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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Because monopoly is so much more fun when you use real money.
All the more reason for me to NOT care about it... XD
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Papa Midnight
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.