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Title: Microsoft dev-buying bingo: place ya bets!
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 02:29:59 PM
https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/29/16930892/xbox-one-exclusive-games-analysis-microsoft

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/958055036050968576

Well, that's one way to get exclusives for your failing system.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 29, 2018, 02:35:46 PM
this is dumb
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 29, 2018, 02:45:42 PM
Microsoft opened a premium loot box hoping to get a 5* EA, Valve, or PUBG Corp,  but instead it got a 3* Deep Silver.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 29, 2018, 02:51:37 PM
Only thing I've cared about from EA for a while now is Bioware and they're dead to me after throwing Mass Effect in the mud and then killing it, so MS can do what they want here and it won't bother/interest me.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: mormapope on January 29, 2018, 02:51:47 PM
Well, that's one way to get exclusives for your failing system.

Im sure if Nintendo was about to buy EA, you'd be hard as rock.

EA hasnt produced a decent game besides Bf4 and BF1 this gen. Microsoft getting involved cant make EA any more mediocre than they have been this gen.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 02:58:22 PM
Well, that's one way to get exclusives for your failing system.

Im sure if Nintendo was about to buy EA, you'd be hard as rock.

Of course, cause then it'd mean a goddamn NHL game for the Switch. :maf

Also the Bone is objectively doing much the worst of the three current-gen systems. :miyamoto
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 03:11:20 PM
But yeah, I'm starting to think if this is an actual thing that can/will happen then MS is going third party fo sho.

The consumer in me would be sad to see less competition, but the gamer in me mostly wouldn't give a fuck and would enjoy a return to the PS1/N64 duopoly days.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 03:15:39 PM
Thinking about it he's basically the only one they could put in Smash except Rare's stuff. :lol
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: agrajag on January 29, 2018, 03:31:55 PM
I guess it'd be good for MS as an extra revenue stream, because there is no way they wouldn't still release their tentpole games on multiple platforms. If they go MS exclusivr, the revenue from those games wouldn't cover the budgets.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: agrajag on January 29, 2018, 03:33:13 PM
And if that doomsday scenario comes to fruition, it would just galvanize the competition to fill EA's niche on other platforms. This move would really hurt EA than anything, imo.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Svejk on January 29, 2018, 04:02:24 PM
All those IP's will just become Minecraft versions now...

Minecraft Effect
Dragoncraft Age
Maddencraft
 :doge
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Momo on January 29, 2018, 04:06:01 PM
company who's shit i dont care for buys company who's shit i dont care for  :idont
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 04:23:16 PM
company who's shit i dont care for buys company who's shit i dont care for  :idont

Pretty much how I feel lol.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: thisismyusername on January 29, 2018, 04:30:53 PM
Is EA in dire-straits or something? I dunno why EA would need a purchase.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: thisismyusername on January 29, 2018, 04:38:17 PM
EA hasnt produced a decent game besides Bf4 this gen.

FTFY. And BF4 is only because EA had to fix the massive fuck-up of a launch and actually supported the goddamn thing for two-three years.

This latest entry in the series? Died on the vine, and EA is close to cancelling their "year of support" (which is actually going on 2 years now) of DLC that was supposed to be like 5 DLC packs in the past, but is only like 2-3 now.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: CrazyDiamond on January 29, 2018, 04:50:29 PM
All those IP's will just become Minecraft versions now...

Minecraft Effect
Dragoncraft Age
Maddencraft
 :doge

So basically the Lego franchise but uglier
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 29, 2018, 05:14:20 PM
If MS were really looking to acquire a big publisher to bolster their first party output that makes sense for their player base i'm kinda surprised it's not Bethesda. Not sure how that would work out with Zenimax, though.

Zenimax is just an umbrella for the different studios operating under it, it's not significantly separate from Bethesda that somebody could buy one without the other. It's also privately owned by a very small group of investors, so it wouldn't be as easy to buy as EA [which has over 93% of it's stock owned by outside parties]. Which is not to say that it couldn't happen, but they'd have to either make a really great pitch or offer up a ton of money, and in the case of the former they don't have a good pitch since Bethesda does as well as it does by releasing their games on every system available.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: eleuin on January 29, 2018, 05:33:16 PM
EA hasnt produced a decent game besides Bf4 this gen.

