EA Finishes Acquiring DICE 34
After a quite protracted struggle, Next Generation is reporting that EA has completed acquisition of Digital Illusions CE. From the article: "As part of the agreement, DICE CEO Patrick Söderlund will become an EA Studio general manager. Other DICE leaders will retain their roles in Stockholm. DICE and EA have had a tight working relationship over recent years. 'We've been working very closely with EA for the past five years and this is a very natural step for us as we move into the next generation of gaming,' said Söderlund. To complete the acquisition, EA acquired all of the assets and liabilities of DICE. Shareholders in the studio, which represent about 2.6 million shares, will receive SEK 67.50 ($9.23) per share in cash, which will be paid out on October 16."
Acquiring DICE? (Score:4, Funny)
*ducks*
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Struggling for five years. (Score:1, Insightful)
First a struggle, and then peace!
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I hold out no hope for DICE to survive the once great world of EA.
Natural Step (Score:1)
They've done it many times in the past, where they buy a game, develop it under their name, and they don't let the designers do what they wanted. The game changes, it comes out and people don't buy it.
Please let DICE do their own thing... ya, they have your name, you can approve/disapprove of certain things, but don
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Where do you think the afformentioned "struggles" came from? As an example, BF1942. It owned so much. You had so much free form area, the maps were large.. BF2 is an abomination (with better graphics) compared to what bf1942+DC was. The maps are tightly encircled, so that you can only go basically, where the "story" of the map puts you. You can tell its bad coding, It couldnt handle huge ass maps with the updated graphics. I am sure EA sacrafices gameplay for graphics. I
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You make a game with awesome graphics, but 40 hours of gameplay. The people get bored and buy a new game. The cycle repeats.
Downside? People lose respect for the games that they don't get enjoyment out of. They stop buying games from them. Then they try to make a better game, get bought out by a larger company, and make games like The Matrix: The Path of Neo...
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I played for 5 years, then quit. Time to move onto new things.
Hmmm tasty dice (Score:1)
EA confuses me... (Score:3, Funny)
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Dice is actually a pretty decent group, Battlefield has been published by EA since 2 at least, which means it's time for EA to dig in and eat up and spit out Battlefield 07 next year.
Honestly the developers are good though and it's a good move for EA assuming they are trying to become more rounded than just movie licenses and sports games.
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And there was me thinking it was Dillon's Integrated C Environment they'd bought.
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Great, now we can finally be accurate... (Score:3, Funny)
Not really worried. (Score:2)
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I am altering the deal. (Score:3, Funny)
pinball dreams (Score:1, Interesting)
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Nods to the 2 people who actually know what I'm going on about.
R.I.P. Rallisport Challenge (Score:2)
If RC3 (developed by DICE) was to come out, I would buy a next-gen console.
Woohoo! (Score:1)
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(as taken from TweakGuide)
Disabling the Intro Movies
The introductory movies to BF2, although fun to watch the first couple of times, fast become quite annoying, adding to the startup times for the game, as well as the memory usage (the main movie is 135MB in size). To disable them permanently, I don't recommend deleting the
London, Ontario studio closed (Score:1)