Comments on: Ubisoft mulling over merger with EA

By: dog

dog — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:57:18 +0000

Your not breaking down anything for us buddy. We Already know they are a business. And guess what? Bungie is a business is it not? So is EA. So is Nintendos software studio, so are a lot of the companies that EA bought out and turned into cookie cutters. You see you are not forced to make money ONLY. You can make money and good non cookie cutter games. That is why people here hate EA, and the fact that EA has dogged out Microsoft. They have made enemies and now they are HURTING unless they can get a large portion of games out on wii and 360 quick! Before it starts hitting there pocket book. And then stock price.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:03:04 +0000

You know it’s true.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:34:19 +0000

I actually had to go back and look at that news posting.

Lmao, and he said I complain too much.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:56:42 +0000

Seconded

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:56:19 +0000

Making comments like that you could do well to refer to the dressing down you tried to give me over the whole DLC Gears of War thread.

Hypocrite.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:54:21 +0000

Oh shut up.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:37 +0000

I like Ubisoft because of the games.

I hate EA because of the games and everything else on top.

That make me a hypocrite then?

By: yabadabbado

yabadabbado — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:14:14 +0000

EA FUCK OFF, EAT SHIT AND DIE

By: Veritas

Veritas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:31:31 +0000

Real RTS games only exist on the PC.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:29:34 +0000

It only costs that much money because companies like EA make the five-million dollar budget games a standard. Game companies can survive on less than that, but few publishers want to risk it because they’re afraid of putting out something that plays well and doesn’t have fancy rendered cut-scenes.

By: BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip

BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:59:15 +0000

You’re right, EA’s demise and disease and eventual death are forever in my prayers. Hey Tuberculosis guy, go visit EA studios!

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:15:28 +0000

My biggest beef with EA is their stupid POS servers they make you connect to. They don’t work half the time and when they do it just takes that much longer whenever I could have already been finding a game. Then they are notorious for spitting out the same game with a few minor changes over and over. Need For Speed and Madden are 2 very good examples.

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:12:59 +0000

Yah to be honest, not really a fan of either one. I much prefer the other smaller companies.

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:11:28 +0000

Yah I know. One can hope though lol.

By: BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip

BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:46:39 +0000

Does it help that I hate BOTH EA and Ubisoft?

By: BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip

BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:45:35 +0000

don’t hold your breath chief! As universally unliked as EA is, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

By: BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip

BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:42:33 +0000

Well, back in 2004, when EA bought out 20% of Ubi; the quality of Ubisoft’s games dropped 20%.
I’m still not a big fan of Ubisoft their last good game in my eyes (not yours) was the first (recent) Prince of Persia. Since then, they haven’t made anything I like to play, I HATE Tom Clancy games (even though he hates Mexicans) Far Cry blew, TMNT was crap along with King Kong…
So maybe its the French I don’t know, The French fucked up Test Drive Unlimited, just another example…

By: dog

dog — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:24:33 +0000

What i’m trying to say is if a company like ea is cookie cuttering a game and we keep buying it instead of a better effort and better quality game because of hype and loyalty then we forced them to sell out by being the first sellouts. Eventually they have to compete because ea is making games with less man hours by cookie cuttering it and there formaking more money to buy more franchises.

By: mass9

mass9 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:22:37 +0000

i think so too.

By: mass9

mass9 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:21:27 +0000

Gawd!….all the complaints on here.
I hate to break it to some of you guys, but video games, like hundreds of other industries are businesses. It costs money to make games. In most cases, lots of money.
Seeing that EA own 20% of Ubi already, it only makes sense that they go for the whole thing at some point. Their maket cap has dropped over the past few months, but they still have plenty of cash to burn.

mass9 says:
buy ERTS, but don’t expect too much activity until Madden 08 is released.

By: Spen Jankowski

Spen Jankowski — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:21:18 +0000

Personally I think this is the worst thing that could happen to the games market, E.A don’t care that the products they release are sub-par rubbish and just re-hashes of games they brought out 4 years ago. Ubi is an excellent company with very well made games and E.A will ruin that for everyone. They’re just like John Hammond from Jurassic Park they stand on the shoulders of giants to achieve greatness.

By: dog

dog — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:20:59 +0000

yeah jmel your right! except we(not you) made them the sell outs by buying there games instead of buying the better 2k serious. And other games, the thing with EA is there marketing is far superior than others. They know how to pump a game in a commercial.

By: Buuuudddy

Buuuudddy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:00:10 +0000

Some EA games are good.

By: KilltasticBagel

KilltasticBagel — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:04:34 +0000

FUCK EA!

By: coojo

coojo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:55:53 +0000

ugh EA suckS

By: Edwin Jones

Edwin Jones — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:07:13 +0000

I like and used to work for EA. They are just another big company. All big companies do naughty things (hello sony, MS, etc) its just how they make money. That said, EA do try - they had the balls to bring real RTS games to a console.

By: Otis Whitaker

Otis Whitaker — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:02:39 +0000

Ubisoft practically is the French EA.
They’ve done things just as bad as EA.
The only reason Xbots have a soft spot for them, is because during the last gen, Ubiosft favored the XBOX, as opposed to EA favoring the PS2.
Things EA did that could be seen as “bad” to the XBOX audience last gen, Ubisoft practically did the same god damned thing to people who gamed on the GameCube and PS2. Crappy ports. Sloppy efforts. Etc. Etc.
Liking Ubisoft, whilst hating EA is incredibly hypocritical. (Unless you genuinely are doing soley based on each of the two company’s games, as in, which game’s you like more and which you like less, and nothing more.

By: Ross Hayward

Ross Hayward — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:20:11 +0000

You never seem happy about anything game-related.

By: Edwin Jones

Edwin Jones — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:47:16 +0000

EA are just a big company. If ubi were big and EA small, roles would be revesed. In the end there all there to make money, not to make good games - thats only a secondary objective. Still, a merger would suck balls.

By: Mc Dale snail

Mc Dale snail — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:15:19 +0000

Well if E.a are doing anything this year it should be creating a motocross game………

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:13:16 +0000

Don’t do it Ubi!!! I am hoping for EA to die off. Worst game company out there by far.

By: Jmel

Jmel — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:57:20 +0000

You know what’s hilarious about this? Ubi was all “piss and vinegar” about the hostile stock buyout attempt or whatever a year or more ago… then I noticed they started making more and more ea style decisions… generic titles with slight updates, overpriced content etc…

Now suddenly the idea is warming up to them.

What a bunch of sellouts… I dunno when I’ll be buying another ubi game again if they go through with ANY deals with ea.

By: Optimal - Evil

Optimal - Evil — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:55:52 +0000

EA SUCKS COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!

By: Maxxx1

Maxxx1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:48:18 +0000

The Take over begins…

By: HylianHitman

HylianHitman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:46:56 +0000

‘I think everybody is for sale.’

Why don’t they just buy everybody then. I’d like to see them try and buy Nintendo. That would be funny.

By: OLethalOShadowO

OLethalOShadowO — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:45:10 +0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

By: thekkeffect

thekkeffect — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:41:37 +0000

ubisoft+capcom!….dang!…Splinter Cell: in Lost Planet….sweet!…

By: HylianHitman

HylianHitman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:32:50 +0000

No, no, no! Not Ubisoft! Take THQ instead!

By: mu

mu — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:24:33 +0000

please god no.

By: Studley

Studley — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:24:31 +0000

Haha, this would be the worst merger ever.

Company which champions DLC + company who loves nickel ‘n’ diming their customers for 100kb downloads = DISASTER