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Anonymous !!Pe8/IxcXVF4 Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:29:00 No.136255390 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>136255547 >>136256753 >>136258613 >>136261618 >>136266668 >>136266980

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/ea-laying-off-up-to-1000-report-6371851

"Electronic Arts is planning to lay off between 500 and 1,000 employees, as much as 11 percent of the company, with cuts coming as soon as this week."

" Andersen pointed to a variety of contributing factors for the cuts, noting that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic did not meet internal sales estimates, and is facing declining subscription numbers."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOE_b4aYD0

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHA....

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:31:00 No.136255547 Report

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>>136255390

END OF RINE...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:31:00 No.136255552 Report

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my french toast sides

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:31:00 No.136255593 Report

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>>136255547

They had to extend that graph to 80%, used to be 60% max...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:33:00 No.136255692 Report

Quoted By: >>136255845 >>136255894 >>136255981 >>136255998 >>136256028 >>136256069 >>136256316 >>136257463 >>136258180 >>136259543 >>136261154

>laughing at average joes losing their jobs just so the higher ups responsible for the mess can keep theirs

Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:33:00 No.136255718 Report

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YOUR JUST A HATER! SWTOR HAS 1.7 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS AND GROWING! \V\ IS WRONG AGAIN! PANDAS ARE THAT WAY ---->

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:34:00 No.136255826 Report

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Shareprice seems to have hit a 20 year low. Looking good EA, looking good...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:34:00 No.136255845 Report

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>>136255692
we're not the ones that have to live with firing 1000 people

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:35:00 No.136255887 Report

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>>136255547
There was a large fall in the stock market around that point. Everyones share prices look like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:35:00 No.136255890 Report

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anyone out there that just pirates all their games and really dont give a shit about what the publishers or devs are up to.

too much drama .exe

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:35:00 No.136255894 Report

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>>136255692
>complaining about /v/ instead of the higher ups and EA in general

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:35:00 No.136255981 Report

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>>136255692

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:36:00 No.136255989 Report

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>>136255718

I pity the 1000, they are punished for their superiors failings. However this is about something bigger, EA crumbling is a healthy sign for the industry. The power of the consumer should always be king.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:36:00 No.136255998 Report

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>>136255692

Don't worry, those average joes will find work. Working for EA has its benefits, if only to super pad ones resume.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:36:00 No.136256028 Report

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>>136255692
>not killing the legions of enemy soldiers between you and their evil leader because "my beef's not with those guys".
hurr
DURRR

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:36:00 No.136256069 Report

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>>136255692

Indeed, my feels go out to them and their families.

Best of luck they can find another job and be able to live a decent life in this shithole

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256097 Report

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>>136255887
>>136255887

Not many companies just hit a 20 year low....today...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256120 Report

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>>136255998
Yes becomes there are massive numbers of jobs out there for people with such a niche speciality!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256154 Report

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i'm happy that EA is going to the shitter, but it sucks that so many people are going to be losing their jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256162 Report

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Fuck yeah

Wax

Wax Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256165 Report

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>>136256028
>Games where your character doesn't kill the bad guy leader because killing "would make me just as bad"
>Thousands of nameless mooks have been slaughtered in my name

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:37:00 No.136256167 Report

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>>136256097
Where is your source on that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:38:00 No.136256189 Report

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>People working for EA lose jobs

I know this is bad, but hasn't every EA employee basically confirmed that working for them is terrible?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:38:00 No.136256219 Report

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>>136256120
Niche specialty? Programmers and graphical designers are "niche" now? Educate yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:38:00 No.136256221 Report

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A reminder to the marketers:

Screencaps your daily activities here in /v/. Once that you eventually got fired, you got enough materials to give a brutal payback.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:39:00 No.136256316 Report

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>>136255692

You do know that they are treated like cattle at EA, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:39:00 No.136256332 Report

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>>136256120

>implying programmers aren't in high demand, and the other positions will have enough EA cred to make them serious contenders in the job market

Don't get me wrong, it's not pleasant that there's going to be layoffs, but what needs to be done needs to be done.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:39:00 No.136256346 Report

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LOL all those people that won't be able to pay for their groceries next month

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:39:00 No.136256348 Report

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>>136256120
being creative and technically proficient (which you know is how the newspeak retards in the HR department are going to read it) is hardly a "niche specialty".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:40:00 No.136256379 Report

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>>136256189
a shit job is better than no job in some parts of the world.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:40:00 No.136256389 Report

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>>136256167
>>136256167

15.47 and falling

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:40:00 No.136256397 Report

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>>136256189
Pretty much, look up ea_spouse.

In fact, I think we should kick them while they're down and remind everyone about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:40:00 No.136256438 Report

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cutting 1000 jobs? guys, Sony just had to cut 10k jobs due their 6 billion loss.

imagine 10k people getting unemployed? shit is just surreal

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:41:00 No.136256513 Report

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> mfw EA lost 4.45% of it's worth today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gqT6En2O78

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:41:00 No.136256519 Report

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>>136256389
>>136256389

13 year low, not 20 year low...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:42:00 No.136256553 Report

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>>136256438
Sony is a much bigger fish.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:42:00 No.136256589 Report

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>>136256389
>>136256389

12-13 year low

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:42:00 No.136256591 Report

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I would like to think there is a possible future in which Dice and Criterion merge together and make the most radical games we have ever seen but possibly they'll go indie if Ea closes and move up to Tablet Pc territory.

Whatever happened to pandemic?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:43:00 No.136256683 Report

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>>136256316

There's actually a relatively high turnover rate at EA (it's very low compared to other job markets, but high compared to other game studios).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:44:00 No.136256753 Report

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>>136255390
Sony also makes tv's and other electronics. EA only makes vidya.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:44:00 No.136256762 Report

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http://www.google.com/finance?cid=168725

- 4.70% and counting

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:44:00 No.136256791 Report

Quoted By: >>136257056 >>136257152 >>136257564

Anyone laughing at this is a retarded kid. All the people being fired will be the low level entry positions that had no authority to make decisions whatsoever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:44:00 No.136256809 Report

Quoted By: >>136257030

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/technology/video_games/132001/homotech:_gay-friendly_gaming_companies_re
sist_the_right_

You're all just homophobes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:46:00 No.136256946 Report

Quoted By: >>136257382 >>136257421

and sony's losing money on it's other products, not vidya. it's tv's and other big electronics that are dragging them down. music to a lesser degree, since they still get a cut of online sales. their movie division can be all over the place. they have a good summer, they make shitloads, they have a few big budget flops, they're hundreds of millions in the hole..

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:46:00 No.136257029 Report

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>>136256519

EA stock just dipped another .35%. Holy fuck it's dropping like a rock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:46:00 No.136257030 Report

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>>136256809
>Your game sucks
>You must hate gays.
Makes sense

David Cameron !!Pe8/IxcXVF4

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David Cameron !!Pe8/IxcXVF4 Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:46:00 No.136257052 Report

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How long until EA is dead and the cancer is removed from gaming forever?

This is for you Westwood! R.I.P

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:47:00 No.136257056 Report

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>>136256791
fucking casual. WE ARE AT WAR HERE. soldiers die, sad but true.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:47:00 No.136257138 Report

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>>136256762
>>136256762

-4.82%, 15.40 and falling...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:47:00 No.136257152 Report

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>>136256791

I don't feel good about that at all, but I am glad EA will die. I hope those that are fired will find a better job where they are treated like people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:48:00 No.136257176 Report

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They removed the news about the layoffs. Are they allowed to do this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:48:00 No.136257259 Report

Quoted By: >>136257564

HAHAHA They can't pay their rent

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:48:00 No.136257263 Report

Quoted By: >>136257470 >>136261514

and now, another 1000 join the EA hate train.

ALL ABOARD

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:49:00 No.136257291 Report

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GET THE FUCK OUT WHILE YOU CAN EA SHAREHOLDERS, THAR BE BERGS ON THE HORIZON....

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:49:00 No.136257323 Report

Quoted By: >>136257391 >>136257497 >>136257621 >>136257676

>>136257029

>its dropping like a rock

Actually, it's been showing the exact same pattern of rising/dropping throughout the day for the past few weeks.

You watch it for an hour, see it drop 0.15, and think OMG EA DYING YEAAAH but seriously kidz, look at the long term trends. It hasn't dropped much lately.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:49:00 No.136257367 Report

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Can't wait for Riccitiello trying to bullshit the shareholders in May.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257382 Report

Quoted By: >>136257693

>>136256946
>and sony's losing money on it's other products, not vidya.

