EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

[Steve_OS]

Back in December, EA offered to purchase Codemasters for $1.2 billion, outbidding Take-Two in the process....

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[bigbuckeyeboi]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Dammit!

[TarHeelPhenom]

Big bank take little bank. Big bank always wins.

[poulka]

That’s the end of some great racing franchises.  Project cars consumed my codemasters.  Codemasters consumed by ea.  Let’s see, that’s the end of Project Cars, F1, and Dirt series as we know them.  Hate to say this here comes Dirt ultimate team, F1 ultimate team and no more project cars.  SMH sad day for us car/hard core racing guys.  Assetto here I come.

[Ronoko]

Re: EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

Goodbye Dirt rally series...........goodbye any realism in F1.

[Richzilla]

Re: EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

Yeah I cant believe too many gamers are excited about this.

That F1 game has been near perfect the last few years.

We went from a steakhouse burger to the two cheeseburger extra value meal.

Hope I'm wrong.

[poulka]

Also goodbye to Grid series as well though many may not miss that one.

[Dirkk1974]

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Be ready to draw cards for a better engine online. The more money you spend, the better the chances of building a competitive engine for Online Races.

[burter]

Well good thing I got f1 2020 to play till I can't anymore. EA about to ruin that series............

[RoyalKrimpet]

Re: EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

We need a sequel for Blur. I loved that game in college.

[capnlarge]

Re: EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

Maybe now that EA owns multiple studios that only make racing games, we can get a new Road Rash?

[brandon27]

Re: EA Officially Purchases Codemasters For $1.2 Billion

If they ruin this game, I just may never buy an EA product again. Which means I might as well sell my consoles since I only play sports games primarily and they've just got a monopoly. Surprised nobody has cracked down on them yet.

[poulka]

@brandon27 you said what I have been thinking along time.  EA is being a monopoly.  Football let’s buy NFL license for exclusiveness.   It killed all the variety we had in football games in the 90s and early 2000s.  Ever since football fans have suffered.  Now the same has happened with racing.  Slightly Mad Studios (purchased by codemasters) and codemasters themselves and both now gone along with the great racing titles they had.  How on earth can they just take over the market like that.  They have locks on football and racing.  Us the true fans of those sports are the ones suffering.  While EA gets richer and richer.