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Venkman
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on: October 11, 2007, 01:25:42 PM

Whoa. dat's allota cash

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Electronic 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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and so on
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Reply #1 on: October 11, 2007, 01:28:50 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Reply #2 on: October 11, 2007, 01:29:30 PM

Woohoo cheap Mass Effect for me!

oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer
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Reply #3 on: October 11, 2007, 01:30:17 PM

oh god

i can't stop laughing
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Reply #4 on: October 11, 2007, 01:33:06 PM

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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Reply #5 on: October 11, 2007, 01:33:36 PM

Awesome, Mass Effect for Wii.

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Reply #6 on: October 11, 2007, 01:34:57 PM

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Reply #7 on: October 11, 2007, 01:36:10 PM

Gonna need me an explanation. Not up on the funny :)
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Reply #8 on: October 11, 2007, 01:36:52 PM

Any bets on how many of the staff are going to bail and become re-ex-EA employees?

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Reply #9 on: October 11, 2007, 01:38:36 PM

All of them?

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Reply #10 on: October 11, 2007, 01:43:16 PM

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Reply #11 on: October 11, 2007, 01:48:55 PM

Ah, fuck. RIP Bioware. Keep us informed of where you end up.
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Reply #12 on: October 11, 2007, 01:51:12 PM

EA's CEO used to work at Elevation Partners. Gee, I wonder if he was a partner in the pool that owned VG?

I have never played WoW.
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Reply #13 on: October 11, 2007, 01:57:13 PM

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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Reply #14 on: October 11, 2007, 02:01:11 PM

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.

I have never played WoW.
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Reply #15 on: October 11, 2007, 02:03:27 PM





Someone photoshop the map that came with baldur's gate onto that.
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Reply #16 on: October 11, 2007, 02:09:00 PM

Well.  Fuck. 
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Reply #17 on: October 11, 2007, 02:09:33 PM

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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Reply #18 on: October 11, 2007, 02:11:10 PM

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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Reply #19 on: October 11, 2007, 02:16:25 PM


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Reply #20 on: October 11, 2007, 02:23:28 PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man.   Sad Panda


Edit.... this hits way closer to home than I can say.   Yeesh.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2007, 02:26:08 PM by Soln »
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Reply #21 on: October 11, 2007, 02:25:21 PM


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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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.


Reply #22 on: October 11, 2007, 02:26:01 PM


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Reply #23 on: October 11, 2007, 02:27:01 PM

Aww man. EA destroys good companies. I didn't care about Mythic but losing Bioware is going to hurt.
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Reply #24 on: October 11, 2007, 02:33:43 PM

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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Reply #25 on: October 11, 2007, 02:38:05 PM

Methinks it's time for a little Doors and Apocalypse...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI24HgwK4m0

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Reply #26 on: October 11, 2007, 03:11:58 PM

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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Reply #27 on: October 11, 2007, 03:40:53 PM

Farewell untitled MMORPG using the HeroEngine.

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Reply #28 on: October 11, 2007, 03:56:23 PM

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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Reply #29 on: October 11, 2007, 03:58:30 PM

It doesn't. It means a whole lot of funny for me though.
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Reply #30 on: October 11, 2007, 04:04:17 PM

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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Reply #31 on: October 11, 2007, 04:06:20 PM

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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Reply #32 on: October 11, 2007, 04:09:28 PM

An earth shattering kaboom.   Or more accurately, a large PHUT. 


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Reply #33 on: October 11, 2007, 04:11:22 PM

Well, there goes another good dev studio. Alright, what's left for the evil disgusting giant to buy?

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Reply #34 on: October 11, 2007, 04:20:48 PM

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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