They lost tons of money with PS3 and now with poor Vita sales, not to mention the BD vs HD-DVD war, which they had to shrink their profit margin in order to make their product more interesting for people.

They've been stepping on eggs for years now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257389 Report

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Imagine all the juicy fruity secrets those employees will share with us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257391 Report

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>>136257323

In the last 6 months it's dropped 33%.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257417 Report

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Damage Control General?
Damage Control General.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257421 Report

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>>136256946
lol faggots

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257457 Report

Quoted By: >>136257551 >>136257615 >>136257793 >>136257816 >>136257831

Why is /v/ glad people are losing their jobs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:50:00 No.136257463 Report

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>>136255692
>losing a job as bad as working for an EA owned dev

You do know how shitty they treated their workers and that many of their workers got replaced with cheap college kids who would work for slave wages 14 hours a day.

We liberated 1000 people

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257470 Report

Quoted By: >>136258153

>>136257263
CHOO! CHOO!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257497 Report

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>>136257323
are you retarded?

the long term trend is fucking terrible.
the nasdaq has actually recovered from the recession and EA is one of the shit companies actually doing much WORSE then pre-2008.

stfu

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257503 Report

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WIth any luck one of those thousand laid off will be /v/'s mod.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257551 Report

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>>136257457
This is 4chan faggot. Morals have no place here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257558 Report

Quoted By: >>136257913

>We are falling!
>Tell them stuff about crysis 3
>Still falling!
>erm, tell them the layoff is fake
>still falling
>Tell them that we defend gay rights again
>Stable now
>Tell them more stuff about crysis 3
>Going up!
>Tell them about the new app for BF3
>Nothing happens
>That should do it then
>Its falling again!

Lets see what they will make up this time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:51:00 No.136257564 Report

Quoted By: >>136257672

>>136257259
>>136256791

You really think being laid off from EA suddenly means they're never going to find another job ever again.

You are aware that like 95% of the people who work at EA have openly admitted that they submit their resumes to other companies left and right while they're still working there, right? And other companies aren't dumb, they know the utter shit EA puts their employees get put through.

Everything will turn out fine, stop being such sissies.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:52:00 No.136257576 Report

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What I really hope for is some of the laid off employees sharing some dirty secrets. And it's EA we're talking about, they've got a whole lot of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:52:00 No.136257615 Report

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>>136257457
We're laughing at how shitty of a company EA has become. John Riccitiello can't run a company to save his fucking life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:52:00 No.136257621 Report

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>>136257323

It has actually dropped like 4.75% today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:52:00 No.136257626 Report

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>>136257391

And from 2008 till now it's hardly done a damn thing. It peaked at the end of 2011, now it's falling back down to where it's always been.

It peaked higher than normal for a while. It isn't dropping lower than normal now.

Wax

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Wax Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:52:00 No.136257663 Report

Quoted By: >>136257723

Remember who you lost /v/. Remember why EA must fall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257672 Report

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>>136257564

>You are aware that like 95% of the people who work at EA have openly admitted that they submit their resumes to other companies left and right while they're still working there

Where did you get that statistic?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257676 Report

Quoted By: >>136258016

>>136257323
>>136257323

All shareprices oscillate as they decline, EA's is no different. It has however shown a steady decline for months now overall. The current price is a new low for recent times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257693 Report

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>>136257382
everyone loses money on hardware. it's factored in from the start. granted sony's been doing an all star job of it lately. but it's not their games division that's eating into their profits.

David Cameron !!Pe8/IxcXVF4

David Cameron !!Pe8/IxcXVF4 Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257723 Report

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>>136257663
R.I.P Westwood!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257730 Report

Quoted By: >>136257772

Moralfags everywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:53:00 No.136257746 Report

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>>136257626
>set back 4 years
>stock prices dropping

Sounds like they're regressing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:54:00 No.136257772 Report

Quoted By: >>136258045

>>136257730

So edgy!

>>>/b/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:54:00 No.136257793 Report

Quoted By: >>136257909

>>136257457
because its a sign that the company is dying. Theyre not laughing at those people losing their jobs, theyre laughing at how EA is dying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:54:00 No.136257816 Report

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>>136257457

Believe it or not, people losing their jobs is a good thing as it frees up the work force to move into newer and more relevant areas of trade. Carriage makers losing their jobs in the 20th century freed up workers to move into car manufacturing, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:54:00 No.136257831 Report

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>>136257457
/v/ thinks that all of those people are responsible for the shitty management that the higher-ups at EA are accountable for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:54:00 No.136257840 Report

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Didn't these fags pretty much just say "fuck you" to gamers criticisms and claim that they were making millions of profits?

Haha fucking losers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:55:00 No.136257909 Report

Quoted By: >>136257969 >>136258050 >>136258229 >>136258251

>>136257793

But...EA is still around and making a decent profit. The only thing that's different is that 1000 people lost their jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:55:00 No.136257913 Report

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>>136257558

It's the greed, they can't get enough of it. The saddest part of all is that all this could have been avoided if they had just been reasonable human beings. But even in the throes of death, they'll still try to weasel as much money as they possibly can. They'll still release day 1 DLC and lie about their practices until the company officially shuts down.

I would feel pity, but I know they don't deserve it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:56:00 No.136257969 Report

Quoted By: >>136258235 >>136258253

>>136257909
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/01/ea-sees-205-million-net-loss-in-q3-rise-in-social-games-users/

Yeah, riiight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:56:00 No.136258016 Report

Quoted By: >>136258285 >>136258456 >>136258629 >>136260853

>>136257497
Oh really? Please, cite your sources of video game companies that have had their stock climb above what it was in 2008.
>>136257676
Actually, from 2009-present, the stock has bounced around the same level, and 15.45 or whatever it is right now isn't even close to how low it's gone in the past before going back up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:57:00 No.136258045 Report

Quoted By: >>136261693

>>136257772
>I am a moralfag, we should never do anything because I am to sentimental about people loosing their jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:57:00 No.136258050 Report

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>>136257909

EA aren't making a profit bro. They've lost about $2billion in revenue in the last few years and don't really have that much money left.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258153 Report

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>>136257470
THE EA HATE TRAIN HAS NO BRAKES!

THE TRACKS ARE ENDLESS, THE COAL IS LIMITLESS, AND THE STOKER IS TIRELESS

CHOO CHOO MOTHER FUCKER!

I miss Westwood and Maxis :'(

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258180 Report

Quoted By: >>136258296

>>136255692
I cannot imagine that anyone who works for EA is doing it for nothing else than the money, and is probably always aware about the chance of getting laid off.

Mourning those regular joes is like mourning prison guards who get injured on the job.

Unless those EA employees took the job to get by, out of desperation, but that only shows that fractional reserve banking and capitalism is bad, as usual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258229 Report

Quoted By: >>136258721

>>136257909

Business 101: you don't fire a thousand people unless you're seriously getting worried about your company's financial situation. EA knows it needs to fulfill a certain quota, and right now they're nowhere near getting to it. If this keeps up, the numbers of layoffs will multiply, leaving only a small "core" group. EA will devolve into what it once was, just a group of guys making video games. But this time, it won't be by choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258232 Report

Quoted By: >>136258510

EA should just fire the entire Bioware division.

I just got done playing Dead Space 2 and SSX (2012), neither are anywhere near great, but both are damn solid games that deserve a fuck ton more praise than ME 2/3, DA 2, or ToR got. When you have to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars to damage control every game a developer makes it's not a good sign.

Of course that won't happen, because the bloated egos over at Bioware have become one of gaming's biggest and "most trustworthy" names for the current gen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258235 Report

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>>136257969

What? They have a net income of 221 million dollars in 2011

http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=594196

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258237 Report

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RIP THE FLESH SALT THE WOUND!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258246 Report

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>and is facing declining subscription numbers.

I smirked

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258251 Report

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>>136257909
>making a decent profit

EA hasn't made a profit since 2007, Goldman Sachs has been pumping cash into them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:58:00 No.136258253 Report

Quoted By: >>136258308 >>136258610

>>136257969
>a net revenue of $1.05 billion
>a net loss of $205 million

They made a huge profit dude, did you even read the whole post?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:59:00 No.136258285 Report

Quoted By: >>136258341

>>136258016
>>136258016

Not the guy you are responding to, but...

