Venkman
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Whoa. dat's allota cashElectronic Arts Inc., seeking to bolster its lineup of action, adventure and role-playing games, reached an agreement with Silicon Valley private equity firm Elevation Partners to acquire VG Holdings Corp., the parent company of game makers BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios, in an $860 million deal.
The deal, the largest in EA's history, will add to EA's portfolio ten games that are currently under development, including Mass Effect and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, two games generating buzz in the industry. Six of the games are owned in total by VG Holdings, which fits in with a broad movement by EA to fully control the rights to more of the games it publishes, instead of sharing ownership with movies studios and other partners.
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schild
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Driakos
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Woohoo cheap Mass Effect for me!
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oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer
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schild
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oh god
i can't stop laughing
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schild
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i think i'm laughing so hard blood is coming out of my face. eyes, ears everywhere
shift key broken it's so funny
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Yegolev
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Awesome, Mass Effect for Wii.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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Venkman
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Gonna need me an explanation. Not up on the funny :)
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Roac
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Any bets on how many of the staff are going to bail and become re-ex-EA employees?
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-Roac King of Ravens
"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -SC
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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All of them?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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And the fifth seal was broken, and lo the skies turned to blood...
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Ah, fuck. RIP Bioware. Keep us informed of where you end up.
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shiznitz
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the plural of mangina
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EA's CEO used to work at Elevation Partners. Gee, I wonder if he was a partner in the pool that owned VG?
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I have never played WoW.
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schild
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ohh god
i can't take it
it's seriously too much
WARHAMMER VS UNNAMED MMOG
2 GO IN 1 COME OUT NOT SHIT! POWER!
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shiznitz
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the plural of mangina
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How many days since Mythic delayed WAR? No fucking coincidence.
Get the Bioware guys on UO, STAT!
Next, Microsoft buys Take Two to kill the PS4. No, I didn't forget the green text.
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I have never played WoW.
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schild
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Someone photoshop the map that came with baldur's gate onto that.
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Mazakiel
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Well. Fuck.
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AngryGumball
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Is it to late to have the guy in Mass Effect pull up to a Burger King to invetigate whether the enemy is hiding out there? It should only take the Bioware Devs a couple extra weekends to implement this.
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schild
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I can't say I'm sad. I can't publically say why I'm not sad either.
But this is lol-fucking-city.
THE LOLLATORIUM EVEN.
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Bunk
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Operating Thetan One
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL "I have retard strength." - Schild
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man. Edit.... this hits way closer to home than I can say. Yeesh.
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« Last Edit: October 11, 2007, 02:26:08 PM by Soln »
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murdoc
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Reg
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Aww man. EA destroys good companies. I didn't care about Mythic but losing Bioware is going to hurt.
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Salamok
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So much for the mystery MMO, I was mildly curious about that since it was being developed here in Austin.
edit: looks like EA is just running around buying multi-million dollar lottery tickets hoping they can hit the big one.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Merusk
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You PC folks can bitch about "Consolization" of games, or you Console types about the "Wii-ilization" of games all you want.
It's shit like this that will kill gaming long before either one becomes a serious issue.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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Farewell untitled MMORPG using the HeroEngine.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Montague
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So, color me stupid but why does everyone think that EA buying Bioware automagically means their unnamed MMO is cancelled? Did I miss the memo where it was leaked out that it's a PVP-oriented fantasy diku-WoW clone?
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When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross - Sinclair Lewis.
I can tell more than 1 fucktard at a time to stfu, have no fears. - WayAbvPar
We all have the God-given right to go to hell our own way. Don't fuck with God's plan. - MahrinSkel
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schild
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It doesn't. It means a whole lot of funny for me though.
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NiX
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So, color me stupid but why does everyone think that EA buying Bioware automagically means their unnamed MMO is cancelled? Did I miss the memo where it was leaked out that it's a PVP-oriented fantasy diku-WoW clone?
Are you familiar with the history of UO2 and UOX?
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Montague
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So, color me stupid but why does everyone think that EA buying Bioware automagically means their unnamed MMO is cancelled? Did I miss the memo where it was leaked out that it's a PVP-oriented fantasy diku-WoW clone?
Are you familiar with the history of UO2 and UOX? No, I was an EQ-tard and didn't pay much attention to UO. What was the deal?
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When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross - Sinclair Lewis.
I can tell more than 1 fucktard at a time to stfu, have no fears. - WayAbvPar
We all have the God-given right to go to hell our own way. Don't fuck with God's plan. - MahrinSkel
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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An earth shattering kaboom. Or more accurately, a large PHUT.
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Fabricated
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Well, there goes another good dev studio. Alright, what's left for the evil disgusting giant to buy?
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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waylander
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If Bioware isn't making a certified run away hit MMORPG, then it probably won't ever make it to retail.
I really liked the UOX/2, or whatever they called it, concept and thought that could have been a real good game.
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