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Dimrill
 Post subject: EA to become a bigger bag of shite than it already is.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 0:00 
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Kiss goodbye to things like Mirror's Edge appearing out of EA profit belching arsehole in the future boys and girls. They're cutting their workforce by 10% and closing some studios. Most tellingly there's this phrase as reported on EuroGonks:

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Along with the loss of jobs will be the loss of some games from the company's busy release schedule. "EA is implementing a plan to narrow its product portfolio to focus on hit games with higher margin opportunities," says the release.


More shovelware shit like their sports franchises ahoy!

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Doctor Glyndwr
 Post subject: Re: EA to become a bigger bag of shite than it already is.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 0:06 
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Dimrill wrote:
More shovelware shit like their sports franchises ahoy!
Hmm. Allow me to play Devil's Advocate here for a second.

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Now, the fact is that Mirror's Edge didn't sell well at all, and Dead Space didn't set the world on fire either. If you were head of a huge firm during a massive global recession, would you continue to commission risky titles that might be huge and might flop? Against a background when two of your much-hyped "new IPs" for 2008 had done pretty badly? I don't think I would. I'm not sure EA is to blame, they are only really following the market here.
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Dimrill
 Post subject: Re: EA to become a bigger bag of shite than it already is.
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Cripes. Breaking news is that they've made 1/2 of Valve redundant http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ea-redundancies-valve

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Master of dodgy spelling....

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Dimrill wrote:
Cripes. Breaking news is that they've made 1/2 of Valve redundant http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ea-redundancies-valve


nice link!!! lol

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Sitting balls-back folder

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Whhhhhhhy didn't I look at the actual URL first?
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 Post subject: Re: EA to become a bigger bag of shite than it already is.
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Just thank your lucky stars I didn't link to http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ea-sack-god

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I actually sat for five minutes watching the first one. Strangely hypnotic :)

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