Activision Blizzard, shareprice currently higher than what it was in 2007/2006 etc...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:59:00 No.136258296 Report

Quoted By: >>136259286

>>136258180

>Using the BAWWW CAPITALISM IS BAD ;____; argument

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:59:00 No.136258308 Report

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>>136258253
Not sure if retarded or just pretending

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:59:00 No.136258316 Report

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IF EA was stationed in china you wouldnt give a shit about jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 20:59:00 No.136258341 Report

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>>136258285

Probably because Activision Blizzard didn't exist in 2007/6

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:01:00 No.136258456 Report

Quoted By: >>136258652

>>136258016
>>136258016

Taketwo, shareprice has more than doubled since 2008.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:01:00 No.136258490 Report

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>Startup Grind's report goes on to speculate the layoffs are a result of a disappointing 2011 in which a few hit games (like Battlefield 3) had their sales overshadowed by an overspend on marketing, expensive acquisitions and disappointing subscriber numbers for big-budget MMO Star Wars: Old Republic.

LOL, when you use all your development money to have bands like Linkin Park and J-Zay to promote your games, what do you expect is going to happen? EA spends the majority of their resources on marketing, that's all they know how to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:01:00 No.136258506 Report

Quoted By:

Oh wow it keeps getting worse as the days pass.

Shame the innocent people are being fired and not the fucking shitty faggots who screwed this company up.
Well, that is unless the shareholders step in and tell the board to fuck off. (pls, yes pls, do it, now, pls, go pls go)

I'll cry happy tears to see their board told to fuck off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:01:00 No.136258510 Report

Quoted By: >>136258571 >>136258673

>>136258232

Actually, Bioware is very likely on the chopping block for companies that EA will get rid of, since Bioware's been getting a lot of negative press lately. All it takes is another Mass Effect 3 fiasco and they'll be deemed too much of a financial risk to keep around.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:01:00 No.136258513 Report

Quoted By:

Let's remember those we lost in this war. R.I.P.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:02:00 No.136258571 Report

Quoted By: >>136258673

>>136258510

>All it takes is another Mass Effect 3 fiasco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age_III

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:02:00 No.136258610 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258253

Revenue =! Profit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:02:00 No.136258613 Report

Quoted By: >>136258826

>>136255390
If there dropping developers this may lead to a load of new start up studios been made, although I think it's more likely they will end up working for Google or Microsoft.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:03:00 No.136258629 Report

Quoted By: >>136258765

>>136258016
>>136258016
>>136258016
>>136258016

Konami, shareprice has climbed since 2008 to almost the same as its peak in 2007.

You want any more?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:03:00 No.136258652 Report

Quoted By: >>136258942

>>136258456

>>136258456

Ummm, you mean that the price is about HALF of what it was in 2008, right?

Jesus christ, this fucking place lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:03:00 No.136258673 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258510
>>136258571
With a bit of luck it's going to be TORtanic. It's not Edmonton team, though, but still.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:03:00 No.136258721 Report

Quoted By: >>136258934 >>136259053 >>136259350

>>136258229

>Business 101: you don't fire a thousand people unless you're seriously getting worried about your company's financial situation

The fuck are you talking about? Large companies will restructure, even in good times with huge profits. If management determines the company is not getting the standard return from a line of business, they might restructure sections and hire/fire as they need.

> EA knows it needs to fulfill a certain quota, and right now they're nowhere near getting to it

What quota? They're still a profitable company.

>EA will devolve into what it once was, just a group of guys making video games

Again, do you have any idea what you're talking about? why do companies like id, who have strives to stay Independence for years, suddenly want to bunk up with Zenimax? Because development costs have reached a point where it's NECESSARY to have large pools of capital to produce just one game. Sorry to say, large companies like Activision and EA are the product of the level of technology required in modern games. Large companies will always be around as long as gamers want top notch graphics and production values.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:03:00 No.136258724 Report

Quoted By: >>136259562

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=67016

>Electronic Arts Canada offices may see layoffs this week

GUESS WHICH FUCKING TERRIBLE RPG DEVELOPER IS BASED IN CANADA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:04:00 No.136258765 Report

Quoted By: >>136259086

>>136258629
>>136258629
>>136258629
>>136258629

The guy I was quoting stated that EA was one of the shit companies who's stock is less than it was in 2008.

Nearly every single fucking company is less than it was in 2008. You've listed ONE.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:04:00 No.136258793 Report

Quoted By: >>136259047

>your faces when they are going to dismantle Bioware and fire all of their Bioware staff

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:05:00 No.136258826 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258613
Many former big studio devs are going independent these days, actually. Robot is made of former Ensemble and Stoic is made of former Bioware Mythic, for example.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:05:00 No.136258871 Report

Quoted By: >>136258971

Just want to point out, again, that EA's stock hasn't changed very much recently, especially over the past 3 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:06:00 No.136258903 Report

Quoted By: >>136259003

4.88%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:06:00 No.136258934 Report

Quoted By: >>136259021

>>136258721
>profitable
Nope.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:06:00 No.136258942 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258652
>>136258652

Are you mentally handicapped or something, the point is that its shareprice is recovering and holding and has more than doubled since 2008. Unlike EA's which has flatlined and continued to decline.

Engage your brain in some sort of functional mode before you "open your mouth".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:06:00 No.136258971 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258871
It stopped following the market in January and has been going down relative to the NASDAQ

Look at the 2 year chart

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259003 Report

Quoted By: >>136259037

>>136258903

4.94%

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259017 Report

Quoted By:

> EA already lost 4.88% of it's value
> mfw until the end of this day they will lose over 5%

down with the evil empire

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259021 Report

Quoted By: >>136259115 >>136259172 >>136259304 >>136261142

>>136258934

ill say it again, they had net income of 221 million dollars

investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=594196

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259036 Report

Quoted By:

>>oh noes, all that poor poor people losing their jobs, i feel so bad im gonna crawl into fetal position and cry

stop being so hypocrite, you dont give two flying craps about them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259037 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259003
5.13%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259047 Report

Quoted By: >>136259327 >>136259907

>>136258793
Bioware isn't run by EA. EA just publishes their games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259053 Report

Quoted By: >>136259152

>>136258721
http://www.develop-online.net/news/38987/EA-losses-deepen-to-340m
Now fuck off, they haven't been profitable for three years or so.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259086 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258765
>>136258765

I've just listed 3, ActivisionBLizz, Taketwo and Konami. Pay attention for fucks sake.

Here is another one, Namco Bandai, you can look it up for yourself. Shareprice climbing since 2008 to very nearly 2007 levels.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:07:00 No.136259089 Report

Quoted By:

IT JUST WENT INTO FREEFALL

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259101 Report

Quoted By: >>136260117 >>136261975

RIP AND TEAR

WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL

BURN EA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259115 Report

Quoted By: >>136259262

>>136259021
But you're wrong

That's digital revenue

revenue =/= profit

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259129 Report

Quoted By:

What if EA delivers on another -8.8%?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259138 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255547
I dont understand, how are only 50% of servers light if theres only 5 standard servers? are they counting anything above 1.00 standard? because that would be hilarious

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259152 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259053

do you know what a loss is?

!.MEOWTH01Q

!.MEOWTH01Q Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:08:00 No.136259172 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259021
Income != revenue

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259195 Report

Quoted By:

>People losing jobs.

maybe a good new studio can emerge and or talent can be allocated elsewhere out of this.

for all we know, EA was holding back a potential development star. or someone who would play a key part at the next big thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259198 Report

Quoted By:

Minus five percent in one day, guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259209 Report

Quoted By: >>136259290

I always went with "Evil Abomination"

It's better to say around the kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259242 Report

Quoted By: >>136259387 >>136259401 >>136259432

ITT

Retarded people pretend they know a single fucking thing about the stock market and business in general

seriously lol this is funny to read through

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259246 Report

Quoted By:

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Kinda-Denies-Lay-Off-Rumors-41460.html

Damage control time

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259249 Report

Quoted By:

We have reached critical mass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:09:00 No.136259262 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259115

That's NOT revenue. That's NET INCOME, which is another word for profit . Net income is

Net sales (revenue)
– Cost of goods sold
= Gross profit
– SG&A expenses (combined costs of operating the company)
= EBITDA
– Depreciation & amortization
= EBIT
– Interest expense (cost of borrowing money)
= EBT
– Tax expense

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_income

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259276 Report

Quoted By:

10,000 Sony employees losing they jobs.

>Yes Sony, LOL hahahhaha you suck, you deserved it!

EA loses

1,000 EA employees loses their job

>OMG you're all horrible for laughing at this. They're people too.

