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EA close to acquiring Ubisoft ?
- Thread starter UbiSoftologist
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Since they've already been pumping out a new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia and Rainbow Six every year, and plan on continuing to do so, what's the difference who owns them? The only thing to be worried about is they might not be publishing offbeat games (like Lumines, Sprung and Ape Escape Pumped & Primed) in NA anymore. But who knows, maybe they were going to cut that out, anyway.
Kumiko Nikaido
Vindication...sweet.
Yin Yang Twins in Prince of Persia 3 courtesy of EA Trax!
Do you really want to hear EA Trax' music in Ubi games? Oh fuck no.
Do you really want to hear EA Trax' music in Ubi games? Oh fuck no.
C- Warrior
Banned
Fuzzy said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol
Kumiko Nikaido
Vindication...sweet.
Fuzzy said:
Original, in-house music > Commercialized, licensed music
Doom_Bringer
Banned
Anyone else see EA launching their own console by 2011? They are fucking unstoppable, buying talented devs left and right
Kinda scary 0_o
Kinda scary 0_o
Doom_Bringer said:
Nyah, why launch your own console and have to deal with the losses associated with R&D production, etc... when you can simply run shit on the software side by simply using your massive leverage of IPs to sweeten any deals you want to?
Anyway I hope EA picks up Ubi just to watch people get pissed... and claim that EA will just have Ubi pushing out sequels each year... until they are reminded Ubi already does that.... as other have said..
Deku said:
Now this is a clueless statement. The problem more often than most is not the QA. The QA can find bugs but they don't have much power to make it corrected. That's exactly what's happening within big business with tight schedules. We do find the bugs but there's other reasons why they aren't necessarily corrected. We actually find a SHITLOAD more bugs than what will be corrected and we actually find alot more bugs than you'll ever find on your own.
UbiSoftologist
Member
DarienA said:
:lol Hilarious! :lol
monchi-kun
Member
Original games will always find a home wih Majesco
I'm sickened of people who are complaining about sequels, when people get the most excited about 3rd, 4th, 5th or 12th iteration of a franchise and those are the ones that sell most. What do you expect publishers to do? They're in this business for making money, nothing else. If people keep buying sequel after sequel, that's what you are gonna get. Looking at this forum, 90% of the games people are most excited about are sequels. Any attempt to make an original game is generally viewed with a great dose of skepticism, both in the media and in the community. The only original franchise that has made any sort of big impact this gen (from a sales point of view) is Halo (and splinter cell too maybe, it has helped ubi get bigger). The best you can hope is to create a great quality original game, and hope that it sells decently and THEN make the big bucks with the sequel (which usually takes less development time as well). Or hype the game years before release, delay it many times so that the game gets as much recognition as possible (i.e. Fable).
Sequels are great, but only when they're done right-- with real upgrades and additions and improvements. Some people are fine with tweaks and yearly roster updates or minor story changes, but I'd rather devs take 2-3 years to make sequels right or wait until subsequent generations.
Quality >>>>>> Quantity to me as a gamer, but not to the execs
Quality >>>>>> Quantity to me as a gamer, but not to the execs
ProgramFighter
Member
I'm fine with sequals. In fact, most of the games I get most excited about are sequals. However, I do not like yearly updates (not including sports games). Let's look at Metal Gear Solid for instance. It is one of the best game series out there. Konami takes their time making these games better and it shows. We've had 3 main games in the series over the course of two generations. Also, the two biggest series this gen, GTA and Halo, have had only 3 and 2 games respectively. Now, let's look at Tomb Raider. We had 5 games during the PSOne era each getting worse and worse. We're about to have 4 Splinter Cell games in just this one gen, though I admit I do like these games. Furthermore, we've had 3 Jak, 3 Ratchet, and, now, 3 Sly platform games. We had just ONE Mario platform game all gen. I understand these sequals are selling, but, really, publishers need to give some time away to these franchises so they don't get stale and go the way of Tomb Raider. It would be nice to see some more original games as well. Too bad those don't sell. Two of my fav games this gen were Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath and Psychonauts. As far as I know they have sold really bad. Oh well...
Anyways, to get back on topic, I don't like EA getting even bigger, but Ubisoft was turning into them regardless. Besides, I'm upset at Ubi. With all the IP they own, they could have given PoP or Splinter Cell a break for a year and give me another Rayman or Beyond Good & Evil.
Anyways, to get back on topic, I don't like EA getting even bigger, but Ubisoft was turning into them regardless. Besides, I'm upset at Ubi. With all the IP they own, they could have given PoP or Splinter Cell a break for a year and give me another Rayman or Beyond Good & Evil.