EA to buy Crytek?

Daikatana, J. Romero and Eidos. Well, actually things started going downhill when they left Origin but eventually it was Eidos who pulled the plug.

 

i thought EA already bought crytek earlier. or was it just farcry rights?

maybe that was it. while crytek, says "sure, we'll take your money" then write a whole new tropical shooter seris called crysis!...SUCKERS!"

 

Ubisoft owns the Far Cry IP.

EA is not buying Crytek: http://pc.ign.com/articles/728/728692p1.html

 

This comment almost made me punch my monitor.

Honestly, what the hell is everyone's quarrel with EA?

 

Ruining dozens of the world's best studios and turning them either into shit or just killing them? Cancelling tons of titles that had a lot of potential after announcing them for fear of what they'd do to their other franchises? Providing disastrous working conditions to their employees? Not giving a fuck about releasing completely buggy crap at launch and not supporting it once they got the money?

Did you even ever play an EA game? ... (not that I hope you did, mind you)


Uttar

 

I've got news for you: this is the nature of the business. Now, please enlighten me as to which studio EA turned into garge after purchasing it? Please do because I don't know. Frankly, I don't care about the working conditions of employees. This is a double edged sword, take a look at the slackers over at 3Drealms. Yes, you heard me correctly: SLACKERS. No one ever seems to complain about the "working conditions" of countless rappers who meet the business end of a Beretta for the music they produce. As far as bugs are concerned, name me one game, just ONE GAME, that had a smooth takeoff, because personally I don't even know of one. Are you honestly sitting there under the impression that I've never played an EA game?! I've made mention, in that very SENTENCE in which you quoted, to my blatant disgust towards Sobek's feelings towards the Battlefield series. Now, I may be insane, but I'm not nearly insane enough vouch for a company who's games I haven't even played.

 

I find it amusing when people leap to the defense of a greedy corporate entity.

 

Then throw away your Microsoft paraphenalia.

 

EA has activitly ruined the gaming industry.

- They've bought out a number of development houses and turned out sequels of the games produced by those houses that are of considerbly less quality.

- They buy out license that do nothing but eliminate competition (NFL). This should be illegal if you ask, but oh well. EA now owns the football market (huge in video games) completely. With any other developer having no chance.

- They simply produce crap. Look at BF2 for a prefect example of an EXTREMELY buggy game. Patches BREAK the game over and over. Its common for a BF2 to patch to make the game more buggy than before.

Sure what they do is the nature of the business, but they've strong armed their way into markets and completely cut the head off of any competition, not through quality products, but through monolopy tactics.

EA is the Microsoft of video games.

 

Why? Do I defend a company by using their products? We're only consumers to them, they only care about our money. My loyalties are pretty loose when it comes to corporations.

 

EA has activitly ruined the gaming industry.

- They've bought out a number of development houses and turned out sequels of the games produced by those houses that are of considerbly less quality.

Give me a few examples please.

- They buy out license that do nothing but eliminate competition (NFL). This should be illegal if you ask, but oh well. EA now owns the football market (huge in video games) completely. With any other developer having no chance.

I could care less if the name of sports games world renowned fell off the face of the planet. My loyalties lie within EA's other games. And while I don't care much about their sports games, I do know they rarely receive a bad grade. So whatever keeps critics and players content seems to be their issue: IE the issues of every developer to walk the face of the Earth.

- They simply produce crap. Look at BF2 for a prefect example of an EXTREMELY buggy game. Patches BREAK the game over and over. Its common for a BF2 to patch to make the game more buggy than before.

BF2 was the only of the BF series to have that many issues. Pity it happened to be the best as well. How do I know this? I own every BF game since 1942. While I agree with you regarding the issues revolving around the patches, you cannot sit here and say it ruins BF2. Because you're out of your goddamn mind if you think that way. What about Blizzard? I PAY FOR WOW ON A MONTHLY BASIS! Therefore you would think patch after patch would resolve issues, COUNTLESS issues, but it seems with every patch we jump out of the fire into the frying pan.

Sure what they do is the nature of the business, but they've strong armed their way into markets and completely cut the head off of any competition, not through quality products, but through monolopy tactics.

Jesus Christ. It's so passe to scream "monopoly" without any supporting evidence. There's a different between a monopoly and producing games of value. No one has presented me with any factual evidence of a monopoly and I would be more than happy to stop claiming so forth if someone did.

EA is the Microsoft of video games.

^ One could only wish

 

Already been named in this thread: Bullfrog, Origin, Digital Anvil, etc. There's been quite a few companies EA bought just to get IP rights to a few sequels, and then the companies fizzle out into marketing names. Some staff are folded into the greater EA hegemony, most of the key people (the reason for buying the company in the first place) then leave and start their own software houses again. Some (like Peter Moleyneux) have publicly said that they wished they'd never sold to EA, as they just ended up away from game development and sitting in meetings while EA gutted their old companies.

EA are like the Creative of gaming software.

 

How typical! You disagree therefore you can not be proven otherwise because you'll never concide the point. You simply blow off the fact that EA bought out the entire football genre, simply proving my point that you'll never concide because you refuse to.

There have been several examples in this thread alone, I guess you've just skipped over those on accident, I'll assume.

Want some examples: Westwood, Origin Systems, Bullfrog, all named in the first page of this thread. Again I'll assume you just accidently skipped those.

I also have a hard time understanding how you could think the other BF games were not buggy as hell also. BF1942 did not become even playable, in my consideration, till a number of patches later.

 

Indeed; MS regularly churn out really good video games.... ;D

 

First of all I'd like to make mention to your inherent ability to patronize me like an illegitimate child. I'm going to ask you only once, politely, to never to it again. Now I've noticed throughout this thread your ability to cling to the underdog. So please, enlighten me with your shining beacon of knowledge, what games, WHAT ABSOLUTE PINNACLES OF DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, did those SUBPAR companies produce? Put it this way, if I was homeless on the streets I'd pray for the limousine to liberation to pull up beside me and take me into it's world. Now that example may be a tad bit drastic, but you get the general idea. I don't see how EA is SINGLE-HANDEDLY responsible for the sinking of the aforementioned companies. They were probably on their way down to begin with. As for our conflicting views on the levels of bugginess the BF series posed, simply put: different users encounter different arrays of problems. Go read any game forum and see the endless threads devoted to problems that would NEVER concern you. I'm not saying prior BF games were devoid of any errors whatsoever, but I do know for a fact they rarely irked me.

 

Sorry for stating what you're doing. The fact is you just did it again though, "probably on their way down to begin with."

There's no point in even trying to discuss something like this when all you're going to do is simply brush it off like that. Others have already pointed a number of development studios bought out by EA whose games were ruined.

 

You, sir, are sorely in need of a history lesson. Start here.

 

Alright then. Just disregard everything I asked you in order to avoid conflict. I'll keep that in mind everytime Mcdonald's fucks up my order, and ends up overcharging me.

 

Thank you for posting what I asked for about 6 times in this thread. "FACTUAL EVIDENCE."

I'll read it.

 

Ha.

Did you not believe any of us when naming places like Westwood and Bullfrog? The magical website article will therefore make it all better because since its not from us who have been saying it this whole thread.