You EA shills are pathetic. Also people lose their jobs all the time. In the past 3 years, many companies let go of more people than this, look at GM as an example. Stop playing the victim card just because your favorite shit company is going down the drain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259286 Report

Quoted By: >>136259354

>>136258296
>Not understanding how fractional reserve banking harms the world.

Get out, kike.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259290 Report

Quoted By: >>136259371

>>136259209

How about you tell kids the story of how Shepard fucked the blue alien again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259304 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259021
>>136259021

That's just their cash flow. They made a net loss of around $227 million.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259327 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259047
You stupid fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259350 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258721
firing 11% of your workers isnt just a resturcturing. also EA hasnt made profit since 2007

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259354 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259286

Reserve banking != Capitalism

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 No.136259371 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259290
>not fucking the men

homphobic piece of shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:11:00 No.136259387 Report

Quoted By: >>136259640

>>136259242

So explain it to us, o wise and intelligent one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:11:00 No.136259401 Report

Quoted By: >>136259640

>>136259242
>ITT: People that act like they know something about stock marketing by telling others that they dont know shit about stock marketing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:11:00 No.136259432 Report

Quoted By: >>136259640

>>136259242

12 year old detected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:11:00 No.136259439 Report

Quoted By:

Revenue does not mean profit
Income does not mean profit

If I make 200 thousand dollars I have a net revenue or income of 200 thousands dollars. But if I spent 220 thousand dollars I have a net loss of 20K.

My reporting earnings will be a net income/revenue of 200K and a net loss of 20K.

Shut the fuck up now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:11:00 No.136259449 Report

Quoted By: >>136259569

-5.25

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259507 Report

Quoted By:

So many butt fustrated EA employees in damage control ITT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259543 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255692
honestly, the working conditions were probably deplorable. I'm sure there is plenty of other developers that are needing more members now that EA is starting to lose its grip on the market creating a massive vacuum that needs to be filled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259562 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258724

they will fire the employees from Montreal and Vancouver long before touching the ones from Edmonton

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259569 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259449
5.50% genereal

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259578 Report

Quoted By: >>136259783

SPLABADOUSH

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259579 Report

Quoted By:

Jesus fucking christ, 15.30 a 5.44% loss today. 13 year low. ITS OVER...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259580 Report

Quoted By:

5.44%5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%
5.44%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259583 Report

Quoted By:

>-5.5

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:12:00 No.136259584 Report

Quoted By:

- 5.50%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:13:00 No.136259601 Report

Quoted By:

Damn, it's at 15.29. New low in 52 weeks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:13:00 No.136259612 Report

Quoted By:

Fuck you EA! I was one of the best social media promoter of TOR. Fuck you, I need to pay my bills, I have a life too! Worked for EA ever since TOR came out, to Virul that shit. And this is what I get????!!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:13:00 No.136259631 Report

Quoted By:

>M-M-MARKET F-FLUCTUATIONS G-G-GUYS

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:13:00 No.136259640 Report

Quoted By: >>136259816 >>136259881 >>136260135

>>136259387
>>136259401
>>136259432
LOL I H8 EA 2 GUISE LOL WE R LEGIN, BRING DOWN THE TROLL BRING DOWN THE CAVE TROLL LOL!

Wow, EA's stock has dropped 1-2 points in the past couple months. It also rose an entire point on Wednesday and another point on Thursday. Big fucking whoop.

Seriously, I'm all for the whole "we hate the evil companies" shit, it's fun and you feel good seeing the bad companies do poorly. But watching their stock and high fiving each other every time it drops is retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:13:00 No.136259656 Report

Quoted By:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_LT8-uuX4

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:14:00 No.136259716 Report

Quoted By: >>136259785 >>136259792 >>136260207

EA has hit a new 52 week low, which means it's hit a new decade low. The last time EA stock was this low was in like, 1999.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:14:00 No.136259745 Report

Quoted By: >>136259807 >>136259836

Edmontonfag here. Considering driving to Bioware entrance with boom box and sign reading "HAPPY LAYOFFS, FAGGOTS"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259756 Report

Quoted By: >>136259819

It's just like the Contractors, and Construction Workers who worked on the second Death Star....

They knew what they were getting into.
You shouldn't shed a single treat for them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259763 Report

Quoted By:

finally

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259783 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259578
>>136259578

MAN THE LIFEBOATS....EVERYONE OVERBOARD...EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259785 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259716

Actually it was lower in 2010 and you guys are just retarded.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259792 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259716
are you retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259807 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259745
Record it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259816 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259640
Watching people getting mad at others just because they are watching stocks is sad.
You should go to anger management classes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259819 Report

Quoted By: >>136260123

>>136259756
I've never shed a treat for anyone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259836 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259745

Take photos and I'll suck your e-dick 5ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259846 Report

Quoted By:

15.28!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:15:00 No.136259853 Report

Quoted By: >>136259904 >>136259924 >>136259959

Responding to an earlier report on website Startup Grind, which claimed between 500-1000 employees would be laid off soon, EA has said "There are no lay-offs as such, we always have projects growing and morphing".

http://kotaku.com/5902244/ea-says-there-are-no-lay+offs-as-such

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:16:00 No.136259881 Report

Quoted By: >>136260096

>>136259640
This is not just "every time it drops".
If a company's stock drops more than 5% in one single day it is serious shit, especially considering how the rest of the market is doing right now.
EA just keeps getting lower and lower.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:16:00 No.136259904 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259853

>Reading Kotaku

Come on, they're basically just an outlet for publishers at this point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:16:00 No.136259907 Report

Quoted By: >>136260039

>>136259047
are you stupid?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:16:00 No.136259924 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259853
>Linking to Kotaku
>Going to Kotaku
You should know they're full blown EA shill by now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:17:00 No.136259958 Report

Quoted By:

15.28
-0.90 (-5.56%)

That's some serious shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:17:00 No.136259959 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259853
Google already discredited that. Your move.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:17:00 No.136259967 Report

Quoted By: >>136260053 >>136260076

This just pisses me off further. So a bunch of higher ups make piss-poor decisions which in turn harm the company. What happens? A bunch of people down the ladder get shit-canned when they didn't have anything to do with it. And those assholes on the top floor who made the decisions or authorized them are still nice and cozy.

You're goddamn right I'm fucking mad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:17:00 No.136260016 Report

Quoted By: >>136260318 >>136260484

EA's FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

FREE FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLIN'

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:17:00 No.136260039 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259907
Shh, they think that when you buy a entire company, the company stays the same. Pretty much how blizzfaggots think blizzard is still the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260053 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259967

The people lower down on the ladder were arguable hired when they shouldn't have been hired, so in fact do have something to do with it just by being there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260076 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259967
This happens with every company though. Yes, it sucks for the guys at the bottom, but it's still a sign that EA is starting to feel some pain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260096 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259875
You know what, the constant media attention for the stuff they fuck up is good, that will hurt them in the long run.

Sitting in a fucking /v/ thread going YEAH! WHOO!! because it dropped 5% today is stupid.

>>136259881

>keeps getting lower and lower
>jumped an entire fucking point from the start of Wednesday to the end of Thursday LAST WEEK

Wow, look how correct you are!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260117 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259101
that made no sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260123 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259819

LOL didn't even realize the typo.
Sometimes I shed a treat for myself
Bon Bons

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260135 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259640

look, i understand that right now you're going through that edgy teen stage where you don't want to have any sense of community and you want to be the lone wolf and the smarter and more mature than the rest of us guys guy.

but just stop

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:18:00 No.136260151 Report

Quoted By: >>136260608 >>136270905

LET THE STOCKS HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE STOCKS HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE STOCKS HIT THE FLOOR
1% NOTHING WRONG WITH TOR
2% NOTHING WRONG WITH TOR
5% NOTHING WRONG WITH TOR
HOMMOOOOPHOOOOBBBEEESSS

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:19:00 No.136260207 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259716
and guess what?

in the last 10years is when we're been getting the heavy DRM/DLC/PREORDER EXCLUSIVES bullshit.

how's that working out for you EA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:19:00 No.136260215 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259875
>dat self aggrandisement
Nobody gives a shit about your or /v/'s opinions. It's just people had enough of it. Internet helped with the awaress but don't overestimate your puny self.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:20:00 No.136260297 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255887
I don't know if you quote wrong, but thats a TOR graph.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:20:00 No.136260318 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260016

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:20:00 No.136260326 Report

Quoted By: >>136260414 >>136260456

>mfw free-market capitalism

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:21:00 No.136260407 Report

Quoted By: >>136260573 >>136260761

WOW GUISE

FREE FALLING AMIRITE!
BRING DOWN THE CAVE TROLL
BRING DOWN THE CAVE TROLL LOL

EVIL EA IS DYING WOOHOO! YAHOO!!! I BET DEY GO BANKRUPP TOMORROW GUISE LOOK HOW FAST ITS FALLING!

