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[hermes]

Wow, this has really ignited the schadenfreude in me
I shall throw a small private celebration if EA goes under!

I reckon most of the wealth of EA is locked up in IPs, which will be what someone buys it for.  The devs will mostly, unfortunately and probably, lose their jobs.  A friend of mine worked at EA for a while and he said sections of the code was recycled in franchise games, which enabled them to effectively have coders going into and out of projects through revolving doors.

[motorbitch]

id take ea for free.



haha. just kiddin. no, i wouldnt.

DIE YOU BIATCH!

[Tilla]

Honestly I don't see this as nearly as big a thing as you all seem to. They might be selling - it sounds more to me like they're exploring options to get some fresh money after some bad investments (SWTOR)

[EuchreJack]

Sort of an uncalled for statement, Sensei. What, exactly, did I do to make you feel this way about me? I haven't judged you to be quick on the flametrigger before. Does it actually anger you that I pointed out the inconsistencies in another person's logic?

I'll say it again: Soren Johnson is a man with an impressive resumé, and it confuses me that both him and Brian Reynolds (designer of fan favourite Alpha Centauri) have taken up roles at Zynga. Whether or not Soren Johnson was being paid unfairly by EA is irrelevant. Judging by some of his past work, Johnson was a high-level member of one of EA's design teams, apparently placed on "social gaming" oriented products.

What disturbs me even more is that Reynolds, the "Chief Game Designer" at Zynga, is responsible for Frontierville and Pioneer Trail, the latter of which was an opaque attempt to bypass The Learning Company's IP rights on Oregon Trail.

The guys operating over at Zynga are guys that a lot of us hero-worshipped when we were youths. We can't deny this, because our posts where we heap praise on them still exist on this forum. Why have our role models, whose work we now look back to as some of the best in the industry's history, forsaken the values they used to operate on? What does it mean for the future of the industry that our greatest minds are now working for one of our worst companies?

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I said something similar about the "greatest designer", Sid, a while back.  Things got ugly.  Please nobody ask for clarification, explanation, defense of past comments or disagreement, as I'd rather not discuss it at all other than mention that I said something.

I agree with you totally.

I'm a bit confused by the notion that EA will "fall" if it sells. Highly profitable companies are bought out by other companies all the time. It's not a "fall" at all.

Also, in the US, we have these wonderful things called "Bankruptcy Courts".  Before a company can die, it has to go through these courts twice.  That alone takes years.  Even if the worst possible thing happened at EA, they would still be around for another ten years.