This should be terrifying to gamers everywhere. It seems that the biggest publisher in the game industry is intent on buying the second biggest. I'm all for capitalism, but EA is getting too big. It seems like the bigger they get the lower the quality of their product. With the notable exception of Maxis, EA seems to be the place where once venerable game franchises and developers go to die.
I have a particular concern in this case. Take 2 owns 2K Games which owns Firaxis (oi!), the current publisher of the Sid Meier's Civilization Series. I'd hate to see Civilization get the McElectronic Arts treatment...
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1 comment:
Hey, there.
Yeah. This sounded like terrifying news to me, as well. Hopefully, they bought them because they knew they were good and would bring in fresh ideas and good developers to the M$ of the gaming industry.
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