5% IN ONE DAY HOLY FUCK THATS A WORLD RECORD FOR VIDEO GAME STOCK DROPPINGS!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:21:00 No.136260414 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260326

>mfw people think that people who are worthless to a company should remain employed there

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:21:00 No.136260456 Report

Quoted By: >>136260718

>>136260326
sometimes, it works. you have a shit company selling shit polish it will fail.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:22:00 No.136260484 Report

Quoted By: >>136260545

>>136260016
This nigga

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:22:00 No.136260545 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260484
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMbPB7JZE1k

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:23:00 No.136260573 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260407
how about -48% over 10years?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:23:00 No.136260608 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260151
I laughed way harder than I should have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:23:00 No.136260643 Report

Quoted By: >>136260785 >>136260824 >>136260852 >>136260884 >>136260916 >>136260921 >>136260982 >>136261003 >>136261128 >>136261278 >>136261607

EA is dying, eh faggots?

Well, let's look at one of the most successful vidya companies of the past few years, fucking Blizzard.

Look at their stock over the past few months. Follow it with your mouse.

WOW, UP AND DOWN THE EXACT SAME WAY AS EA!

THEY MUST BOTH BE DYING HOLY JEEZ GUISE NEW ERA OF GAMING DOWN WITH THE KING LOL WE DID IT WE REALLY DID IT!!!!!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:24:00 No.136260718 Report

Quoted By: >>136262123

>>136260456
Feel like taking a ride on a plane that 'sometimes' manages to stay in the air?
That's what I fucking thought.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:25:00 No.136260761 Report

Quoted By: >>136261060

>>136260407

How does it feel to wake up in the morning as King Faggot of the Faggot people?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:25:00 No.136260785 Report

Quoted By: >>136265072

>>136260643
We killed Blizzard too. The gaming industry is on the tip of our hands. Beaware, for /v/ reigns supreme.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:25:00 No.136260824 Report

Quoted By: >>136260924

>>136260643
>Implying EA is having ups to go with their downs

Performance of other stocks has a negligble effect on EA's stocks at this point. They're burning, and we're laughing. Deal with it, Andromeda.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:26:00 No.136260852 Report

Quoted By: >>136261415 >>136261469

>>136260643

>Blizzard
>Successful
>Lost 2 million WoW subscribers in the last year
>That's 2000000 x $15 x 12 months in yearly potential revenue lost
>$360 million dollars lost
>My face when people think age is why MMOs die
>My face when EVE Online

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:26:00 No.136260853 Report

Quoted By: >>136260957

>>136258016
EA is in a pattern of decline with NO good news coming out.
I'm sitting here watching the cancer die and loving every minute of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:26:00 No.136260884 Report

Quoted By: >>136260960

>>136260643

NO. PROFIT. FOR. FIVE. YEARS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:26:00 No.136260916 Report

Quoted By: >>136261027

>>136260643
cept activision is making money!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136260921 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260643
what are you talking about
ATVI is up 230% in 10years.
EA is -48% in 10years.

wow they are toally same RITEGUIZS?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136260924 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260824
Andromeda was one of the guys EA layed off, bro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136260957 Report

Quoted By: >>136261051

>>136260853

>no good news
>hurr durr what is Crysis 3?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136260960 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260884

You're shitting me. Really?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136260982 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260643

> WOW ACTIBLIZZ IS ONLY -1% TODAY WHILE EA's AT -5% BUT IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AMIRITE GUISE

Wow, kids these days.
Do you really expect a company to go bankrupt happens in a mere days time ? If you watch carefully, EA's been going down for the whole 2011 fiscal year, while almost every single other vidya company saw its capitalization increase.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136261003 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260643

Are you from EA or do you seriously believe they aren't losing money?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136261007 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136261012 Report

Quoted By:

I don't care if it cost the sacrifice of ME3, and bioware.

Fuck EA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136261027 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260916

Just so you know, MW3 has sold less copies than Black Ops did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:27:00 No.136261029 Report

Quoted By:

Amped 3 mocking EA as the villain for their game is still one of my favorite things ever.

>This game came out late 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gscNxu53vVQ

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:28:00 No.136261048 Report

Quoted By:

>first bits of info was DLC surprise surprise

yeah, nah you're a cunt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:28:00 No.136261051 Report

Quoted By: >>136261138

>>136260957

>good news

Crysis was bland. Crysis 2 was shit.

Now, go back to elementary school... how would you continue that pattern?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:28:00 No.136261057 Report

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:28:00 No.136261060 Report

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>>136260761
you forgot your image

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:29:00 No.136261123 Report

Quoted By: >>136261434

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/16/best-buy-slashes-the-price-of-mass-effect-3/

OH SHIT SON.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:29:00 No.136261128 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260643
>>136260643

You're an idiot, ActiBlizz shareprice has grown steadily since the dip in 2008, despite falling WOW subscribers, EA has flatlined and recently declined.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:29:00 No.136261138 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261051

Crysis 1 was good. That's what happens when you make a PC game for PC gamers. Funnily enough, Crysis 1 made just as much money as Crysis 2 did.

gakuen !!/EotwRZJ3lm

gakuen !!/EotwRZJ3lm Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:29:00 No.136261142 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259021

Considering the cost of TOR alone is estimated at 300 million at least, we can safely say without looking over the nitty gritty costs that they lost at least 100 million dollars.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:29:00 No.136261154 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255692
>implying the higher ups are going to keep theirs

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:30:00 No.136261242 Report

Quoted By: >>136261319 >>136261368

Fuck, EA should make me their CEO. I can't do a worse job than the chucklefucks running it right now.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:30:00 No.136261269 Report

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:30:00 No.136261278 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260643
EA damage control using the already exposed distract and derail tactic. Nice try faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:31:00 No.136261319 Report

Quoted By: >>136261402

>>136261242
>chucklefucks
Why does that expression always make me lol?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:31:00 No.136261368 Report

Quoted By: >>136261668

>>136261242
you can't ruin franchises as good as me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:31:00 No.136261373 Report

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>(-5.07%)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:32:00 No.136261402 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261319
It sounds "full" for some reason.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:32:00 No.136261415 Report

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>>136260852
>mfw you have no face

i like eve. goddamn pirates

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:32:00 No.136261416 Report

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>all these buttdevastated EAdrones

didn't you hear guys? you're being laid off you don't have to market on /v/ anymore

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:32:00 No.136261434 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261123
>ME3 price slashed
>SFxT price slashed
>EA slowly dying
The golden age is upon us gentlemen

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:32:00 No.136261469 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260852
>EVE
>Not a dead game

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:33:00 No.136261514 Report

Quoted By:

>>136257263
NO BRAKES ON THE HATE TRAIN

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:34:00 No.136261607 Report

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>>136260643

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:34:00 No.136261618 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255390

How about the fucking board of investors fucking fire John Riccitiello and the rest of the batch of fucking moronic clowns fucking gutting the shit out of the company too start

The problem isn't with the workers, its the fucking leadership that's fucking everything up ATM, laying off workers while the CEO and the ilk under him remain fat is bullshit, the board of directors should be calling for their heads, not calling for job cuts

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:34:00 No.136261668 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261368
The eyes of a man who has not felt a single feel his entire life. His soul is cold and weary, and seeks only for release from this broken shell.

We should help him, brothers, he'd do the same for us.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:34:00 No.136261671 Report

Quoted By: >>136262221

NEVER FORGET

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:35:00 No.136261693 Report

Quoted By:

>>136258045
>loosing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:35:00 No.136261721 Report

Quoted By: >>136261812 >>136261813 >>136261838 >>136261854 >>136261867 >>136261956 >>136261984 >>136261986 >>136262025 >>136262090 >>136262118 >>136264357

Hey, guys?

You do realise that this will mean even SHITTIER games and even more perspective franchises getting frozen, righ?

For example: I'd bet big money that this will mean that Mirrors Edge 2 (currently the only actually interesting IP EA holds) will go down the drain, fast.

I would not be very happy about this, you know. I know we all hate EA, but this is not sign of things getting better. You may be forgotting the internal structure of the company.

The shareholders are the one who actually hold the power. Shareholders. The last people on EARTH who care about quality of EA's games. If they lost money, their only reaction will be to pressure EA even more to make up for the red numbers.

