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Lol, you've completely failed to understand what's going on.
EA will be the DISTRIBUTOR. Do you know what that means? That means they'll be shoving disks into boxes and sending them to shops. WHOO! So much for your big conspiracy theory about it taking over all the developers. Seriously if that's what they were really doing they'd get busted for monopoly quicker than you can say "EA dominance ftw!".
The only reason EA get games off of developers is because those developers are going out of business and they're trying to sell off their game to make enough money back to avoid having to live on the streets. They rarely ever take over fully operational companies unless it's a merger, in which case they keep all the original staff and the games themselves are unaffected.
I'll tell you now for nothing; Blizzard, Valve, Ubisoft, Sierra, etc. (all the big game companies) will remain seperate from EA, because everyone in the industry knows that EA suck big, executive balls.
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Thats what I meant when I said EA would only be a publisher. Only stocking boxes ect.
Thats how it started with Westwood... and they were one of the top developers, I doubt they had any problems with their money flow and EA bought them up, didn't they?
EA is slowly but surely TRYING to take over the gaming market and you know it. Go to your local store and see how many games carry the EA logo. Go check some random gaming forum and see how many complaints there are about EA games.
Everyone hates them becouse they ruien great gaming company's. Heck, they came close to messing up Oddworld as well. Need I remind you that they own 49% of the stocks in OWI? Thats 2% away from messing up a good company.
I know/hope that Valve knows what their doing. Cuz it would be a shame to see them go down the drain.