EA Buys Pop Cap

Kazz · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:17

Gimpymoo said:
Was this not rumoured a few weeks ago but dismissed?

LOL

WOW

Yeah

BombayMix said:
Hopefully we'll get a PvZ2!!

Guaranteed now. Then a PvZ3 in 2012, PvZ4 by winter 2012, PvZ MMO by 2014. Gotta keep that cash cow milked

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Semiskimmed · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:26

ic1male said:
Featuring a Commander Shepard zombie if you pay £1.29 for it as DLC!

and a poster if you pre-order!!

phatboy · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:30

medic!

orderoftheflame · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:51

Old news?

Meh. They had one great game, but have been too busy milking their other casual games to do anything awesome with it.

I know it's the cool thing to spin every EA story into something far bigger than it is, but no great loss imo.

neoboy · 13 Jul 2011 at 14:31

Can't say I was ever a big fan of them in a first place, they don't really make games that I like. I can see why EA are interested though, the sort of "social" games that they produce are a gold mine at the moment.

BloodyL · 13 Jul 2011 at 14:40

It's when serious game companies are swallowed up by casual game factories that we should get worried, a la Ritual way back when Half Life 2 Ep1 trounced SiN Ep1.

BombayMix · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:20

orderoftheflame said:
Old news?

Meh. They had one great game, but have been too busy milking their other casual games to do anything awesome with it.

I know it's the cool thing to spin every EA story into something far bigger than it is, but no great loss imo.

Like I said what have they done recently?

FoxEye · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:24

Evilsod said:
Depends how EA handle it really. If they push them to release things early then its gonna go downhill fast. If they leave them to there own devices and simply take the profit then there isn't a lot of difference.

EA have only one mode of operation. They are a giant factory which exists to mass-produce titles as quickly as possible - and the quality of their games is a distant second in terms of company priorities.

buchtis · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:25

R.I.P Pop Cap.

Setroc · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:35

Everyone's acting like this is a death sentence, but when have EA been running devs into the ground recently? I can only think of Mythic, but that was one massive screw up that lies on Mythic's shoulders more than anyone else's.

QlimaxUK · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:38

buchtis said:
R.I.P Pop Cap.

Neil79 · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:42

A terrible sadness has come across this forum since the news

~Divine~Wind~ · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:48

Goodbye popcap

LeJosh · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:51

They weren't that great.

bhavv · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:54

Setroc said:
Everyone's acting like this is a death sentence, but when have EA been running devs into the ground recently? I can only think of Mythic, but that was one massive screw up that lies on Mythic's shoulders more than anyone else's.

Westwood + Bioware. They also stole the rights to SMAC from Firaxis Studio, hence we wont ever get a sequel to many peoples favorite strategy game ever made.

chaparral · 13 Jul 2011 at 18:15

At lest it wasn't Activision that bought them...As they would have charged £40 for each POP game..

Setroc · 13 Jul 2011 at 18:17

Westwood was a long time ago, and Bioware is doing just fine. Bioware under EA have produced two fantastic brand new IPs in 5 years, and 4 out of 5 of their main releases have been extremely good.

SMAC 2 wouldn't be the same without Brian Reynolds imo. Why Brian, why did you go to zynga of all places?

Spektor · 13 Jul 2011 at 18:18

chaparral said:
At least it wasn't Activision

bhavv · 13 Jul 2011 at 18:24

Setroc said:
and Bioware is doing just fine

I disagree.

Weebull · 13 Jul 2011 at 18:30

LeJosh said:
They weren't that great.

This. I mean really, it's only Pop Cap.

EA Buys Pop Cap

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