Vivendi merges with Activision in $18.9B deal

Jacksmith28 · 02-12-2007, 01:24 PM

DOWN WITH EA!!!!

Read about it Here
This is great news, I can see some great games coming out of this.

friedkarma · 02-12-2007, 01:50 PM

Yeah, EA is just awful.

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hollywood21639 · 02-12-2007, 05:19 PM

Indeed EA is awful. Where creativity goes to die.

"Sorry for the broken controller, here's a copy of Superman Returns"

xxrpggamemanxx · 02-12-2007, 05:23 PM

I just hope they don't affect bioware at all...

hollywood21639 · 02-12-2007, 05:35 PM

I'm afraid to say that it will, look at all the top tier developers they have bought over the years, most are no longer around and the products they released under EA were all of severely reduced quality.

Pepper Jack · 02-12-2007, 09:19 PM

EA really aren't that bad, why doe's everyone hate on big companies for no real reason??

EA have some **** games and some great games like any company, just don't buy the **** ones dumbasses, here's a little guide for you

the godfather - no
skate - yes
they also had a hand in COD4 - yes
madden - yes
fight night - yes
fifa - no
rock band - no
superman - no

it just goes on like that, so stop hating on EA you sons of bitches, they make good and bad games like any other company, just because they are successful doesn't mean they suck, i don't get why everyone hates microsoft and blink 182 either

Kona Palangi · 02-12-2007, 09:58 PM

Correction; Fight Night was mediocre at best and anyone who knows anything about boxing (Go Hatton and **** Mayweather!!) would agree. Madden is good by default simply because EA has an NFL monopoly. The ESPN football games were superior to Madden at the time and given the opportunity they could probably do a much better job present day. SKATE is a given but I fail to see where exactly EA fits into Activision's Call of Duty 4. Could you specify what role they played. if any, in the development of CoD4? EA does look to be turning a corner but to date, only SKATE has been a legitimate "good" ORIGINAL title which they have published.

Pepper Jack · 02-12-2007, 10:02 PM

when i play cod4 there is always a message about EA so i just assumed that they must have something to do with the game, do they own infinity ward or anything??

hollywood21639 · 02-12-2007, 10:52 PM

The message from Activision you are getting is "EA sucks"

Gee · 03-12-2007, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepper Jack

when i play cod4 there is always a message about EA so i just assumed that they must have something to do with the game, do they own infinity ward or anything??

Activision own Infinity Ward
I've just checked and nothing about EA comes up whatsoever.

Pepper Jack · 03-12-2007, 03:29 AM

weird, it always comes up with a message saying something like "EA chicago is hiring"

03-12-2007, 05:57 AM

yes but EA dont develop games alex, they just buy over deveolping companys and give them crazy ass deadlines and wreck the companys totally. Look at westwood the makers of C&C EA bought them ages ago and since all C&C games have been pretty ****, EA fired half the staff keeping the minimum needed and made them develop games under EAs eye and forcing short deadlines and developing time.

IT goes on and on for all good developers that have been bought over by EA, EA are publishers not developers so they dont make any games, and the fact they gobble up every Film license so they can make a **** game and make the gaming community look bad to the general public with ***ass film license games that your average joe shows interest in.

And EA have nothing to do with infinty ward alex, that COD4 message was just there as there was nothing else to show, was just a random gaming community message.