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EA Games to adquire Blizzard

HensenLirosHensenLiros Member Posts: 461
in World of Warcraft

EA Games continues to adquire new MMO companies, just like it did with Origin (Ultima Online) and Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot), and now Blizzard (company which created the famous Warcraft games, including the sucessful World of Warcraft).

 

The deal involved around 2 billion dollars, which EA Games representand Mathew Neill said that was a big but wise investment by EA Games, and it is expected to produce a large outcome due to World of Warcraft's 8 million subscriptions.

 

EA Games also announced that they'll be in charge of the new Blizzard MMORPG, and that the development team won't replaced, but will suffer from some single member replacements, as expected.

The Battle.net servers will be offline from 10th to 12th April because of some location changes and server replacements. 

 

More info here:  http://www.blizzard.com/news/eaadbliz

 

And lastly, I must say that anything written in this post is pure bs (1st april). Hope you had a laugh.

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  • tylerwicktylerwick Member Posts: 446
    Yea haha, clicked link and all.   Got me to an extent. but the subject all in all put a big BS in my brain. lol
  • RehmesRehmes Member Posts: 600
    Originally posted by tylerwick

    Yea haha, clicked link and all.   Got me to an extent. but the subject all in all put a big BS in my brain. lol
    Same, but its was good. lol
  • VolkmarVolkmar Member UncommonPosts: 2,501

    Without the link I would have thought it was your April's Fool (no way Vivendi is gonna sell Blizzard right now).

    WITH the link I thought it was another Blizzard's april fool (would be the fourth).... so i got caught.. sort of :D

    "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"



  • MidavegMidaveg Member Posts: 296
    I love April Fool's Day!

    All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.

  • JWPikeJWPike Member Posts: 71
    Who knos maybe they can fix WoW
  • Devildog1Devildog1 Member Posts: 494
    Rofl Good one!
  • JWPikeJWPike Member Posts: 71

    Wow would be good if they could cut down on the rep grind, making it impossible to get good gear without surrending your life to raiding/PVP, the immaturity thing I could work with by just ignoring  jerks. The game is too dependant on groups for a casual gamer like me.

  • GhakanGhakan Member Posts: 71
    Would have been much more believeable if it would have been about 8 billion instead of 2, but fun all the same ;)

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