EA may lose a portion of their recently aquired arrogance, but they sure as hell won't react by making better games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:36:00 No.136261812 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
>SHITTIER
impossible.
fuck off.
mirrors edge 2 would be horrible, just to spite us entitled homophobic pedophile neckbears.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:36:00 No.136261813 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
Then they die and stop fucking up smaller, good gaming studios.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:37:00 No.136261838 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
pretty sure they're at the point of no return

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:37:00 No.136261854 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
Accidents do happen. We are going to lose something, of course, but we will lose even more if EA continues their reign.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:37:00 No.136261867 Report

Quoted By: >>136261995

>>136261721
>implying anyone cares about Mirror's Edge 2
They would ruin it so bad.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:38:00 No.136261956 Report

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>>136261721

EA doesn't make games, though. They buy rights, and ruin them. If EA has the rights to a game, it's already dead. Please fucking go, you're probably getting laid off anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:38:00 No.136261975 Report

Quoted By:

>>136259101
Absolutely nothing in this post makes sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:38:00 No.136261984 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
>but they sure as hell won't react by making better games.

If they were smart that's exactly what they'd do. The reason they've lost consumer confidence is because of the shit they churn out every year.

They need to go back to the company they were and publish well polished games instead of forcing as many onto shelves in the least time possible.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:38:00 No.136261986 Report

Quoted By: >>136262127 >>136262256 >>136262730

>>136261721
>EA declares bankruptcy
>assets sold off
>various IPs sold to better companies
>many dead IPs that EA is just hold for no damn reason revived
>mfw mirror's edge 2 by valve

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:38:00 No.136261991 Report

Quoted By: >>136262119 >>136262161 >>136262607

Wow, I guess it really is official that TOR is dying.

I mean, I really thought that it was just haters exaggerating per usual, but damn, it really is true.

Why does this make me slightly happy?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:39:00 No.136261995 Report

Quoted By: >>136262625

>>136261867
>buying a dlc everytime you want to progress the story further
they'd fuck it in the ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:39:00 No.136262025 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
> If they lost money, their only reaction will be to pressure EA even more to make up for the red numbers.

Their pressure will be to "STOP DOING EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN DOING."

It will be upheaval, not overtime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:40:00 No.136262061 Report

Quoted By:

I don't even feel bad for the employees, they're better off without EA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:40:00 No.136262090 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
No offense, but I lost interest in Mirror's Edge 2 the moment they announced they wanted it to "appeal to a wider audience".

It's time to put all of these IPs to a rest. Maybe they can sell off their Ferrari and Porsche licenses too while they're at it, so we can finally see them in racing games that aren't shit.

The one thing I thought might be interesting was the new Sim City, until I saw even before the game was made, they already outlined all the DLC.

I don't give 2 shits if EA goes down or who they take with them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:40:00 No.136262118 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
>>136261721

It's not their games I have a problem with, it's their business practices.

Understand that I am not hoping for rehabilitation here, things have gone too far for that. I want EA to die a horrible death so that their developers can be set free once again.

There is no room for negotiation anymore, we tried that, EA responded by kicking their customers in the balls repeatedly with steel capped boots. No, the time has come to draw the line. There can be no mercy anymore.

EA has fatal cancer, welcome to the chemo...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:40:00 No.136262119 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261991
Because we were right and imagining the smug look wiped off the faces of Biodrones makes my cock diamond hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:40:00 No.136262123 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260718
No thats exactly what its like. You chose to get on the plane. You are entrusting your life to strangers. It just so happens that planes are safe because the people who make planes want them to be sold so they can have repeated customers (from airlines).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:41:00 No.136262127 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261986
>valve

The same people who playtest games with retards?

No thanks.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:41:00 No.136262161 Report

Quoted By: >>136262315

>>136261991
It was official since TOR's beta, dude. Where the fuck have you been? It wasn't haters, it was legitimate concerns that Bioware didn't address, and allowed to hit retail, and then STILL didn't fix two major content patches later.

No one was trolling about TORtanic. They claimed bugs were features, their endgame really is alts, and it really is a buggy, unplayable piece of shit held together entirely on pixie dust and the virginal cum and cheetoes paste mixed by the hands of biodrones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262221 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261671
Most of them work at 343 industries now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262239 Report

Quoted By:

What's funny is that the Biodrones on the SWTOR forums still won't admit that sub numbers are decreasing. Even with first-hand evidence that most server pops are dropping, and now these articles, they still maintain that it's some diabolical scheme cooked up by "haters."

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262256 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261986
God I hope this happens.

I want to see their IPs being bought off cheap and revived. And I want them to do well to spit on EA's grave.

I wan their suits and their cheap MBAs to be god damn humiliated. I want Riccitiello to be forced into early retirement, never ever to manage a business again, not even a god damn lemonade stand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262272 Report

Quoted By:

I actually don't give a shit about this.

And EA only killed crappy companies anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262280 Report

Quoted By: >>136262520 >>136262632 >>136262814

I just wanted to say, EA is shit and all but the people talking about how the stock is tanking and the change has only been <1% really need to stop. This happens for almost all companies (except very famous ones)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 No.136262289 Report

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the speed EA is sinking now is not comparable to the Titanic, but more like the Empress of Ireland

>"I was a fireman on both the ships. It was my luck to be on duty at the time of both accidents. The Titanic disaster was much the worst of the two. I mean it was the most awful. The waiting was the terrible thing. There was no waiting with the Empress of Ireland. You just saw what you had to do and did it. The Titanic went down straight, like a baby goes to sleep. The Empress rolled over like a hog in a ditch.

>William Clarke, Survivor of the Titanic and Empress of Ireland disasters

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:43:00 No.136262315 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262161
No fucking kidding, all you have to do is read the TOR forums and look at TORstatus.net to know that the game is dead. Even hardcore Biodrones are complaining about the dead servers.

If you think anyone is trolling, no amount of proof will make you see the truth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:45:00 No.136262504 Report

Quoted By:

>never really had beef with EA
>fucked up ME3 worse than DA2

I'm willing to accept the sacrifice some of my favorite video game series if it means the monster that is EA is finally put down.

Maybe this will open their eyes about the subject of more quality in games and not rushing them out ASAP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:45:00 No.136262520 Report

Quoted By: >>136262634

>>136262280
Hey EA rep, it's not a 1% change. It's over a -5% change. They take the worth of the stock at this moment and compare it to the stock worth at closing time yesterday. So that means, at this very moment the stock lost 5% worth compared to what it was worth at closing yesterday. Stop trying to act retarded.

Know what you're talking about before you troll.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:45:00 No.136262523 Report

Quoted By:

ANOTHA ONE BITES THE DUSTAAAA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262602 Report

Quoted By: >>136262958

So, if EA dies, what companies get to have their IPs?

They have a truckload of them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262607 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261991

Because now maybe people will wake the fuck up and listen to aspergers ridden neckbeards who actually know their shit when it comes to vidya. As aposed to trusting review websites who are paid off.

Or that drone consumers are finally realising they're eating the same shit over and over and its not worth their time or money.
And thus opening their eyes to all the recent games that are just piles of complete shit and trying to find the source and it always leads back to EA/Activision/Konami.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262625 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261995
>dat N64
I swear, that thing's circuitry must be lined with Nintendium, too. My brother poured a glass of chocolate milk into the cartridge slot and it still works to this day.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262632 Report

Quoted By: >>136262758

>>136262280
EA sure is getting their money's worth out of you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262634 Report

Quoted By: >>136262784 >>136263048

>>136262520
>5% change
no its not

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 No.136262654 Report

Quoted By: >>136262896

Karma for Westwood, Origin, Bullfrog and Pearl Harbour.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:47:00 No.136262730 Report

Quoted By: >>136262773

>>136261986
>implying they wouldn't be bitter fucks and just take the IP's to the grave.

i would love to see a revival in westwood's C&C. of course i wouldn't know how they would fix that train wreck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262758 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262632

I dont think he got the memo he got fired today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262769 Report

Quoted By:

I'm so glad for them, keep failing EA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262773 Report

Quoted By: >>136263067

>>136262730
Can they take the IPs to the grave?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262784 Report

Quoted By: >>136262998

>>136262634
> -4.57 @ 1h47 PM EDT
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=
0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1334606400000&chddm=576&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=INDEXNASDA
Q:.IXIC&cmptdms=0&q=NASDAQ:EA&

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262814 Report

Quoted By: >>136262998

>>136262280
>>136262280

-4.6% today alone. Shut the fuck up you slimy cunt. I hope you vomit over yourself as you take EA's money to post your horseshit here.

