EA buys Pandemic and BioWare

News Portal · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:14 am

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You may have heard the rumours, but it is my duty to inform you that yes - Electronic Arts has acquired VG Holding Corp., who owns both BioWare and Pandemic Studios.

Both of these companies have created some of the best-quality games in the industry (BioWare bringing NeverWinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as Pandemic's Destroy All Humans!, Full Spectrum Warrior and Dark Reign 2) which will give EA a much-needed boost in the areas of action, adventure and role-playing games.

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Bronze_D · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:20 am

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we are soooo screwed...

Trifan · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:29 am

O000 NOES!!!!
next thing you know they will buy bungie and fuk up halo universe. :cry:

R.I.P.
BioWare & Pandemic

SuBw00FeR · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:31 am

Trifan wrote:

O000 NOES!!!!
next thing you know they will buy bungie and fuk up halo universe. :cry:

R.I.P.
BioWare & Pandemic

Bungie sold Halo to microsoft, It may as well of been sold to EA :/

But R.I.P any further Neverwinter Nights, it'll probably turn into an FPS :/

RDX-SpYkEs · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:31 am

o noes.... i liked the Baulders Gate series too. dammit.

Darkhart · **Joined:** 13 Jun 04, 4:50 pm **Posts:** 137

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Nooooo, pleeeaaase, not my Bioware!!

:cry:

This is a very, very sad day.

Spoticus · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 10:58 am

RIP Bioware and Pandemic

oh and fsck EA

shortboard · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 11:05 am

Awesome!

Whitewulf_ · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 11:11 am

I think its great !!!

just cant wait for the new games that they will make to come out

Battlefield3 :Neverwinter Night,
Battlefield 2142 addon = fight at Baulders Gate
Battlefield 4: Biowar

DXPetti · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 11:36 am

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

>XaartaX< · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 12:08 pm

EA bought out Mythic as well earlier this year. From all reports it seems that EA can keep their hands off if need be (assuming what Mythic reps have said in interviews is true).

Of course it depends on what T&C Bioware & EA agreed to..

Shaolin$alesman · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 12:32 pm

Whitewulf_ wrote:

I think its great !!!

just cant wait for the new games that they will make to come out

Battlefield3 :Neverwinter Night,
Battlefield 2142 addon = fight at Baulders Gate
Battlefield 4: Biowar

lol gold

Shaolin$alesman · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 12:33 pm

>XaartaX< wrote:

EA bought out Mythic as well earlier this year. From all reports it seems that EA can keep their hands off if need be (assuming what Mythic reps have said in interviews is true).

Of course it depends on what T&C Bioware & EA agreed to..

they agreed to cut funding to thier games then pump out lots of expansions that are more like mods than anything else

sh0v0r · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 1:09 pm

EA is currently going through allot of changes since John Riccitiello became CEO he was the guy that originally brought Pandemic and Bioware together with Elevation.

I think you will see a big change in the way EA does things compared to the passed.

Don't forget that Spore and Crysis are both funded by EA.

EA has a really good line up of quality games coming out, it's easy to bash them because of their passed actions and because hey're such a massive corporation but things are changing for the better.

Acaila · **Posted:** 12 Oct 07, 1:52 pm

This is not good news. :-/

EA owning more and more developers = less diversity in the industry.

You can talk about "new CEO", "change of direction" all you want, fact is its still 1 corporation and one board making the decisions on what to make.

That includes budgets, resource allocation, etc

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