What if EA buy GGG

I'd be out.

I haven't bought a single EA title since DA2, which was when they abandoned Steam and expected me to run yet another DRM client. I wasn't willing to do that. (I'm okay with Steam, less okay but still tolerant of Blizzard's Launcher, but not willing to have more stuff running in order to play games I paid for.)

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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nait2k4 wrote:

Awwww, not going to happen? :(

I was kind of looking forward to a Dungeon Keeper Mobile style version of Path of Exile.

If GGG were really clever they'd make a total CCS/match-3 ripoff using skill gems. That'd fucking rule.

Bugger that, sell the license for a CCG to someone, with some profit sharing provisions.

Poe will now come with a small price of $100, each expansion or new content will be in many forms of DLC and they will only cost $60 per download

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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diablofdb wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Fictive scenarios are fun to entertain if there's even a slight chance of them happening. You know, like aliens invading and turning us all into food, or vampires actually being sparkly-skinned immortals who only eat vegetables like Kristen Stewart.

These could all conceivably happen.

EA Buying GGG could not.

So this is pointless.

EA have bought A LOT of game studios, from different size and different type of games. It's not entirely impossible.

No offence, but you don't know Chris that well if you really think it's not entirely impossible. He'd scuttle PoE utterly before letting it fall into the wrong hands. Even the Garena deals were made after a LOT of deliberation. Chris might have a pricetag, but it's definitely higher than EA would ever offer.

Charan, do you live or work next to GGG office and know chris on a serious level? I've been on the forums more and you seem to know a lot of info.

Well I hope you are right Charan because I've seen EA buying so many franchises I loved and ruining them x.x

Not going to ever happen. PoE is such a code mess in many areas from trading to balance to lockstep stuttering to endgame... err... lack of endgame that no other behemoth game company would want this title in their game stable. Sorry GGG but it's true.

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Arrowneous wrote:

Not going to ever happen. PoE is such a code mess in many areas from trading to balance to lockstep stuttering to endgame... err... lack of endgame that no other behemoth game company would want this title in their game stable. Sorry GGG but it's true.

EA aren't exactly looking for quality, just revenue. We don't know PoE's revenue and how, comparatively, successful it is. Plenty of EA published games are sub-par. (PoE has issues, but it is at least maintained and developed, and it's progressing.)

I don't feel PoE is a game with mass appeal, though. Just too niche. So it's not really EA's typical offering anyway.

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Arrowneous wrote:

Not going to ever happen. PoE is such a code mess in many areas from trading to balance to lockstep stuttering to endgame... err... lack of endgame that no other behemoth game company would want this title in their game stable. Sorry GGG but it's true.

You forget to say, "sorry not sorry, just saying" and then give a sassy finger waggle in the manner befitting such constructive and balanced critique.

None of us would play anymore because, like Battlefront and Titanfall, POE would be dead in less than a month.

DAE hate EA? Is this still a thing in 2016?

Big company would probably make poE more casual game. So: better tutorial, easier endgame, etc. A lot of changes that people ask for.