EA buys 20% of UbiSoft

[KungFuSquirrel]

umm... Eep?

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap ... 20133.html

(well, 19.9, technically, but still...)

[kleinluka]

[KungFuSquirrel]

/me pets

[st0lve]

Does EA own a big part in EVERY single game dev. company? D:

Its going to be like Pizza Hut in Demolition Man

[insta]

Poor klein, soon he'll be working 200 hours overtime. Per day

[kleinluka]

you realize this isn't funny at all, don't you ?

[insta]

Yeah, you just told me on MSN.

[kleinluka]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/20/technol ... /index.htm

[Fullauto]

Eek.

I always saw Ubi as sort of the antithesis of EA. Let's hope this goes no further.

[ctswin]

get out of ubisoft while you still can, me thinks

[KungFuSquirrel]

you realize this isn't funny at all, don't you ?

Seriously, I hope this works out for the best for you guys, i.e. falls through. Right on the heels of this NFL exclusitivity thing, this starts painting a potentially very bleak future...

I mean, if EA can go for a company as large as Ubi... Yikes.

[ctswin]

If 'Beyond Good and Evil 2' came because of this (EAs like of sequels) it'd be the only good thing.

[Schmung]

Monopolies are bad and EA are really starting to scare me of late, they squeeze originality out of the games industry like a juicer.

[KungFuSquirrel]

If 'Beyond Good and Evil 2' came because of this (EAs like of sequels) it'd be the only good thing.

I wouldn't want it from EA. They probably wouldn't even let Ancel & co. do it

[kleinluka]

well it's official, I'll boycot EA games from now on.