[News] EA Buys BioWare and Pandemic

I was more surprised by the fact that EA could afford to buy the companies with all the office downsizing and complaining of sales they've been doing this year. Suppose they wern't as bad off as they tried to make it seem. (no surprise there)

However I'm not all that surprised. I'm more surprised that Pandemic didn't get purchased by Lucas Arts first and that Microsoft didn't buy BioWare, especially with the recent loss of Bizzare and Bungie.

Ah well, such is the way of the business world I guess. Worst part is there's another 3 seconds taken out of my life each time I boot up Mass Effect watching the stupid EA logo, lol... *crying*

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Especially their sports games man. Jeez, that's really killing the way the industry works in North America, and it sucks balls.

While I do appreciate the fact that EA IS coming out with well baked games like Army of Two and such, they still have a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ways to go. At the very least, they're not taking advantage of the Wii like Ubisoft which EA could VERY easly do. (take advantage in a bad way I mean)

But this topic in of itself can be made into a thesis and then on to a full size paper of business and econimics all based off this very topic so I think I'll stop here for the night.

How ya doing, buddy?

@BlueMikey
I meant more in the shear number of games. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that Ubisoft have made 50% of the Wii games to date... seriously.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

If THQ goes bye-bye, then who's going to make Man Handeling or Wresteling games?

The world will cease to lose balance... oh wait a second, there's still EA, right, nevermind.

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