Take-Two acquisition by EA imminent?

[Skyboxer]

Re: Take-Two acquisition by EA imminent?

From NFL to Nascar, EA has destroyed the genres with exclusive rights. They get the rights and then deliver sub par products every year. Heck even the ESPN stuff they've never utilized and just got it to keep others from using it.
Instead of Vader I'd say they are more like a cancer.
With thats said I don't want them to go away as the more developers the more competition.

[spankdatazz22]

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It doesn't bother me. I don't see why it bothers everyone else so much. Games will still come out, I'll still play them, and the sun will rise tomorrow.

Yeah, mediocre/bad ones lol. That's the real problem people have with EA - the [sports] games they've been putting out have been subpar. If the games were very good, people wouldn't be complaining as much despite not liking the lack of competition. Ultimately though, imo it's the consumers that allow EA to do what they do

[ExtremeGamer]

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From NFL to Nascar, EA has destroyed the genres with exclusive rights. They get the rights and then deliver sub par products every year. Heck even the ESPN stuff they've never utilized and just got it to keep others from using it.
Instead of Vader I'd say they are more like a cancer.
With thats said I don't want them to go away as the more developers the more competition.

Like 2K did with MLB?

[LBzrule]

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It's unfortunate for sports games, but I would look for this to happen

[jmood88]

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Like 2K did with MLB?

Good thing Take Two can't afford to buy more licenses and at least they still allow for competition.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Good thing Take Two can't afford to buy more licenses and at least they still allow for competition.

There was competition on the 360 for baseball games? I must have missed them allowing that.

I think if this was the other way around, all of you would be jumping for joy.

[jmood88]

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There was competition on the 360 for baseball games? I must have missed them allowing that.

I think if this was the other way around, all of you would be jumping for joy.

No there's competition on the ps3 and that one license still doesn't compare to the multitude of exclusive licenses that EA has and outside of EA no other company has tried so hard to pretty much ruin gaming with this exclusive crap. I wouldn't be jumping for joy if some other company had as bad of a history as EA does of taking licenses or companies and ruining them.

[CaptainZombie]

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I'm to the point that I hope EA buys them, just to watch the forums explode

You can put me in the camp that doesn't hate EA like 95% of the people here.

I don't hate EA, but this will be like the WWE..........EG you know how that works, you'll lose interest in them like yourself and many of us have lost some interest in wrestling with only 1 game in town.

[Pared]

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There was competition on the 360 for baseball games? I must have missed them allowing that.

I think if this was the other way around, all of you would be jumping for joy.

That's a reach, EG. There is at least one other officially licensed, adult oriented "sim-cade" baseball video game out there that is released yearly.

You can't say the same for football.

Who cares who has the "exclusive license?" I just want more than one option, and EA has proven they don't want the same.

[NYG_Meth]

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There was competition on the 360 for baseball games? I must have missed them allowing that.

I think if this was the other way around, all of you would be jumping for joy.

Exclusivity is bad for gamers. It doesn't matter if it's EA, or Take-Two, or anybody else. It's just bad. It's as simple as that.

[mgoblue]

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That's a reach, EG. There is at least one other officially licensed, adult oriented "sim-cade" baseball video game out there that is released yearly.

You can't say the same for football.

Who cares who has the "exclusive license?" I just want more than one option, and EA has proven they don't want the same.

I know you want more than one option, and that's what I want...I do sorta feel that some here have a vendetta against EA and would love for 2k to be in EA's position. I personally don't like either company better than the other and I know if 2k had licenses we'd be just as screwed.

I want competition and good games...some just hate EA and that's a different, more biased story

[ExtremeGamer]

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No there's competition on the ps3 and that one license still doesn't compare to the multitude of exclusive licenses that EA has and outside of EA no other company has tried so hard to pretty much ruin gaming with this exclusive crap. I wouldn't be jumping for joy if some other company had as bad of a history as EA does of taking licenses or companies and ruining them.

So, if EA buys Take Two, they are suddenly the only company releasing games?

Do you honestly believe that EA will buy Take Two and shut down everything like Microsoft did with High Heat?

Besides NBA2K and College Hoops 2K, both of which are very sub-par this year, the only other Take Two game I could care about is Grand Theft Auto.

[jmood88]

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That's a reach, EG. There is at least one other officially licensed, adult oriented "sim-cade" baseball video game out there that is released yearly.

You can't say the same for football.

Who cares who has the "exclusive license?" I just want more than one option, and EA has proven they don't want the same.

Football, FIFA, NASCAR etc. We're lucky the NBA told them no or else we'd be stuck with Live as the only NBA game.

[CaptainZombie]

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I know you want more than one option, and that's what I want...I do sorta feel that some here have a vendetta against EA and would love for 2k to be in EA's position. I personally don't like either company better than the other and I know if 2k had licenses we'd be just as screwed.

I just want things to go back to how they were where any developer can go ahead and make a sports game without having to worry about exclusives. When we had 4-5 football games out a year, yes it hurt the wallet + there was some crap in there, but it helped spark competition.

[ExtremeGamer]

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That's a reach, EG. There is at least one other officially licensed, adult oriented "sim-cade" baseball video game out there that is released yearly.

You can't say the same for football.

Who cares who has the "exclusive license?" I just want more than one option, and EA has proven they don't want the same.

2K had the chance, they didn't buy the NFL license. Everyone blames EA, were they supposed to let 2K have it? That would have been wonderful as IMO ESPN NFL2K5 is the most overrated game ever released.