FTFY. And BF4 is only because EA had to fix the massive fuck-up of a launch and actually supported the goddamn thing for two-three years.

This latest entry in the series? Died on the vine, and EA is close to cancelling their "year of support" (which is actually going on 2 years now) of DLC that was supposed to be like 5 DLC packs in the past, but is only like 2-3 now.
:confused

We talking about BF1? There's going to be 4 in total, 3 have already been released. It isn't the 5 packs of 3/4 but cancelling things? C'mon son

It isn't hard to google these things. Died on the vine? Titanfall 2 died on the vine
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: mormapope on January 29, 2018, 05:50:17 PM
If Microsoft bought EA, theyd get Respawn Entertaiment, right?

Halo could use Respawn.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Nabbis on January 29, 2018, 06:06:20 PM
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: thisismyusername on January 29, 2018, 06:27:12 PM
EA hasnt produced a decent game besides Bf4 this gen.

FTFY. And BF4 is only because EA had to fix the massive fuck-up of a launch and actually supported the goddamn thing for two-three years.

This latest entry in the series? Died on the vine, and EA is close to cancelling their "year of support" (which is actually going on 2 years now) of DLC that was supposed to be like 5 DLC packs in the past, but is only like 2-3 now.
:confused

We talking about BF1? There's going to be 4 in total, 3 have already been released.

Go check the CTE subreddit. DICE-LA has given up on the game. There's barely anything going on. I highly doubt the 4th will happen. If it does, great. But it was a complete waste of my money and time. I could've just stuck with BF4 which like 90% of the PC base did.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: toku on January 29, 2018, 06:37:46 PM
good, let it all burn
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: VomKriege on January 29, 2018, 06:47:04 PM
Match made in heaven of publishers merciless to their studios...

Wouldn't buying EA be incredibly, stupidly expensive though ?
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: mormapope on January 29, 2018, 06:53:42 PM
Match made in heaven of publishers merciless to their studios...

If we bothered to look up how many studios Sony has axed, it would eclipse Microsoft I feel. Microsoft playing it safe and their IPs being boring? That's valid criticism. Microsoft being considered a grindhouse like EA? Makes zero sense to me.

I could be misinterpreting what youre saying.

Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: agrajag on January 29, 2018, 06:56:02 PM
Lol M$ would Rareware EA  :doge
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Let's Cyber on January 29, 2018, 07:04:58 PM
So now EA can eventually be taken out back and shot in the head? This feels like karmic justice to me.

 :shaq
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: VomKriege on January 29, 2018, 07:13:30 PM
Match made in heaven of publishers merciless to their studios...

If we bothered to look up how many studios Sony has axed, it would eclipse Microsoft I feel. Microsoft playing it safe and their IPs being boring? That's valid criticism. Microsoft being considered a grindhouse like EA? Makes zero sense to me.

I could be misinterpreting what youre saying.

Yeah my joke relied on MS reputation quite a few years ago, around the time of GFWL maybe ? Not sure it holds true today.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: mormapope on January 29, 2018, 07:21:18 PM
Match made in heaven of publishers merciless to their studios...

If we bothered to look up how many studios Sony has axed, it would eclipse Microsoft I feel. Microsoft playing it safe and their IPs being boring? That's valid criticism. Microsoft being considered a grindhouse like EA? Makes zero sense to me.

I could be misinterpreting what youre saying.

Yeah my joke relied on MS reputation quite a few years ago, around the time of GFWL maybe ? Not sure it holds true today.

The big cancelations or closures I can think of are Lionhead, Phantom Dust, Scalebound, probably many Rare projects, Crackdown 3 being in some weird development hell.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Raist on January 29, 2018, 07:40:42 PM
 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

EA's market cap is like $30B.

