the door like any shitty first job. By this I mean interns which is basically slave labor. Their critical fault is that they scale down the development cycles as they move, and with that the budget. This crap about EA turning a new leaf? They didn't do anything at all to the architecture, what they did however was stitch on a patronage system (EA Partners Program) to uplift studios. They're still the same fecal lords they always were, only they're using co-ops as a means to influence external studios like the COD defectors.

I don't get the hate for EA, sure they make yearly cash in on sports games and The Sims, but that's their business. Hating them is like hating you grocery store for not being "innovative" and always carrying the same thing, or that its price hikes are cause by greed (well duh, it's suppose to make money). Aside from sports games and Sims EA actually publishes some damn fun games: BF3, Dead space series, mirror's edge, Mass effect series

There are worse companies to wish death on, like certain companies that use child labor and polluting chemicals that cause cancer. But obviously those are trivial compared to what EA has done.

Sure they "killed off" Command and conquer's Kane arc, but at least they tried to keep it afloat.

Last generation everyone hated ea because they were buying out all the small companies but this past generation I'd say they redeemed themselves.

They produce quality games now

The funny thing is, no one would have the capital to buy EA. If the Activision/Blizzard sale looked like anything, then it is impossible for a corporation of this size to be purchased, unless if it was sold off in pieces via bankruptcy, which is not going to happen, since EA actually made revenue last fiscal year.

As for the hate...people tend to look at their past CEO's mistakes/actions and blame EA all time for it. Closing down westwood as an example, yeah they did that after they stopped turning a profit. Of course, what people fail to realize is that a majority of the Westwood Staff walked out before the sale to EA took place, essentially abandoning a half-baked product called Tiberian Sun into their laps to finish on a tight schedule. So in the Westwood situation they never fully recovered because they lost their leadership and almost their entire dev team.

It is issues like that people take offensive, but there are two sides to the story that everyone neglects.

That's interesting....

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away...

Sorry, couldn't resist.