[News] EA Buys BioWare and Pandemic

Originally Posted by Elixir

They're as bad as THQ. They shouldn't be allowed to make games at all.

I applied to be a QA Tester with THQ ;___;

There's nowhere I can't reach.

@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.

Originally Posted by Tails

The real question is:

Would it be good?

No.

Why wouldn't it be good? >=0 Saged so bad.

Incidentally, both games were released by THQ, so the company can't be all bad.

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Enough said. If someone blows THQ up, maybe some quality movie-to-game releases will start happening. Some random mecha game isn't going to make up for the dozens of processed cheese they've managed to pump out in the last three years, sorry.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

BW still has many games under its belt not revealed.
I remember the news of one PS3 xclusive.
I know they will definatley make use of their voice engine alot, tweaking it even fiurther for future releases.
MMOrpg, dragonage, ps3 xclusive and lots more will come, all will rock coz they are in playable form, so EA could not harm it or can it?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Sexninja

BW still has many games under its belt not revealed.
I remember the news of one PS3 xclusive.
I know they will definatley make use of their voice engine alot, tweaking it even fiurther for future releases.
MMOrpg, dragonage, ps3 xclusive and lots more will come, all will rock coz they are in playable form, so EA could not harm it or can it?

There is no Bioware PS3 exclusive. It was a rumour started in early 07 by an anonymous reader. Here is the article.

Rumour Central

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Originally Posted by Elixir

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Enough said. If someone blows THQ up, maybe some quality movie-to-game releases will start happening. Some random mecha game isn't going to make up for the dozens of processed cheese they've managed to pump out in the last three years, sorry.

I.. can't really tell if you were making reference to some other games or if you're actually misinformed enough to think Full Spectrum Warrior is a mecha game, in which case we can just laugh you out of GFF altogether.

Either way, they sure have their share of crap as do all large publishers, but they've also published the Dawn of War games, Supreme Commander, Psychonauts, Broken Sword and your beloved Gitaroo Man. Like I said, they can't be all bad.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This raises some interesting points and questions for me. What i'd like to know is whether or not a video game developer would be considered a forum for media, and thus being branded a media company. BioWare is Canadian, and it is against the law to own a canadian media company if you're not canadian yourself (i.e. a canadian organization, or citezenship in the case of private ownership). I also happen to know that more than a few canadian laws get overlooked in this sort of case, so i wonder if this was taken into account during the buy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

But it isn't a Canadian media company anymore, it is a division of Electronic Arts, just like EA Canada.

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

But the law should've stopped the transaction in the first place.

How ya doing, buddy?

If there is such a law that you cannot completely sell a Canadian company to an American corporation, I'd be willing to bet they just structure it in a way where EA buys all of BioWare's assets...licenses, copyrights, employee contracts, property, etc....and then BioWare is dissolved.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I suppose that would work. I'm going to ask my politics professor about this though. Not that i'm trying to start a revolution or anything, just curious. Also would like to hear his opinion on whether or not game developers are considered forums of media.

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How many good games have THQ actually developed, not just released into Europe?

FELIPE NO

It still amazes me in a not really so amazed but kind of (sorta) that THQ is as big as they are today. Also that I can form sentences like that. They were so ARSE in the early 90's, breaking everything they touched. Wayne's World, Ren & Stimpy, Home Alone, MORE EXAMPLES HERE. These were big names! But the games were complete rubbish, and nobody bought them. They almost went down the shitter. Then BAM, effort! Time Trax, the second Ren & Stimpy (AND MORE EXAMPLES HERE: THE SEQUEL) were awesome. THE DIRT WAS GONE.

But now their licensed games sell hundreds of thousands of copies no matter how much stomach bile is rubbed on the case. THQ doesn't need to try anymore. And good luck to them on that. They outsell everything else on the planet combined including bread and milk (also milkbread). I'm off to pre-order Bratz 4 Real. THQ's a pretty good publisher when you kung fu kick the shovelware out of the way, though.

Buy Worms Open Warfare 2



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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

THQ's a pretty good publisher when you kung fu kick the shovelware out of the way, though.

Buy Dawn of War, Winter Assault, and Dark Crusade

Corrected. Anyone who released the RTS/strategy game of the year, more than once, can't be all bad.

With luck, EA will get so large that people will be able to siphon money off into little development departments without the "suits" knowing and we will get some great games that way.

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Actually at first I thought EA was horrible. However, a few of my friends work within there, and they say it's alright. It's not all that great, but it's not painstakingly horrible. I'm playing the game skate right now, and it's not all that bad. I'd prefer it more than Tony Hawk games at this point.

There's nowhere I can't reach.