I somehow doubt MS investors would be all giddy about blowing that kind of amount on an acquisition after the metric fuckton of cash the Xbox division has already been bleeding.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: MMaRsu on January 29, 2018, 07:53:35 PM
Never happening
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: tiesto on January 29, 2018, 11:13:06 PM
Thinking about it he's basically the only one they could put in Smash except Rare's stuff. :lol

You sure you don't want Vexx or Voodoo Vince?  :P
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: tiesto on January 29, 2018, 11:14:22 PM
company who's shit i dont care for buys company who's shit i dont care for  :idont

Aside from the first 3 Mass Effect games (Jade Empire wasn't EA, right?), I don't think I've bought an EA game since NHL 95.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: bork on January 29, 2018, 11:16:36 PM
company who's shit i dont care for buys company who's shit i dont care for  :idont

Aside from the first 3 Mass Effect games (Jade Empire wasn't EA, right?), I don't think I've bought an EA game since NHL 95.

You should really try the first Mirror's Edge.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 29, 2018, 11:24:18 PM
They're likely not going to buy EA, but they're definitely buying someone.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: El Babua on January 29, 2018, 11:30:00 PM
At this point, I think Valve would be too much for MS.

May try to acquire a smaller pub, or some IPs.

It seems the company as a whole is putting less focus on XBOX in particular, and more towards building an ecosystem. Considering the whole point of the original XBOX was to prevent Sony from owning the living room - while getting completely run over when mobile came along - I think they'll be more conservative and just try to get as much of their stuff on as many things as possible.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: bluemax on January 30, 2018, 01:22:40 AM
Yep but goddamn sports games have been spinning their wheels for so long(specifically in soccer, football and baseball) that I'd love a huge shakeup there.

As someone who plays Madden every year for hundreds of hours I disagree to an extent. But with 6 month dev cycles there is only so much they can do.

Also its weird I didn't hear shit about this rumor at work today.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 30, 2018, 01:51:21 AM
At this point, I think Valve would be too much for MS.

Valve doesn't really make sense for MS if their goal is to bolster the Xbone's stable of exclusives in the next couple of years.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 30, 2018, 02:24:26 AM
However, Valve does make sense in terms of service/platform-building that MS has been focusing on under Nadella.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Raist on January 30, 2018, 02:52:41 AM
I don't see Newell selling out Valve to MS.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on January 30, 2018, 02:58:12 AM
I don't see Newell selling out Valve to MS.

Me either. He really loves his autonomy.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: chronovore on January 30, 2018, 07:26:32 AM
So now EA can eventually be taken out back and shot in the head? This feels like karmic justice to me.

 :shaq

I literally LOL'd.

Yeah, I suspect there are a lot of ex-Bullfrog, ex-Westwood, ex-Maxis, etc. who would get a good chuckle out of it.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: tiesto on January 30, 2018, 07:01:59 PM
company who's shit i dont care for buys company who's shit i dont care for  :idont

Aside from the first 3 Mass Effect games (Jade Empire wasn't EA, right?), I don't think I've bought an EA game since NHL 95.

You should really try the first Mirror's Edge.

Actually, I did play that... oh yeah, forgot about it :P
A flawed but unique game.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 30, 2018, 08:37:58 PM
Hey, PvZ:GW is also a great game.

Sequel kinda sucked tbh
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Huff on January 30, 2018, 09:34:56 PM
Doesn’t really make sense with the way MS is going.

But not sure is care either way
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: chronovore on January 30, 2018, 11:38:04 PM
Hey, PvZ:GW is also a great game.

Sequel kinda sucked tbh

Yeah, sequel had a lot of weird decisions made. The original was elegant and fun.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 31, 2018, 12:31:45 AM
I liked the more streamlined gameplay of BF1, but they really should have just gone back to WW2 if they were bent on going retro. They were really reaching with some of those "WWI" weapons and vehicles. And they totally misread people's lack of enthusiasm for season passes nowadays (then taking forever to deliver maps helped exactly 0%).
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Corporal on January 31, 2018, 12:42:37 AM
Not sure MS can get that sort of heavy duty investment past their shareholders.

