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Looks like we wont see another great game from either of those two

R.I.P

Bioware

Ugh....

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I wonder if this will have any effect on the Mass Effect trilogy, and a possible KOTOR 3?

well MS paid for the rights so.

its still theirs.

What' s wrong with EA?

They have been focusing on quality over quantity and on new IP' s recently. Look at Skate and ProStreet.

This is a good move, if only because it allows both Pandemic and Bioware to create whatever they want with no financial worries. Mass Effect is the first in a trilogy so we' ll be seeing more of that, and Pandemic won' t change much. The only possible downside is if experienced staff start leaving.

During the last 10 years everythign EA made have been rushed. Still be nice if it wasnt true, but i doubt it!

Official EA press conference begins.

Peter Moore walks slowly from behind a curtain, and approaches the stand. Strangely he doesn' t say anything, but only pulls down his pants to reveal a tatoo of Bioware on the left buttock, followed by a tatoo of Pandemic on the other buttock.

He raises his arms in the air and shouts, " I am the king of the world!!!!" .

Seriously though, I agree with Nitro. Surprisingly enough EA has been putting out some quality titles lately. Looks as though they have switched focus to quality over quantity.

RIP Bioware

The money and the rhetoric draws devs in the end. Some manage to use EA for finance or distribution needs only which seems to work.

I still cant trust EA, I haven' t played skate. or the next NFS, but I dont think they' re making better games, just being forced to be more clever as people inevitably wise up.

Mass effect coming to the ps3 late 2008 i think so.

lol if ya cant beat em JOIN em i guess

Is that at their HQ office? lucky ****

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Is that at their HQ office? lucky ****

No, that' s EA Black Box. They just did Skate and are just about finished with ProStreet.

Now that' s really sad. I had a job offer from EA a few months ago to go and work as an linguistic tester for them but, in the end, decided to pass on the opportunity because I didn' t like EA' s games. And now they go and buy one of my favourite devs. The world is cruel!

Mass effect coming to the ps3 late 2008 i think so.

I think MS has the rights to ME

The Mass Effect IP is owned by Bioware, now owned by EA. Microsoft is publishing the first game. Subsequent sequels will be published on any platform EA deems worthy. EA will be able to publish the first Mass Effect game for PS3 but will likely pass. Why bother? The Install base on the PS3 is to low to justify the expense of porting it over. If it' s a AAA, " killer app" , GOTY, gauranteed to make money (even a year after its been released on 360 and ported over), maybe. If someone can convince the japanese to play a western rpg, definitely. The sequels will be multi-platform without a doubt.

R.I.P. Bioware. Sellouts! Sellouts for 0.8 Billion but sellouts nonetheless.

How do the bioware executives sleep at night?

In a big bed stuffed with money, a beautiful woman on each shoulder.

We aproaching the age where the smaller companies won' t survive unless they get gobbled up by a bigger fish. You can expect to see a lot more of this, especially in the videogame industry.

another bad sign from MS that they are quitting, Bizzare, then bungie then freaking bioware !!

why would MS give up on it' s 2nd party developers unless they are quitting in a year or so? i don' t know what bioware' s deal with microsoft , but it used to released exclusives on its platforms , now that it' s owned by EA what willl happen?

notice that the 3 studios are the joker cards for MS yet they let them slip.. that' s fucking weird, now who says that MS is probably placing an ask price for Mistwalker or rareware ? it' s possible and the reason why they are not sold yet is may be big publishers don' t see them attractive enough ?

On another note, people are complaining about the lack of titles in 2008 for the 360, i don' t think tah' s the problem, in fact 2008 might be greater than 2007 and we have already discussed this, the problem is in 2009 !! ALMOST all epic games had their first announcement at least 2 years before their release on the market... seeing that MS hasn' t announced almost any new titles except for the rpg from squareenix and some crap games, none has been announced from 1st an 2nd parties. Games should be annunced today for 2009 or TBA, otherwise we might witness the end of the xbox legacy in 2009.

What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Microsoft quitting (whoever thinks so is a complete moron anyway). Bioware was never owned by Microsoft, they are not " giving up" anything, and EA' s decision to buy the parent company of Bioware will not in any way effect the titles they have in store for the 360.

Get back to reality please. You' re just making yourself look foolish.