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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Dec 20th at 1:55pm 2004
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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Dec 20th at 1:55pm 2004
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by ribbz on Mon Dec 20th at 4:17pm 2004
Posted by ribbz on Mon Dec 20th at 4:17pm 2004
Who will stop this monster???!!
They are as bad as Microsoft in my book, just churning out the same old game with a new front end!!
Where is the love hey? 
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Posted by Hugh on Mon Dec 20th at 4:19pm 2004
The fact that they're able to churn out crappy games is because people are willing to buy it. "Oh my gawdz The Sims rox lolelrz it's just like real lifez0r!?!~1" Or something similar.
So even if they are rat bastards who deserve nothing better than to be smothered in the fiery brimstone of El Diablo, the people who buy it are equally rat bastards.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 4:24pm 2004
So do all the millions of add-on packs.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 4:24pm 2004
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The fact that they're able to churn out crappy games is because
people are willing to buy it. "Oh my gawdz The Sims rox lolelrz it's
just like real lifez0r!?!~1" Or something similar.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 4:28pm 2004
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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 4:28pm 2004
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The fact that they're able to churn out crappy games is because people are willing to buy it. "Oh my gawdz The Sims rox lolelrz it's just like real lifez0r!?!~1" Or something similar.
So even if they are rat bastards who deserve nothing better than to be smothered in the fiery brimstone of El Diablo, the people who buy it are equally rat bastards.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! 
The Sims sux0r5 ba11z!!! I fudging hate the sims. Next game they make: The Sims: Queer City.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 4:29pm 2004
Hey...I'd buy it.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 4:29pm 2004
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! The Sims sux0r5 ba11z!!! I fudging hate the sims. Next game they make: The Sims: Queer City.
The Sims sux0r5 ba11z!!! I fudging hate the sims. Next game they make: The Sims: Queer City.
Hey...I'd buy it.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Andrei on Mon Dec 20th at 6:07pm 2004
Posted by Andrei on Mon Dec 20th at 6:07pm 2004
I predict that, in less than 20 years, all games will sound like Barbie Adventures 15: Ken's Revenge, Socky Sock and Homosexual Pirate Island and I was a teenage monkey's-bladder etc.
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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 7:00pm 2004
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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 7:00pm 2004
? quoting Andrei
I predict that, in less than 20 years, all games will sound like Barbie Adventures 15: Ken's Revenge, Socky Sock and Homosexual Pirate Island and I was a teenage monkey's-bladder etc.
Lol that's so great! By then we will all be middle-aged or better arguing over Valve's new content delivery system that hooks straight to our neural network. Imagine...
SP user: "I just think it's ridiculous that I have to connect to the internetron to THINK about a single-player game!!!"
Vash: "Shut up and get used to it, idiot."
Lol your game titles sound a lot like the movie dscriptions on TV nowadays: "A drunken ex-cop and his homosexual partner track a transvestite junkie mob boss after the suspicious shooting of a reformed hooker at an upscale crack-house during the Macy's Parade." Seriously, some of them are THAT BAD...
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by pepper on Mon Dec 20th at 7:03pm 2004
Posted by pepper on Mon Dec 20th at 7:03pm 2004
omg, when will it stop that they buy up good company's!
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 7:04pm 2004
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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 7:04pm 2004
EA are the suck imo. I read somewhere an article written by an employee detailing the way that EA treat's its software houses, Infact I think it may even of been KFS that posted the link in the first place.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Gwil on Mon Dec 20th at 7:12pm 2004
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Posted by Gwil on Mon Dec 20th at 7:12pm 2004
It was, it was someones livejournal which told of how EA basically
blackmail people into rushing out projects under hard conditions. Nasty
company, mostly terrible games and overuse of licences and not quality
software to sell games.
It's a shame to see another company swallowed up (partially) to EA's Microsoft-esque ways. Can't say i'm too surprised that it's Ubisoft, correct me if im wrong but their lack of quality titles recently (ever?) probably means financial rocky ground, and inevitably takeover..
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 7:13pm 2004
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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Dec 20th at 7:13pm 2004
still sad though.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 20th at 7:15pm 2004
Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 20th at 7:15pm 2004
Maybe you guys are forgetting that UbiSoft almost has worse buisness practices then EA.
