Street.com Columnist: EA Could "Kill the Spirit" of Take Two
Street.com Columnist: EA Could "Kill the Spirit" of Take Two
February 25, 2008
GamePolitics sought reaction to EA's run at Take Two from Priya Ganapati, who has written frequently about Take Two for TheStreet.com.
I am surprised but not shocked. This is the best time to bid for Take-Two before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. If EA buys Take-Two it stands to make significant financial gains--which fits in with [EA CEO] John Riccitiello's recent financial goals set for the company.
But the bigger question is can EA stomach Take-Two, its baggage and the controversies that it brings with it? EA's corporate culture probably will clamp down and sanitize Take-Two, which will kill the spirit of the company. And I do think that the Rockstar folks will take off if the merger goes through - which negates the point of the deal.
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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Because monopoly is so much more fun when you use real money.
All the more reason for me to NOT care about it... XD
Kill is just to simple a word. They don't kill anything. They assimilate anything they touch into bland mediocrity. Once the original staff is fed up enough with the water constantly being added to their games, they quit or are forced out and replaced with what I think are robots programmed to release the same game over and over again each year with minimal changes.
we'd end up with watereddown gta expantion packs.
The Rockstar guys will just split off, and Ken Levine wouldn't stay for long.
I'd prefer Ubisoft over EA, and thats saying something!!
You'll get the initial GTA game - where you can get in the car and get a simple handgun. If you want to do anymore, you'll need the expansion pack..
Rinse, Repeat.
I bought the newest expansion for the Sims 2 - due to installation issues, it's sitting, uninstalled. I don't feel up to reinstalling the original game and all like 8 expansion packs again.
EA seen the last of my purchases with that, it's just too much of a hassle.
We were asked to make a video game version of monopoly and we took it way too literally.
I have to say that I'm not particularly worried about GTA being sucked dry. There have been enough installments in the franchise for me. What alarms me is that Take Two owns 2K Sports. This takeover would be the final deathblow to competition in American football games.
What a load of rubbish. Priya seems to be under the impression EA are paying $2 billion just to get hold of GTA. EA are after T2 for the sport titles. Of course they'd would like to get publishing rights to GTA but that's hardly going to be a deal breaker.
End of story.
The GTA and Bully franchises will get raped to death by numerous sequals, and Bioshock as well. Which is sad considering Bioshock works better as a single game.
At the same time, the developers at Rockstar and Irrational can go elseway and be innovative.
I doubt that 2K sports is the main focus of this deal, considering how close it is to the release of GTA IV. Sure, having a monopoly on American football would be nice, but having GTA and Bioshock would seem much more appealing to me.
Shame on you EA for killing good games, may your own souls burn like the souls you have sucked out of some good healthy projects!
Oh come on man, whats the worst that could happen? Call Of GTA: Rapture where you drive 1940s cars around an underwater city doing drivebys on splicers that respawn infinitely unless you deactivate the trigger and taking missions from random big daddys on the street to whack other big daddys that have been trying to usurp his control over his little hook... sisters? I mean imagine the fun you could have in massively multiplayer online games...
God I feel like I need a shower for just thinking about that. A shower or a punch in the head...
I don't want EA to buy Take Two either.... but i don't hate EA. heck, I LIKE EA.
I do hate GTA though.