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I've got bad news for Dice fans.....

warcrow

warcrow

Lifer
You know that thing that you really didnt want to happen, and if it were to happen, you'd be really bummed? Well, I hate to inform you guys of this....but that thing has happened.

Link
 
Is it just me, or did they basically say "the offer is fair" over and over in that statement?

It's all gonna go downhill from here for DC fans...
 
I hope they're ready to work 15-17 hour work days, not get paid any over time or comp time, and get loew raises.
 
From another forum:

List of studios killed by EA:

- Origin: Wing Commander (dead), Crusader (dead), Ultima (might as well be dead)
- Westwood: Lands of lore (dead), Dune (Dead), C&C (miraculously survived by baiting EA marketing with a half-a$$ed 'renegade' game, fooling EA into getting them to develop what promised to be an awesome sequel only to have them squash it while the real game, C&C Generals, took the railroad north to Canada).
- Bullfrog: Dungeon Keeper (dead), Magic Carpet (dead), populous (Dead), etc etc etc etc (all dead). Numerous attempts made to fvck up Black& White's release to punish Peter Molyneux's successful escape
- Maxis: Amazinly left unscathed, EA has toyed with maxis by hiding bugs and the fake promise of online play in otherwise tremedous games (SimCity), and fostering psudo-child prostitution online (Sims Online).
- EA Sports: Works employees 80 hours a week maintianing the absolute highest industry standards for lack of innovation.
- Ubisoft: Realizing Ubisoft is too large to buy EA instead set up a 700 person multimillion dollar studio in Montreal to drain Ubisoft employees from making great games like splinter cell, rainbox 6, and prince of persia.
- DICE: Expect three desert combat games in a row. The interface will now be done in strange unintiutive and cryptic shockwave flashes and you will no longer be able to connect to lan games without a key for each PC. Rallisport will now be a playstation2 exclusive with no online play and will come out with a new version each year mainly consisting of a new box.
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Sounds like the shareholdes still need to vote on it...we can only pray that >51% of them are somewhat intelligent gamers.
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
From another forum:

List of studios killed by EA:

Westwood - C&C (miraculously survived by baiting EA marketing with a half-a$$ed 'renegade' game, fooling EA into getting them to develop what promised to be an awesome sequel only to have them squash it while the real game, C&C Generals, took the railroad north to Canada).
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Being C&C Renegades probably only fan, I wholeheartedly disagree. Renegade was a great game 🙁

We want Westwood Studios back!
 
First Ubisoft...
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23542

First Ubisoft, now Dice? People need to just stop buying EA branded games. Dice made some good games...Motorhead.

There goes another good developer/publisher to the wrath of EA. I don't buy any games that are published by EA. Now that will include Ubisoft. I never bought another EA game, after what they did to ORIGIN, ULTIMA series games, BULLFROG, and all the other independent developers. Ultima Ascension was what did it for me. EA ruined that game and rushed Origin to go ahead and release it prematurely.

Too bad not many people remember the history of EA and how they ruined these independant developers and their games. Anyone else remember? Too bad all the "console kiddies" will keep giving EA money for their lousy sports games.

The way to stop EA is Electronic distrubution like Bioware and Valve Software (STEAM) is doing. All these independant developers need to stop going through publishers and start offering downloads of their games. Then people would stop buying in-store.
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
From another forum:

List of studios killed by EA:

- Origin: Wing Commander (dead), Crusader (dead), Ultima (might as well be dead)
- Westwood: Lands of lore (dead), Dune (Dead), C&C (miraculously survived by baiting EA marketing with a half-a$$ed 'renegade' game, fooling EA into getting them to develop what promised to be an awesome sequel only to have them squash it while the real game, C&C Generals, took the railroad north to Canada).
- Bullfrog: Dungeon Keeper (dead), Magic Carpet (dead), populous (Dead), etc etc etc etc (all dead). Numerous attempts made to fvck up Black& White's release to punish Peter Molyneux's successful escape
- Maxis: Amazinly left unscathed, EA has toyed with maxis by hiding bugs and the fake promise of online play in otherwise tremedous games (SimCity), and fostering psudo-child prostitution online (Sims Online).
- EA Sports: Works employees 80 hours a week maintianing the absolute highest industry standards for lack of innovation.
- Ubisoft: Realizing Ubisoft is too large to buy EA instead set up a 700 person multimillion dollar studio in Montreal to drain Ubisoft employees from making great games like splinter cell, rainbox 6, and prince of persia.
- DICE: Expect three desert combat games in a row. The interface will now be done in strange unintiutive and cryptic shockwave flashes and you will no longer be able to connect to lan games without a key for each PC. Rallisport will now be a playstation2 exclusive with no online play and will come out with a new version each year mainly consisting of a new box.
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Normally I wouldn't quote something so big, but I want everyone to read it again. Holy sh!t I never knew how many great series were left in EA's wake! Wing Commander! Dungeon Keeper!! Arrrggh.
 
Crusader... I loved it so much.. 🙁

Oh why so software companies are that dumb to accept EA's offer..

What companies are still there hmmm...

Valve
Blizzard
Atari
Ubisoft
Microsoft (thinking of buying? you kidding me?)
VU games
LucasArts
Activision

Sega?

and the other small ones...Valve is quite small too btw
 
Originally posted by: MadDogMcKill
Crusader... I loved it so much.. 🙁

Oh why so software companies are that dumb to accept EA's offer..

What companies are still there hmmm...

Valve
Blizzard
Atari
Ubisoft
Microsoft (thinking of buying? you kidding me?)
VU games
LucasArts
Activision

Sega?

and the other small ones...Valve is quite small too btw
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They are slowly taking UBIsoft
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
From another forum:

List of studios killed by EA:

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I know this isn't specifically a studio, but EA is also sitting on the System Shock IP with the intent to never make anything using that IP or relating to SS3 ever. 🙁
 
Well I am hoping that indie game makers continue to grow. Small Business is were it's at, if you want new and innovative games. People willing to take risks.

Indie game festival Lots of fun looking games, most can be had at half the price most main-stream games can be found.

But I am not going to hold my breath. For most people if it's not aviable at Wallmart or BestBuy then it just doesn't exist.
 
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