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Ghoest
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:04:00 -
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Mythic the only other successful MMO company who I had any repect for just sold out to EA.
You are the only good guys left.
Wherever you went - here you are.
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Turiya Flesharrower
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:11:00 -
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Blizzard? NCSoft?
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Rutoo
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:16:00 -
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WestWood?
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Phoenix Lord
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
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DirtyHarry
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:21:00 -
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Originally by: Turiya Flesharrower
Blizzard? NCSoft?
Blizzard only cares about ś and NCSoft are ******* horrible, Lineage2 is a great game (by NCSoft) but they ban the good guys and let farmers carry on their merry way. Actually NCSoft Korea is fine, the parent company, but NCSoft NA customer service staff and GMs are hired off the shortbus imo.
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Valeo Galaem
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:24:00 -
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Originally by: Phoenix Lord
Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
Yes, they did - Westwood made Earth and Beyond.
but...
Originally by: Wikipedia
In 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). In response to what was perceived as an unwillingness to maintain the Westwood brand and independence from EA, many long-time employees quit over the next few years.
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Hllaxiu
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:24:00 -
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Edited by: Hllaxiu on 21/06/2006 01:24:41
Originally by: Phoenix Lord
Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
Earth and Beyond wasn't an MMO?
(edit: Of course, EnB was published by EA so it doesn't really count)
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Rutoo
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Posted - 2006.06.21 01:27:00 -
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Originally by: Valeo Galaem
Originally by: Phoenix Lord
Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
Yes, they did - Westwood made Earth and Beyond.
but...
Originally by: Wikipedia
In 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). In response to what was perceived as an unwillingness to maintain the Westwood brand and independence from EA, many long-time employees quit over the next few years.
Thank you,
I am Hoping CnC 3 Might Actually Be Good, Looks good so far
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Knerf
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:01:00 -
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dont forget Funcom
anarchy online was a great game for a little while
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Miss Overlord
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:02:00 -
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CCP remains privately owned and a icelandic company they wont sell out to EA.
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Zoltaris
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:09:00 -
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Yeah, otherwise, Oveur would have to change his nick to Over or Game Over 
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Miss Overlord
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:16:00 -
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game over would work best :P
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Eternal Fury
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:25:00 -
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ok. Did I miss something? Why would CCP sell the game to EA?
After the expansion that is comeing up in China, and the number of people wanting to BETA test it, it should show that the game will be at LEAST as popular there as it is in the rest of the planet.
So that should increase CCP's income more.
So why would they sell out?
Did I miss some news or something?
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Malthros Zenobia
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:49:00 -
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Originally by: Phoenix Lord
Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
Actually, at one point they were working on a C&C mmo-style project. Your unit would beable to upgrade from kills and stuff. seemed cool but not practical.
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Fierce Deity
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Posted - 2006.06.21 03:53:00 -
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CCP is rolling in the cash and they have no need for a publisher to distribute the game they don't need to sell out.
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ubah fo
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Posted - 2006.06.21 04:00:00 -
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I thought origin was doing fine but they sold out to EA.... IMO that was the final nail in the coffin for UO.
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Exile Devaltos
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Posted - 2006.06.21 04:07:00 -
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If CCP does sell out to EA then I'll roll over and cancel my subscription!
Then go live in a hole.
That aside, CCP is one of the best companies out there just because they look out for their memberbase.
Originally by: Wrangler
Thats odd, I always drink after dealing with you people.. 
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F'nog
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Posted - 2006.06.21 04:09:00 -
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Overreaction at its best. There isn't even a rumor that it's going to happen and we have people responding to it.
Originally by: Panzer Goddess
I podded wrangler, and all I got was this lousy forumban.
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Epyik
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Posted - 2006.06.21 04:30:00 -
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Not so much a reply to the highly improbable act of CCP "selling out" as much as it is a rant against EA. They (EA) have a habit of buying out companies for the sole intent of acquiring their intellectual property, slowly discarding all the original studio employees over time after cutting their pensions and benefits and whoring out their work for every last dollar they can. They've done it to several studios, Westwood wasn't the first and it wonĘt be the last either. Those who have the "honor" of having their company bought can look forward to crunching 80+ hour work weeks and holidays in order to meet unrealistic managerial expectations on release dates, without overtime!
On a somewhat unrelated note, any EA game I've purchased in the past few years has really left me feeling screwed. C&C titles are for all intensive purposes "forgotten about" a year after their release and never patched again. BF2 is also the only game I have ever played where every single patch has made the game worse than it was before ... </rant>
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Seradhin
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Posted - 2006.06.21 04:49:00 -
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Originally by: Malthros Zenobia
Originally by: Phoenix Lord
Originally by: Rutoo
WestWood?
They didnt make MMOs..
Actually, at one point they were working on a C&C mmo-style project. Your unit would beable to upgrade from kills and stuff. seemed cool but not practical.
It was called C&C sole survivor if I remember rightly, I beta tested it a little back in something like 1996/7, was good for some quick fun but nothing long term and very simplistic compared to modern MMOs.
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.06.21 05:20:00 -
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Originally by: Turiya Flesharrower
Blizzard? NCSoft?
That was a good one!
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Bria Andinean
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Posted - 2006.06.21 05:56:00 -
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sell out to EA? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
don't do it
don't
please don't you dare
no no no ... not going to happen
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.06.21 05:57:00 -
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If you(Ghoest) ever had a clue, then you'd know that would never happen.
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Mr Happ
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Posted - 2006.06.21 06:03:00 -
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Originally by: Gothikia
If you(Ghoest) ever had a clue, then you'd know that would never happen.
If you (Gothika) where ever noticed by ccp, they'd ban u k?
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Sjoor
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Posted - 2006.06.21 06:25:00 -
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Problem is that EA is kinda loaded in isk, the real isk. And I'm not sure if EA ever managed to enter china like CCP has done.
Wave the iskies around and if the owners get enough to hire 15 gallente exotic dancers for the rest of their earthly life, who knows what might happen.
Just hope it won't happen.
Been their with westwood, got sold to EA, within a year the game servers went offline and u could choose free EA crappy games as replacement, what a joke.
Think CCP stated a few times that they wouldn't sell out. Only future will tell how nice islandic people really are.
Sjoor
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