Rumor: EA to buy Epic Games?

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Seemingly unable to secure a deal to buy out Take-Two Interative, it looks like EA have now set their sights on Epic Games.

Back in August it was reported that EA had made a deal with Epic's People Can Fly studio and Grasshopper Manufacture to make PC and next generation console games.

Now it appears EA want to go one step further and acquire Epic and it's components outright. EA have already bought Pandemic and BioWare this year but are still looking to 'buying out companies who have produced a quality line-up of games'.

However rumour suggests the main target is acquiring the exclusive licensing rights over Unreal 4.0 technology.
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Source: Gameguru

Discuss.
 
I reckon EA needs to be seen for the monopolizing beast that damages the industry that it is, and have restrictions placed on it so it can no longer grow by feeding on the vitality and life essence of smaller but better, superior developers and publishers.


I actually wish for the day EA dies, like a nice sudden collapse, so that the gaming industry finally has room to breath and begin anew.



EA have already bought Pandemic and BioWare this year but are still looking to 'buying out companies who have produced a quality line-up of games'.
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Aye, so that people don't realize EA's idea of quality is shit on a disk that is either a rehash, a pitiful smattering of cheapo content, or barely worthy of a first year animation/modelling/texturing student that is sold at full retail prices regardless of how utterly little effort has went into it.
 
Microsoft should get in it and outbid EA.


no, never mind, that would make the exclusives problem worse.
 
Big companies collapse.

I'm waiting for that joyous day when fresh companies emerge from EA's rotting corpse.
 
Isn't there an amendment that doesn't allow one company to take over others and become a monopoly?
 
god damnit EA STOP ****ING BUYING EVERYTHING YOU MONEY HUNGRY ****
 
Didn't anybody else see it coming? Epic games was slowly but surely producing worse and worse content and making statements more like ea by the day. It was only time before they actually became them.
 
Again, it's been outright proven to be false:

Owen Good via Kotaku said:
First, Electronic Arts is not buying Epic Games, OK? Doesn't matter that EA has tons of money and someone else with a lot of time on his hands has good ideas for what to do with it. "Rubbish," says Epic Vice President Mark Rein, a guy who's in position to actually know something substantive about this.
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Well, that's somewhat of a relief.
 
They don't need to be bought to be fecked up.
 
No ****ing way.
Microsoft's been rather quiet lately.
 
Yeah, but they do it quietly, so it's ok.
 
EA would be a good thing for Epic at this point.

BHC said:
Again, it's been outright proven to be false:



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Don't believe a word of it. It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetimes. EA isn't just the future. EA is now.
 
If anybody acquires Epic wouldn't it logically be Microsoft at this point?
 
Honestly I'd rather see EA get them than MS. EA likely only wants them for their engine producing skills which is all they're really good at (and I'm sure the vast majority of revenue at Epic comes from licensing deals). This would have little to no impact on the consumer.

If MS gets them then you'll only ever see the engines they make being used on whatever their newest console or OS is. The good part about that is it'll take the industry leader out of play for the majority of the market, leaving it open for more diverse looking games ... the bad part is they make pretty ****ing good engines and less developers will have access to it.

As much as I dislike EA ... they're better than MS.
 
Hey guys, I heard a rumour... Ea's going to buy...

EVERYTHING!!!111eleventy1

even the moon
 
BHC said:
If anybody acquires Epic wouldn't it logically be Microsoft at this point?
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I don't see why, not from any business money making strategy viewpoint anyway. MS would cockup any takeover they tried.
 
PaoloM said:
Forcing XB360 and Vista exclusives is *very* evil, in my point of view.
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First, it's a lot easier to develop for the 360 than it is a PS3, and I think that's very clear.

If you were a development studio, and you had the choice of releasing a great game on one platform, or a mediocre game on two platforms, which would you choose? Then going to Microsoft, to see if they are interested in funding development also helps with that.

Vista exclusives are less clear. Sometimes the companies decide it's easier to test on just one OS (or else, there are a whole hell of alot more testing config's, and it will cost more money to test) rather than testing on two. Othertimes, and this is probably what is happening with Alan Wake, is that they will make it DirectX 10 only, and thus are artificially limited to Vista.

Many times, unless it's a high profile game, MS won't "buy" an exclusive from you. In fact, as of late with like FF13 and GTA IV, MS isn't buying exclusivity of the game, but stealing it away to make it multi-platform (though they are getting exclusive DLC for GTAIV).

Also, I don't see EA or MS as evil as they once were. MS in the 90's could be considered more "evil", and in the computing space, Google is more like the MS in the 90's, especially with the threats of anti-trust against Google with their ad deal with Yahoo!, but that's for another thread.

EA used to be like the old MS of the 90's, but they have definitely stopped that recently, and are having more focus on just doing EA Partners, and churning out some new IP's (Mirror's Edge and Dead Space for example), while keeping the old franchises alive and well (Madden, Fifa, etc).
 
nurizeko said:
I actually wish for the day EA dies, like a nice sudden collapse, so that the gaming industry finally has room to breath and begin anew.
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We share the same wish.

I would just LOVE it if some small developer filed an emminent domain suit against the property that EA's corporate headquarters sits on & actually won. Saying that the proceeds from the games they sold, in the building that they would place on the land EA owned, were to be put into a fund to grant wishes for terminally ill children. That way, everyone would win. Well everyone that mattered that is.

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-MRG
 
Iced_Eagle said:
First, it's a lot easier to develop for the 360 than it is a PS3, and I think that's very clear.
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I don't see the point. Yes, you are right. Does this mean that developers must be lazy and leave PS3 alone? When you are a big, wealthy corporation you can afford to have more developers on your payroll. Electronic Arts is a cross platform publisher. Microsoft is devoted to Games For Windows and XBox only, it's not a matter of how difficult PS3 is to develop for.
There are exception, ok, but this is the main direction.

Iced_Eagle said:
Vista exclusives are less clear. Sometimes the companies decide it's easier to test on just one OS (or else, there are a whole hell of alot more testing config's, and it will cost more money to test) rather than testing on two. Othertimes, and this is probably what is happening with Alan Wake, is that they will make it DirectX 10 only, and thus are artificially limited to Vista.
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Alan Wake is being developed for XB360 too, which is a DX9 machine. If they go for XB360 they can go for XP/DX9 with some simple and trivial coding. Have a look at the first videos of Alan Wake: not so impressive at all, they didn't make me think about some DX10 only magic. OK, they are upgrading things but I don't believe the fairy tale about AW being a DX10 game. There is more: Vista has clearly failed (not my opinion, see the statistics), so Vista exclusives are a suicide. This is Microsoft trying to force the market.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate or love EA or Microsoft. Simply told, in my opinion Microsoft has a greedy and ruthless way to support its business, while EA is more prone to cross platform games, which in my opinion are always a good thing.
 
V-Man339 said:
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LOL
EA Borg Cube "Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours." Prepare to be acquired
 
Don't worry. EA's bound to bankrupt thanks to our lovely new economy.
 
I would say because of our economy only the companies with loads of money like EA and activision blizzard will be left :(

and valve of course :)
 
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