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Posted by Gwil on Mon Dec 20th at 7:17pm 2004
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Posted by Gwil on Mon Dec 20th at 7:17pm 2004
How can we forget something we didn't know? 
All I knew about Ubisoft
is that they make s**t games, cept maybe Prince of Persia - even the
sequel to that is a crock of s**t though.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Dec 20th at 7:20pm 2004
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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Dec 20th at 7:20pm 2004
Buh? Ubi has recently published, developed, or is publishing, games including the following:
beyond good and evil
prince of persia sot/ww
far cry
brothers in arms
r6 series
Even if you don't like these games, we're talking huge successes financially. They run multiple MASSIVE development studios (something like 500-600+ in their Montreal studio across multiple teams) and wrapped up in there have some of the top minds in the industry (well, Michel Ancel ).
As someone pointed out on another forum, what happens now is this: Ubi stock has surged from the buyout by EA. This is going to make a lot of people sell their shares and take the profits. Then EA snaps up what's left. And poof. And I don't expect the results will be good.
Ubi, Activision, and Take Two are the only ones that come to mind as being able to challenge the EA publishing machine. And if EA's going to pick them off one by one...
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beyond good and evil
prince of persia sot/ww
far cry
brothers in arms
r6 series
Even if you don't like these games, we're talking huge successes financially. They run multiple MASSIVE development studios (something like 500-600+ in their Montreal studio across multiple teams) and wrapped up in there have some of the top minds in the industry (well, Michel Ancel
).
As someone pointed out on another forum, what happens now is this: Ubi stock has surged from the buyout by EA. This is going to make a lot of people sell their shares and take the profits. Then EA snaps up what's left. And poof. And I don't expect the results will be good.
Ubi, Activision, and Take Two are the only ones that come to mind as being able to challenge the EA publishing machine. And if EA's going to pick them off one by one...
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 20th at 7:20pm 2004
Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 20th at 7:20pm 2004
UbiSoft has some games I like, Gwil ...
It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
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It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 8:05pm 2004
I liked the battlefield series.
It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
God bless the UK. I doubt you would get away with that over here. The fact that you are not allowing someone from working seems "outrageous".
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 8:05pm 2004
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EA are the suck imo
I liked the battlefield series.
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It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
God bless the UK. I doubt you would get away with that over here. The fact that you are not allowing someone from working seems "outrageous".
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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 8:10pm 2004
Who is he?, I've never heard of him. Will google it in a minute though.
btw $loth, My father was under the same contract with a past firm, and he's an insurance broker...
*holds that activision flag too*, They've never done anything wrong in my eyes, turok, quake, doom, all good with me.
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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 8:10pm 2004
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Michel Ancel
Who is he?, I've never heard of him. Will google it in a minute though.
btw $loth, My father was under the same contract with a past firm, and he's an insurance broker...
*holds that activision flag too*, They've never done anything wrong in my eyes, turok, quake, doom, all good with me.
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Re: EA buys 20% (well, 19.9) stake in UbiSoft
Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 8:12pm 2004
I just think that by saying that you cannot work with a rival once you've stopped working for us type of thing is sort of child-ish.
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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 8:12pm 2004
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btw $loth, My father was under the same contract with a past firm, and he's an insurance broker...
I just think that by saying that you cannot work with a rival once you've stopped working for us type of thing is sort of child-ish.
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Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 20th at 8:13pm 2004
I liked the battlefield series.
It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
God bless the UK. I doubt you would get away with that over here. The fact that you are not allowing someone from working seems "outrageous".
Erm, UbiSoft is a European based company.
Sloth, it doesn't matter, it makes it so people don't quit and they do whatever they can to not get fired. No suprise if EA practices leak in, what are the people going to do, leave?
I bet there's several law suits out against both companies.
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EA are the suck imo
I liked the battlefield series.
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It's just, when you sign a contract with UbiSoft (apparently) it has an article that says once you no longer work there you cannot work at any other game company for five years. They basically black list your name. In a five year span, you're basically f**ked. So, I don't know if you would consider that better or worse then EAs slave labor-ing.
God bless the UK. I doubt you would get away with that over here. The fact that you are not allowing someone from working seems "outrageous".
Erm, UbiSoft is a European based company.
Sloth, it doesn't matter, it makes it so people don't quit and they do whatever they can to not get fired. No suprise if EA practices leak in, what are the people going to do, leave?
I bet there's several law suits out against both companies.
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