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[Gamer79]

To me Electronic Arts sold its soul a long time ago. What once was a good company became a corporate company chasing trends. Looks like they are openly for sale. Would be interesting to see Apple or Amazon get them.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e...rge-with-another-company-report/1100-6503720/

 

[kingfey]

Oh GameSpot. Always late with news.

 

[Captain Toad]

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[oldergamer]

Again this entire story is BS. The ceo hasnt said anything about wanting to sell or merge at monthly town hall meetings to employees. So this story is pure fiction considering he answers questions like this by internal employees all the time.

 

[oldergamer]

This is your typical lazy repeat reporting. We see it all the time regarding articles that are not true in the game biz.

 

[kingfey]

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Its GameSpot. They are always late with news.
They are the Bing of gaming journalist.

 

[kingfey]

Again this entire story is BS. The ceo hasnt said anything about wanting to sell or merge at monthly town hall meetings to employees. So this story is pure fiction considering he answers questions like this by internal employees all the time.

Companies don't tell employees who they sell their companies to.
These type of stuff is tight lips.

Activision and Bethesda sales were super secret.

 

[NickFire]

Companies don't tell employees who they sell their companies to.
These type of stuff is tight lips.

Activision and Bethesda sales were super secret.

Yeah, I am definitely suspicious as to whether there is fire beneath all of this smoke, or if someone started a rumor that other people are running with for no reason. As you said, these blockbuster deals seem to hit us from no where usually.

If there is fire beneath this smoke though, I cannot figure out why would EA be looking to sell? Are the forecasting a big drop in gaming overall? Are they this worried about the FIFA license? Is Madden's name getting too expensive? Is there some industry trend no one knows about outside of board rooms? Are they looking at Battlefield as DOA going forward after the last one? I just don't get it. They would seem uniquely positioned to benefit from consolidation trends just by staying their course I would think.