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Phantasium posted:Say goodbye to Titanfall, friends. God drat it.
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Like the ideal position a publisher should have would be 505 Games and Indivisible. If Lab Zero could front half then 505 would front the other half. And they juuuuust made it at the end and that was 2 million over two months.
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the evil WEEDthin also i don't like arguing about labels, especially when it's people i like doing it. some goofballs on my FB are having the dumbest fit right now about how "pop punk" has never existed, how "pop" is always bad, and how the Buzzcocks were "new wave and therefore CRAP". it's so tedious!
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This isn't the biggest acquisition by EA in terms of money. EA bought Popcap for $650 million with an additional $500 million bonus. Popcap failed to earn a fifth of the bonus and underwent a series of layoffs. They also bought Pandemic/Bioware for $850 million from Elevations Partners, a private equity firm. The firm was co-founded EA CEO John Riccitiello when he left EA in 2004 before returning to EA in 2007. After the sale, Pandemic was closed down in 2009 by EA after shipping The Saboteur. I'm sure Riccitiello pitched the deal to the EA boardroom out of the kindness of his heart and not an attempt to give his buddies back at Elevations Partners a huge kickback. Oh, and Riccitiello made $4.9 million off the sale due to his ownership of Elevation Partners. Hopefully, the Respawn acquisition goes better. Bogart posted:I know nothing about nothing but can't you just self-publish? AAA games need a publisher to fund the developers, handle marketing/advertising, and actually publishing the game. Most independent developers don't ship enough AAA games in a year to justify having a large in-house publishing staff. Respawn had a sweetheart deal with EA who provided seed money for the studio, handled marketing, and allowed Respawn to own the Titanfall IP in exchange for publishing rights.
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precision posted:the evil WEEDthin Music arguments are literally the worst. I would rather argue about "are hot dogs sandwiches" and "is chili a stew" than loving music.
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Never mind the Buzzcocks.
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how is chili not a stew
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al-azad posted:Music arguments are literally the worst. I would rather argue about "are hot dogs sandwiches" and "is chili a stew" than loving music.  no doubt. It's all the worse because I am a musician and I kind of have to deal with this poo poo.
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Bogart posted:how is chili not a stew Look man, the soup vs. stew wars are still raging in dark corners of the earth.
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When did this thread become PYF
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Titanfall 4 to be developed by DICE
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Codeacious posted:Titanfall 4 to be developed by DICE
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al-azad posted:Music arguments are literally the worst. I would rather argue about "are hot dogs sandwiches" and "is chili a stew" than loving music. Olive! posted:When did this thread become PYF
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punk is a sandwich
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Really Pants posted:punk is a sandwich Punk is a crap sandwich. The more bread you have, the less crap you gotta take.
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The White Dragon posted:hot dogs are sandwiches. not my opinion--it's the law, citizen Every poster arguing about food here is a bad poster
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precision posted:Punk is a crap sandwich. The more bread you have, the less crap you gotta take. But Bread was a soft rock band! This is all so confusing. Managed to get rid of a bad CoD and Assassin's Creed for a straight trade on a bad Batman (Origins), and it's pretty OK so far. Surprisingly good looking for a PS3 game.
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I'm always surprised when I hear EA is still in business. I guess there are still a ton of people buying Madden and The Sims every year 
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Reality Winner posted:I'm always surprised when I hear EA is still in business. I guess there are still a ton of people buying Madden and The Sims every year ea is loving gigantic man what do you expect lol they loving closed down the people who made the sims and could afford to just make another studio to continue it, and they have the exclusive license to make freakin star wars games
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In Training posted:That sucks about respawn Don't worry. They'll be forced to make Titanfall 3 on Frostbite, run into development hell due to technical issues, get closed down, and have Titanfall 3 finished by another EA studio subsidized by the Quebec government. Reality Winner posted:I'm always surprised when I hear EA is still in business. I guess there are still a ton of people buying Madden and The Sims every year They've been more profitable than ever before since they kicked out John Riccitiello and his strategy of competing in every product category. Instead, they adopted the Acti-Blizzard model of consolidating resources on sure-fire bets and high growth products. It also helps that most of their games have very aggressive monetization systems. Andrew Wilson might look like a James Bond villain but he brings in money like a James Bond villain.
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Frostbite is designed for FPS games so hopefully Respawn will have a much easier time of working with it than BioWare or Visceral did. Hell, Madden runs on Frostbite even but they are the core pillar of EA's power and probably got tons of support direct from DICE
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Oh I guess they own FIFA too.
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Sunning posted:Andrew Wilson might look like a James Bond villain but he brings in money like a James Bond villain. I had never seen someone wear a suit jacket with, like, leather lapels until I saw the EA CEO
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PYF video game
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Fallout 2
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How can you force me to choose just one game??? Its Pikmin 2
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Jay Rust posted:PYF video game it's pokemon
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Jay Rust posted:PYF video game
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Codeacious posted:Titanfall 4 to be developed by DICE Current day DICE? 
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Jay Rust posted:PYF video game
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The White Dragon posted:it can't be, i don't see any bad posters Turn *on* your monitor
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PYF bit of video game merch
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homeless snail posted:its tetris and I will bury anyone who disagrees in bricks I will disappear you like a completed row.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Frostbite is designed for FPS games so hopefully Respawn will have a much easier time of working with it than BioWare or Visceral did. Hell, Madden runs on Frostbite even but they are the core pillar of EA's power and probably got tons of support direct from DICE DICE makes the jankiest AAA shooters, I can't imagine something fast and active like Titianfall on their awful engine.
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i’d have to think about it but my gut reaction favorite video game is either bastion or hotline miami
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 Respawn. Titanfall 2 is a hell of a game to go out on though 
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Reality Winner posted:I'm always surprised when I hear EA is still in business. I guess there are still a ton of people buying Madden and The Sims every year Reality Winner posted:Oh I guess they own FIFA too. 
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i also had no idea that EA bought popcap, the company poised to be Zynga before there was a Zynga, and ate it like saturn devouring his son i guess i knew in the back of my mind because they tried to make plants versus zombies into gears of war
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