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Im not a to big fan of EA. Not becouse the game's they make, but becouse they have already ruiend two of my favorite game publishers. Two years ago they bought up Westwood Studio's, the creators of the famous C&C game's. The company is ruiend now and the first game EA published in the C&C serie's after the take over was plain out crap.
Concidering Oddworld is developing into a pretty good game company with a lot of potential in the future, I just cant help it to think that EA might also buy up Oddworld Inhabitants after a few years. And on top of that, EA always wants to have their finger mixed in with the game, they always want to have a say in things which means that Lorna may not be able to make the game 'trully Odd' anymore which would be a real shame.
I just hope OWI will be carefull when contracting with EA...  |
Yeah, EA does have a reputation for buying good companies and turning them bad - look at Bullfrog. Peter Molyneaux lasted one game under EA and quit! BUT (and this is an important distinction) Peter went back to EA to publish Black and White. So we should be clear about the difference between EA as a game designer and as a publisher.
I really don't think Lorne will sell a majority stake in OWI to anyone, let alone a company with a reputation like EA.