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SUPER MONEYHAT!! EA swallows DICE
- Thread starter Chittagong
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fennec fox
ferrets ferrets ferrets ferrets FERRETS!!!
Look out, wives of DICErs!
captainbiotch
Banned
Now maybe EA can put out games with good graphics.
Shogmaster
Member
At this rate, there's just gonna be Sony and EA in 10 years. GAMERS AM CRYING.
Chittagong
Gold Member
D2M15 said:
:lol :lol :lol
deadhorse32
Bad Art
deadhorse32
Bad Art
Need For Speed Rally made by EA Sweden
...COMING SOON...
...COMING SOON...
Oh hell no.
I really wish EA would chill out with its world domination plans.
Dice made excellent Rally games on the Xbox,damn you EA. That tye of tallent taken away from the series just hurts,and badly.
Somewhere in the back of Sony and Microsoft's minds I bet theyre hoping EA never announces 1st party plans.
I really wish EA would chill out with its world domination plans.
Dice made excellent Rally games on the Xbox,damn you EA. That tye of tallent taken away from the series just hurts,and badly.
Somewhere in the back of Sony and Microsoft's minds I bet theyre hoping EA never announces 1st party plans.
TheGreenGiant
Banned
HOLY FUCK. :lol :lol :lol
Oh well.. this is good I guess. Multi-platform releases.
Oh well.. this is good I guess. Multi-platform releases.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
I saw this coming...
M$ should've got 'em.
I'm starting to look at EA a lil' differently now.
M$ should've got 'em.
I'm starting to look at EA a lil' differently now.
johnjohnson
Member
It was only a matter of time. I knew this would happen sooner or later.
a good rally game is something missing from EAs lineup. Also a serious racing game. Maybe DICE are the guys to deliver one of them.
EA has the money and the contacts. DICE has the talent.
If anyone can go up against Gran Turismo or Colin McRae, its EA.
And its a multiplatform publisher, so you'll still see DICE games on xbox (well, xbox2 maybe)
EA has the money and the contacts. DICE has the talent.
If anyone can go up against Gran Turismo or Colin McRae, its EA.
And its a multiplatform publisher, so you'll still see DICE games on xbox (well, xbox2 maybe)
Chittagong
Gold Member
Koshiro said:
The announcement smells like hostile takeover.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Then you shouldn't fuck them. ;P
Anyway, this was sorta expected once EA bought shares in them a while back...and it still kinda sucks because you know that anything that made DICE great before will be a distant memory in a year or two...
Anyway, this was sorta expected once EA bought shares in them a while back...and it still kinda sucks because you know that anything that made DICE great before will be a distant memory in a year or two...
Brosa
Member
Taken from the comment section of an article in the biggest financial newspaper in Sweden, "Dagens Industri" - about this bid:
There's allready a group of small part owners who are now gathering to collect enough shares to be able to say no, or at least pressure the board of directors at DICE to try to get a better deal. They claim 61 SEK / share is a steal. Shortly after the announcement they had allready "collected" 150,000 shares but they expect to need more than 1 million to make a difference.
Also, the conspiracy theories allready begun... DICE/EA's announcement earlier this year to postpone Battlefield for the consoles was supposedly a step to keep share price down for a cheaper takeover...
The CEO owns "only" around 100,000 shares and is supposed to have cut a deal under the table to benefit more from this than he should by just selling his shares, something that would give him a profit of "just" 4 MSEK which is less than 600 KUSD.
[End of comments]
In the article itself Rory Armes, head honcho of EA European Studios talks about Battlefield versions for Xbox 2 and PSP, and says they will hire 150-200 persons within DICE the coming 2-3 years and calls Stockholm an "important creative hub" for EA.
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Article in Swedish:
http://di.se/Avdelningar/Artikel.as...nId=Ettan&menusection=Startsidan;Huvudnyheter
Comment Section to the article:
http://di.se/Funktioner/ArtikelKommentarer.aspx?articleId=2004\11\15\124144&acmShow=true
There's allready a group of small part owners who are now gathering to collect enough shares to be able to say no, or at least pressure the board of directors at DICE to try to get a better deal. They claim 61 SEK / share is a steal. Shortly after the announcement they had allready "collected" 150,000 shares but they expect to need more than 1 million to make a difference.
Also, the conspiracy theories allready begun... DICE/EA's announcement earlier this year to postpone Battlefield for the consoles was supposedly a step to keep share price down for a cheaper takeover...
The CEO owns "only" around 100,000 shares and is supposed to have cut a deal under the table to benefit more from this than he should by just selling his shares, something that would give him a profit of "just" 4 MSEK which is less than 600 KUSD.
[End of comments]
In the article itself Rory Armes, head honcho of EA European Studios talks about Battlefield versions for Xbox 2 and PSP, and says they will hire 150-200 persons within DICE the coming 2-3 years and calls Stockholm an "important creative hub" for EA.
____________________________________________________________
Article in Swedish:
http://di.se/Avdelningar/Artikel.as...nId=Ettan&menusection=Startsidan;Huvudnyheter
Comment Section to the article:
http://di.se/Funktioner/ArtikelKommentarer.aspx?articleId=2004\11\15\124144&acmShow=true
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Hah.
EA bough Criterion => Sony is stupid
EA bought DICE => Microsoft is stupid
Good going Sony and Microsoft... In just couple of months EA swiped two graphics and gameplay powerhouses under your noses. Both could have been a crowning jewels in your 1st party development, not to mention in the case of Criterion, a stranglehold on the industry's middleware software.
Damn, they can be stupid sometimes. Well, if anything, I hope more 3rd party consolidation brings us a DVD-like unified console system sooner.
EA bough Criterion => Sony is stupid
EA bought DICE => Microsoft is stupid
Good going Sony and Microsoft... In just couple of months EA swiped two graphics and gameplay powerhouses under your noses. Both could have been a crowning jewels in your 1st party development, not to mention in the case of Criterion, a stranglehold on the industry's middleware software.
Damn, they can be stupid sometimes. Well, if anything, I hope more 3rd party consolidation brings us a DVD-like unified console system sooner.
This is absolutely terrible. Dice is one of the absolute best developers in Europe.
I guess this means no more Rallisport games, and instead an endless amount of Battlefield sequels. Or that EA makes them develop the console versions of Medal of Honor. Either way, it absolutely sucks.
I guess this means no more Rallisport games, and instead an endless amount of Battlefield sequels. Or that EA makes them develop the console versions of Medal of Honor. Either way, it absolutely sucks.
Guns N' Poops
Banned
Lionhead is next. Fable is too successful to not think about it and they still have a very close connection through B&W2.
Duckhuntdog
Member
Guns N' Poops said:
Why would they want to buy into a moneypit? EA likes companies that can make games in less they 3 years and can actually make money.
Chittagong
Gold Member
So, who's next? There aren't too many big developers left independent anymore.
CrimsonSkies
Member
"So, who's next? There aren't too many big developers left independent anymore."
Looking at how Vivendi is handling their gaming business lately and roughly 90% of their games are pretty poor looking in development. I could see EA making a bid for Blizzard in a few years.
Looking at how Vivendi is handling their gaming business lately and roughly 90% of their games are pretty poor looking in development. I could see EA making a bid for Blizzard in a few years.
They announced Battlefield: Modern Combat is coming to Xbox 2 today as well. They believe it will launch alongside PS2 and Xbox versions next fall (read: Xbox 2 will launch fall 2005 according to EA). Also the singleplayer component of Modern Combat is handled by an unknown EA studio... There goes the BF-franchise...