WTF?! Soon all developers will be owned by EA or Activision.
>:(

ViciousViper

@Archaotic: You, sir, win this post. We can all go home now.

Ferrik

no, oh come on, no, no please no no no no, not now no that's not true, no... I don't believe it no, not really at all, just no.

infi

@Sam Smith: They are actually working on a doom and a quake. Check 1up it was there yesterday.

Gunloc

@Archaotic: That was an inspired post.

AsauPrime

I don't hold anything against companies for thier size, the main reason I don't like EA is that I find that a lot of thier games have been pushed out the door before being fully ready, in addition I think they push thier programmers to hard.

TheGreySpectre

This is just more of the same from EA, run out of stuff in house they just go out and buy out or as they are calling it today "partnership" with good developers. I think for the most part their E3 was lackluster because so much of it is stuff everyone already knows about.

Really the only thing that I am worried about this partnership is EA's bad reputation for support for the games they published. It is bad enough to release games with a lot of bugs but time after time I have seen EA games with patches taking forever or just don't come out, and rampant problems with really nothing being done about it. In BF2 stats were down for months before they did anything, and I think there is a petition for EA to patch TF2 for the PS3(EA published the Orange Box for the PS3).

Especially since what happened to Flagship a few days ago, which EA was their publisher and pretty much ditched HGL after it was released. Even though HGL was not a great game and most of the blame for that is with flagship. I am surprised that days after that a lot of people seem to think EA won't do the same thing to someone else.

NullsRevenge

Boring... Wake me up when doom 4 is a ps3 exclusive and then gets announced as having a simultaneous world wide release with the 360.

snakepliskin

@Corrin: Or Eactiblizzionenix, even better!

Spiffyness

I am starting to like EA sadly. Activision has taken my place for the 'evil empire'.

Fireblast

... idea?

Hoogie

Let's hope that the Rage Engine doesn't have the same aesthetic familiarities of the Unreal Engine 3 or Rock Band and Madden are going to start looking a whole lot alike...

stranger

@Corrin:

That would create a giant black hole and rip apart the very foundations of our universe.

Diesel_Power

Damn this means RAGE won't be on Steam :(

DanoruX

@NukaCola: Really? Just because EA publishing it? ...Wow.

CHU BOI

@Candlejack: It is quite apparent that I need to do some homework on game-business...

Or not.

cZEAL

EA and Activision should just merge and become the most evil entity of all... "Eactiblizzion"

Corrin

Looks like I won't be buying RAGE then.

NukaCola

Um, I think people are reading this wrong. id hasn't been swallowed in the slightest. All that's changed is that EA will publish their games from now on, until the contract runs out.

Candlejack

@Heliophage: Exactly

Luke Plunkett

Seems to suggest it's a partnership, not a merger or buyout. It's not a matter of being "EAten" as much as it is... well, having a new publishing partner.

Heliophage

Glad to see a new game from id rather than another Doom or Quake. Not that there is anything wrong with those franchises, but its always good to see some original stuff.

Sam Smith

another crazy e3 news...

neo177117

@ZetaCrossfire:

I would not be too surprised!

It has been rumored for a while now.

EnigmaNemesis

And now, it's time for another edition of "Good idEA, Bad idEA."

Archaotic

Even after the Activision Blizzard merger?

cZEAL

Meh, if anything; EA has their distribution system down pat.

PsycheE

EA has enough people to make there own console now. i mean DAMN

ZetaCrossfire

Someone got EAten!

slomo788

@Archaotic: Oh my god, that's genius.

Additionally, this is good news for me, as my multitude of buddies working at EA will be able to get me the game on PC for $10.

Gosh, I sure love that EA Experience (That's the name of the on-campus store).

Atheist Jew

Damn EA gotta give props, they now publish games from Valve AND id Software? I might find myself buying nothing but EA games soon from the look of things.

Absent Blue

haha...guess id finally got tired of taking second seat behind IW, and now with Blizz joining the stable they didn't want to settle for the bronze!

Meohfumado

So are they tired of good publishing or do they just want in on that limited-activation DRM that all the kids just love?

Arklop

"I might find myself buying nothing but EA games soon from the look of things."

That's certainly their intention...

LongDarkBlues

id Leave Activision. id make game. id hate puny humans.

ajm1240

It didn't say EA aquired id, it only says EA is now publishing id games. You know, like how EA publishes the console versions of Valve's games.

RavenGT

Is it just me, or does Rage just look visually uninteresting? Nothing about this game seems appealing, but then again id hasn't made me excited since Quake 3 Arena.....

Sammo21

I hope this doesn't affect id's relationship with Raven. They make a dream team, with Raven making excellent use of id's engines by making the great even better.

Zunnoab

EA also publish the boxed version of Valves PC titles, by the way.

I really don't see what people are getting so shitty about. id decided they wanted a different publisher, big whoop.

RaptorShadow

I guess EA needed to do something to tilt the scale of their games more to the good side... feels really strange though having played most of id's games and seeing the Activision logo in there.

Mezodon

@NukaCola: Looks like no one cares about your buying decisions

baccardi84

Destined to fail.

Oban

4: Almost forgot. Sony and Microsoft continue to lose money on their consoles.

Xtreme_Hindu_Cow

@ZetaCrossfire: They should definately make their own console and i haver reason to believe they might.
1: EA and TAKE-TWO are going to be partnered together. locking up all significant sports franchises and GTA.

2: Bioware, ID software, 2k games are all going apart of EA or are going to be.

3: with enough mergers they will eclipse the worth of Blizzard Activision.

Xtreme_Hindu_Cow

I give iD 3 years before EA rapes their company.

Vanguarde

I guess id was pissed off at Activision for practically not marketing Quake Wars PC at all.

NotTheGuy

oh my god.. this is the big shock of e3 2008 for me.. why id.. why??

BADASSgeek

No diffrent to Valve using EA to publish games for them and to do ports to consoles which seems to have gone well...who am i kidding anyone see the shameful port of the Orangebox for the PS3? The separation of the pc version of the orange box to create more money.

enigma776

"id Leave Activision For EA"

I don't think anybody asked what you'd do.

Slothboy

with their decisions lately, EA is looking golden compared to Activision

Mal-Content

@DanoruX: Thank fck, i`ll probably be buying it then!

UFO

Finally a once good, now terrible games developer joins together with a once good, now terrible games publisher!
Expect more Doom 3 quality games!

mizeriq