Oh well. If it happens, it happens. Not like it'll affect me.

Some people will splooge their pants at the thought of EA Access and Game Pass merging together, though.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2018, 02:42:45 AM
I liked the more streamlined gameplay of BF1, but they really should have just gone back to WW2 if they were bent on going retro. They were really reaching with some of those "WWI" weapons and vehicles. And they totally misread people's lack of enthusiasm for season passes nowadays (then taking forever to deliver maps helped exactly 0%).
honestly i was hoping they were setting up for revisiting WW2 next and that they straight up called it Battlefield 2 like the original didn't exist

but i wonder if CoD stepped in the way
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: bluemax on January 31, 2018, 02:53:54 AM
Yep but goddamn sports games have been spinning their wheels for so long(specifically in soccer, football and baseball) that I'd love a huge shakeup there.

As someone who plays Madden every year for hundreds of hours I disagree to an extent. But with 6 month dev cycles there is only so much they can do.

Also its weird I didn't hear shit about this rumor at work today.

NFL 2K5 is my favorite sports sim of all time and I still haven't played a football game since because of that EA deal. That's why I'd love for license shenanigans to happen to I can get my 2K back.

2k Stans  :goty2

People who blame EA for the NFL's choice :beli

It's 2018, I can't believe these things still exist.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on January 31, 2018, 07:47:34 AM
2k1 for the Dreamcast is one of my fondest memories of gaming. Being able to play your classmates and then talk shit to them at school the next day was some truly revolutionary shit back in the day. I gave even less of a shit about football then than I do now and still had a blast with the multiplayer.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: benjipwns on February 01, 2018, 01:59:40 AM
not being a football nut i think i sorta liked the more arcadey yet still sim vibes of 2K1-2K3 than where the series started to head, though it was still fun (and full of endless content AND A POLYGONAL CHRIS BERMAN) and never as clinical as Madden, though i haven't played a Madden since 08 i had for years

2K very quickly captured the "feel" of grinding out yards up the field over the course of an extended drive that was compelling due to the animations and how the players interacted, while Madden spent five years or more having robotic models that would hold in positions while engaging in nonsensical collision

never blamed EA though, the NFL offered exclusivity to multiple parties, even if they probably preferred the Madden brand/relationship and were very much not pleased with 2K's $20 price move that EA dropped to $40 to compete with

one thing we can thank David Stern for, he didn't see the point of exclusivity like the NFL and MLB wanted so bad, the more licenses the merrier...though EA sorta wound up giving 2K a defacto monopoly
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: team filler on February 01, 2018, 04:50:25 AM
quarterback club still the goat
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 01, 2018, 09:31:22 PM
Honestly haven’t cared about a football game since Blitz on the 64, so
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Kurt Russell on February 05, 2018, 02:03:56 PM
It would make more sense for them to buy and reverse merger into Sega: A ton of IP, a history that they don't currently have, (slightly) more credibility in Asia, a viable mascot that isn't fucking master chief. In addition, the vast majority of Sega coin-ops would make excellent reboot candidates.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: Tasty on February 05, 2018, 04:08:45 PM
That fits. I remember one of the early Xbox memes was that it was the new Dreamcast or some shit.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: mormapope on February 05, 2018, 04:11:41 PM
Xbox got all the cool Sega games that gen. Meanwhile, all the Sonic trash got ported to the Gamecube, along with Billy Hatcher.
Title: Re: Rumor: Microsoft to buy EA
Post by: CrazyDiamond on February 05, 2018, 04:18:51 PM
Please no, I don't wanna get an Xbox to play my Atlus shit
Title: Re: Microsoft dev-buying bingo: place ya bets!
Post by: Raist on February 05, 2018, 06:27:02 PM
Whatever they end up buying,

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/594/687/59a.jpg)
Title: Re: Microsoft dev-buying bingo: place ya bets!
Post by: Sho Nuff on February 05, 2018, 08:34:16 PM
wrong thread ugh, but good luck with that MS