EA Games Closes the Black Box

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JoshSL 20.12.2008#1

If they cut BioWare, I WILL hunt them down, and I WILL kill them.

But I think that goes for most people.

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Frazzle.d 20.12.2008#2

Meh, again best luck to the people out of a job at this crucial time of year.

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Satoshi 20.12.2008#3

What!? I never really liked NFS...but didn't each version of that sell loads!?
I thought that would be one of their most profitable games, re-releasing the same game new name every year..

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Guest 20.12.2008#4

Only $120 annually? Stingy bastards.

EA. Truly the scrooge of the industry. Smilie

Faust_D 20.12.2008#5

Bart.... said:
Only $120 annually? Stingy bastards.

EA. Truly the scrooge of the industry.

Well, even though they gain only $120, they'll be spending $55-$65 MILLION on restructuring. They're not THAT stingy;- Smilie

AND! I see this as good news; Recent NFS games sucked immensely in my opinion. It was too much about DA STREETZ and not enough about actual fun driving. I remember the ridiculous tracks in NFSIII on my PSX, they were genuinely fun. That underwater thingy, the outerspace track.. Good ol' days^^

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jb 20.12.2008#6

We work so damn hard on the news and this is what we get.

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Guest 20.12.2008#7

Well what people don\'t know is that those millions will be paid for by not paying their employees for TWELVE YEARS! Smilie

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[edit] Hopefully they won\'t fire you from this job for this mistake JB. :p

( Edited 20.12.2008 13:24 by Bart.... )

originaljohn 20.12.2008#8

Need for speed bad
burnout good

Birdo Is A Tranny 20.12.2008#9

Actually I'm kinda liking this worldwide economical crisis.

The worse it's gets the more companies that will go out of business i.e. those with a bad business structure e.g. Majority of them being shovelware companies.

My conclusion:

Less shovelware companies = less shovelware! Smilie

Phoenom 21.12.2008#10

Birdo Is A Tranny said:
Actually I\'m kinda liking this worldwide economical crisis.

The worse it\'s gets the more companies that will go out of business i.e. those with a bad business structure e.g. Majority of them being shovelware companies.

My conclusion:

Less shovelware companies = less shovelware!

Dunno how you figure that one out. One particularly annoying trait of shovelware is that it barely needs to sell anything to turn a profit; if anything this economy will create more of it. Smilie

Plus, out of every developer that has gone bust so far (Factor 5, Free Radical etc), none of them have been shovelware developers. I\'d be happy if Phoenix Games or Data Design copped it, but that looks unlikely. Smilie

( Edited 21.12.2008 07:09 by iPhoen )