EA must die, for the good of humanity. The reverberations of EA's death would cause a revolutionary golden age for the consumer in this industry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262829 Report

Quoted By:

>they invested 30million dollars in POST LAUNCH advertising for Battlefield 3

Yeah well, that is just fucking stupid.
http://startupgrind.com/2012/04/exclusive-electronic-arts-set-to-lay-off-500-employees/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:48:00 No.136262831 Report

Quoted By: >>136262960

short sold EA today based on /v/'s advice

made like 200$ profit so far

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:49:00 No.136262896 Report

Quoted By: >>136262992 >>136263015 >>136263061 >>136263231

>>136262654

>Westwood

Shitty RTS games

>Bullfrog

Shitty RTS games

andnothingofvaluewaslost.jpg

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:49:00 No.136262958 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262602
>Activision buying Battlefield

ASSIMILATION COMPLETE

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:49:00 No.136262960 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262831
>trusting /v/'s advice when it came to real money
>ISHYGDDT

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136262992 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262896
>you

Shitty opinions

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136262998 Report

Quoted By: >>136263174 >>136263328 >>136263438 >>136263578

>>136262784
>>136262814
Yeah and its fucking 0.72 cents. Which is nothing. Their stock wasnt worth much to begin with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263001 Report

Quoted By:

>-4.64%
I guess the bots took over now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263015 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262896
You- HOMO!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263045 Report

Quoted By: >>136263330

Honestly, if EA goes down for good, it sends a big message to the industry. EA is a fucking giant, and it'll show other publishers to actually pay the fuck attention to your buyers and not to treat them like shit. A lot of huge businesses believe they're protected behind their wall of money, so if EA goes down it'll show other publishers that money won't save them if they treat their audience well.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263048 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262634
I know it's tempting everyone but try to to explode on this horrendous retard. Stay on the topic of how fucking shitty EA is.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263061 Report

Quoted By:

>>136262896
I'm telling your mother you're playing hooky again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:50:00 No.136263067 Report

Quoted By: >>136263198

>>136262773
>Can they take the IPs to the grave?

Not really. They'll sell off IPs to cover debts before they go into the grave.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:51:00 No.136263078 Report

Quoted By: >>136263261 >>136263294 >>136263414

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/168599/EA_eases_controversial_penalty_for_banned_Origin_users.php

That damage control.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:51:00 No.136263096 Report

Quoted By: >>136263387

For all you retarded EA drones. The red number left of the number in parenthesis represents a change in the last time the stock was updated, that was probably momenta ago, or just seconds ago.

The number in the parenthesis represents the change since market closing yesterday. So yes it did lost over 5% worth, since the last time the market closed. I know you guys are just trolling, but you're just making yourself look dumb. Even though everyone knows EA drones are born retarded. It's funny how all these EA drones are accusing people of not knowing about stocks, and then pretending to know.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:51:00 No.136263123 Report

Quoted By:

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
>homeless, starving ex-EA employees
shit's just getting better and better

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:51:00 No.136263152 Report

Quoted By: >>136263504

Too big to fail?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:51:00 No.136263174 Report

Quoted By: >>136263498 >>136263578

>>136262998

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:52:00 No.136263196 Report

Quoted By:

>retards complaining about job losses

Such is life. You want to create free energy for the betterment of society? That means a loss of jobs in the energy industry.

The net impact is better for the industry as a whole. A thriving company serves as an example for the rest of how business should be done. You don't want a terrible company like EA setting any example except how to earn the dismay of consumers and employees alike and, subsequently, crash and burn. A company like EA doing well is bad for the majority of workers, as well as the consumers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:52:00 No.136263198 Report

Quoted By: >>136263387 >>136263463

>>136263067
But if they decide not to sell them, what legally happens to those IPs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:52:00 No.136263231 Report

Quoted By: >>136264041

>>136262896

>Dune
>CnC
>Shitty RTS

GET THE MOTHER FUCKING FUCK OUTA HERE!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:52:00 No.136263261 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263078
that's pretty late on damage control, the damage is already done

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:53:00 No.136263294 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263078
Too late, EA, too late. Negotiation time is over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:53:00 No.136263328 Report

Quoted By: >>136263498

>>136262998
0.72 x 331.39M = 238.6 M$

Fuck, just use your blasted brain, goddamnit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:53:00 No.136263330 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263045

its like taking down the general of an apposing army. if EA goes down were are pretty much set for a long ass time.

there will be peace for at least 10 years.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:54:00 No.136263387 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263096
It is the change from teh previous trading day (thursday since they dont do it on fri + weekends)

>>136263198
I think they keep them. Probably the head honcho keeps em.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:54:00 No.136263414 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263078
>Still can't access part of the games you paid for because you stepped on someone's toes at some point

EA in charge of understanding the internet?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:54:00 No.136263438 Report

Quoted By: >>136263578

>>136262998

>200 million loss

>Nothing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:54:00 No.136263462 Report

Quoted By:

I guess you could say that EA is....under pressure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I&ob=av3n

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:54:00 No.136263463 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263198
You can't just decide not to sell off assets to cover debts. That's like saying you can just decide to stop paying your car payment and you still get to keep it.

If they end up in debt, they have to sell off assets to recover it. If they can choose not to sell off assets, then nothing is wrong and they just keep operating.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:55:00 No.136263483 Report

Quoted By:

USRR is too big to fall too, guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:55:00 No.136263498 Report

Quoted By: >>136263702 >>136263714

>>136263328
and see >>136263174

OH MY GOD MICROSOFT IS FINISHED

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:55:00 No.136263504 Report

Quoted By: >>136263693

>>136263152
>mfw EA is staying alive through your taxpayer money

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:56:00 No.136263578 Report

Quoted By: >>136264095

>>136263438
see
>>136263174
>>136262998

OH MY GOD MS IS DEAD RED HAT IS RICH

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:57:00 No.136263646 Report

Quoted By: >>136263739 >>136263751

I can't be happy about this /v/, I just can't. 1000 people were fired from their job ans now have to find new ones in this terrible fucking economy. EA has won my hatred yet again for allowing this to happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:57:00 No.136263657 Report

Quoted By:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts

>Nothing mentioning the recent damage control events

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:57:00 No.136263693 Report

Quoted By: >>136264445

>>136263504
But Obama doesn't give a shit about EA. The only reason he bailed the big 3 auto out was those companies are huge compared to what EA is. Besides, EA is the only big company that is dying. All the other ones are making profit. It wasn't like the auto industry where all of them were going down.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:57:00 No.136263702 Report

Quoted By: >>136263980

>>136263498
>>136263498

lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:57:00 No.136263714 Report

Quoted By: >>136263980

>>136263498
> Upward trend for something like the last 6 months
> Dying

Pick one, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:58:00 No.136263739 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263646
1000 people finally escaped EA before they ended up like Pandemic/Westwood/Bullfrog.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:58:00 No.136263751 Report

Quoted By: >>136263932

>>136263646
They made their choice. They chose to work for a shitty company.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:58:00 No.136263765 Report

Quoted By: >>136263870

Ea stock prices are the same as 13 years ago?

Guess you could say that they are going back to their origins

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:59:00 No.136263824 Report

Quoted By:

Wow, a lot of creative marketers here today.

Just GTFO, you're about to lose your jobs, fagets

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:59:00 No.136263851 Report

Quoted By:

look at them stocks

http://investor.ea.com/stockquote.cfm

Drop it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_LT8-uuX4

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 21:59:00 No.136263870 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263765
>picking black JC
Jesus Christ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:00:00 No.136263887 Report

Quoted By: >>136264086

wait someone thinks the government will bail out EA, a videogame company?

hah

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:00:00 No.136263910 Report

Quoted By:

they should have known that they were expendable when they sought a job at EA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:00:00 No.136263932 Report

Quoted By: >>136264069

>>136263751
>Choice
It's like you don't know the meaning of the word.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:01:00 No.136263980 Report

Quoted By: >>136264324 >>136265548

>>136263702
>>136263714
My point is EA never had shares to begin with (after 2008). Its going down but we have seen it go down before and then it went up the next day. I just hate that /v/ pretends to understand stocks because they can look at a fancy graph with a bad scale and say a company is dead/thriving.

Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:01:00 No.136264035 Report

Quoted By:

And nothing of value was lost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:01:00 No.136264041 Report

Quoted By: >>136264171

>>136263231

everything after C&C Zero Hour was shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:02:00 No.136264069 Report

Quoted By: >>136264301

>>136263932
So what? Someone held a gun up to their head and made them work at EA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:02:00 No.136264086 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263887
They're trading make-believe just like the banks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:02:00 No.136264095 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263578
well they do have a giant stake in most of the service software, so yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:03:00 No.136264171 Report

Quoted By: >>136264289

>>136264041
C&C3 was pretty good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:03:00 No.136264226 Report

Quoted By: >>136264320

>People thinking companies are charities.

Fuck that. Shitty companies dying off is a GOOD thing for consumers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:04:00 No.136264289 Report

Quoted By: >>136264428

>>136264171
if you're stupid.

C&C 3 was the second worst travesty to hit westwood's legacy.

scrin are a fucking joke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:04:00 No.136264301 Report

Quoted By: >>136265414

>>136264069

Confirmed for faggot living at home. Or libertarian child.

You've gotta eat. You take what you can get.

That said, it's better for the majority of workers in the industry if EA dies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:04:00 No.136264320 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264226
>Implying EA as a whole was shit
It's more complicated then that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:04:00 No.136264324 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263980
But we're talking about long-term stock capitalization, you retard.
If you look at the trends, you'll realize that over the 2011 year EA has underperformed as a company, because it stagnated while the whole NASDAQ index has increased

And yes, EA had the same number of shares back in 2011 than now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:05:00 No.136264357 Report

Quoted By:

>>136261721
>>136261721

>"You don't want to know what it's cost to put you next to him. It will cost you a piece of yourself. It will cost nothing compared to everything you'll save."

EA has the "call of duty audience" they've always said they wanted. In real life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:05:00 No.136264390 Report

Quoted By: >>136264471 >>136264605 >>136264771 >>136265173 >>136266306

Personally I can't wait for the desperate witch-hunt damage control. You know,

First come the lies:

>Now some of you may have heard we've lost quite a bit of profits in the past few months. Well, we at EA would like to inform you that this is a lie! Our company's image is being tarnished by the hacker group known as Anonymous, they are spreading rumors that we are losing money, but we promise this is false, and we will continue to publish great games for you, the consumer, to enjoy!

Then comes the paranoia:

>A former EA employee was thrown out of the central EA building today under suspicion of spreading company secrets on the internet. When asked, the employee expressed bewilderment that he was under suspicion, and commented, "They're going crazy, it's actually kind of scary".

Then, finally, the CEO himself makes a statement:

>"Well, internet hackers, I hope you're happy. We are losing more money than we have in years because of you. You caused us to fire thousands of our employees, and for what? Your stupid video games? Not even that, you forced us to purge our company because of your ENTITLEMENT! Well understand this, you homophobic instigators: WE ARE EA, WE ARE THE GAME INDUSTRY, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO LOSE TO YOU. Oh, and don't forget to buy Crysis 3!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:06:00 No.136264428 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264289
Still better than Tiberian Sun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:06:00 No.136264445 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263693
>The only reason he bailed the big 3 auto out was those companies are huge compared to what EA is. Besides, EA is the only big company that is dying. All the other ones are making profit. It wasn't like the auto industry where all of them were going down.

Virtually everything you said is so wrong it makes my eyes hurt

Firstly, he bailed them out because the auto-unions are his base. Secondly, they all wern't going down, only GM and Chrysler. Ford was fine, and didn't get a bailout, because Ford didn't run their company like retards (see GM).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:06:00 No.136264471 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264390
Pirates will take the blame. Again.
The heroes this industry needs.
:honoursword:

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:06:00 No.136264478 Report

Quoted By: >>136264819

A thousand people losing their job isnt funny, you fucking cunts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:06:00 No.136264479 Report

Quoted By: >>136264607

This is for all the companies you killed, EA.
RIP Pandemic
RIP criterion
RIP Dice
RIP origin
RIP Maxis
RIP Bioware
RIP Westwood
RIP Mythic
RIP bullfrog

This is revenge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:08:00 No.136264605 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264390

>hacker group

You forgot the "racist homophobic" part.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:08:00 No.136264607 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264479
Seeing a list of all the good companies EA butchered makes me really angry and sad

Mostly angry

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:09:00 No.136264681 Report

Quoted By: >>136264784 >>136264854

>homophobes
>implying /v/ doesn't fap furiously to traps

It's like EA has no idea who they're dealing with

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:10:00 No.136264771 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264390

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:10:00 No.136264784 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264681

>implying that they care about accurately representing this site's userbase

They just want to make the opposition look bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:11:00 No.136264819 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264478

think of all the new jobs that will be created once EA falls and loses the monopoly on the game industry

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:11:00 No.136264842 Report

Quoted By:

Have you learned nothing, EA? You have become all that your child companies fought against! Like that coward, Activision, you allowed yourself to be consumed by the greed... the hate... Feeding upon the misery of the companies you tortured and killed!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:11:00 No.136264854 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264681
>don't mess with trap fappers
Nope.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:12:00 No.136264887 Report

Quoted By: >>136264963 >>136265127 >>136265570 >>136266934

Is this going to be like last year with Nintendo when /v/ predicted they'd be dead by the end of the year but then they bounced back and were doing better than ever so /v/ just pretends it never said that?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:12:00 No.136264921 Report

Quoted By: >>136265010 >>136265198 >>136265750

How will EA crashing actually effect the videogame industry?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:12:00 No.136264923 Report

Quoted By: >>136265025

> decent command&conquer made by browder and other westwood remnants at blizzard.

All of my fucken money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:12:00 No.136264963 Report

Quoted By: >>136265248 >>136265570

>>136264887
I don't remember /v/ "predicting" nintendo's death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:13:00 No.136265010 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264921
The other big names will gobble up their IP's

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:13:00 No.136265017 Report

Quoted By: >>136265283

>The videogame crash everyone talked about for years, that people said wouldn't happen, is finally happening
>Gamers having enough of being fucked around, just like in 1985, and its killing media giants that abuse them

Its......its glorious.......I'm so happy today......

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:13:00 No.136265025 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264923
>i maek moota

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:14:00 No.136265072 Report

Quoted By:

>>136260785
I don't care if you were joking. Please commit sudoku.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:14:00 No.136265115 Report

Quoted By:

>SO CLOSE TO THE END BROTHERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmc8rJgxUI

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:14:00 No.136265127 Report

Quoted By: >>136265341

>>136264887
>A handful of faggots who don't like Nintendo say Nintendo will die
>/v/ watches EA burn
>MUST NOT BE HAPPENING, SOME FAGS HERE WERE WRONG BEFORE IT'S NOT HAPPENING IT'S NOT HAPPENING WHERE ARE YOU GOING THE HOLE IS A FEATURE

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:15:00 No.136265170 Report

Quoted By: >>136265229 >>136265317 >>136265592 >>136265779 >>136265935 >>136268010

You now realize that /v/ is responsible for the unemployment of 500-1000 regular, good people that were just trying to make a living.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:15:00 No.136265173 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264390
too bad it doesn't end with him hanging himself or shooting himself in the head with a 22.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:15:00 No.136265198 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264921

Hard to say. EA is a big player in the industry, so their falling will have an impact to be sure. I would wager that it will seriously force other video game companies to take a good look at how they've been treating their fans, because EA's falling will send one major message: consumers have the power to destroy you, and they will if you abuse them too much.

It's not one of those situations where a company can say "Oh, that won't happen to ME!", because that's the exact mantra that EA has been reciting for the past ten years.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:16:00 No.136265229 Report

Quoted By: >>136265439

>>136265170

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:16:00 No.136265248 Report

Quoted By: >>136265320

>>136264963
I see what you did there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:16:00 No.136265283 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265017

Not yet.

I hope that it happens with this next gen, though.

Please, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, put some safeguard on your consoles that prevents them from playing used games. See the result of attempting to strong-arm your customers.

And please don't let me down again, gamers...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:17:00 No.136265317 Report

Quoted By: >>136265464 >>136265476

>>136265170
They were Bioware employees.
They literally had years to realize that EA was poison and would eventually lay them off. Just like they did with every other studio.
They had time to leave the sinking ship.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:17:00 No.136265320 Report

Quoted By: >>136265435

>>136265248
I don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:17:00 No.136265341 Report

Quoted By: >>136265545 >>136267202

>>136265127
Except they used Nintendos loss of money and dropping stock as reason to why it would die, just like EA.

Face it, you know shit about business and if EA bounces back you'll act like this never happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:18:00 No.136265414 Report

Quoted By: >>136265575

>>136264301
And they chose a shitty company that made bad decisions. Such is life as a worker. Its life, sometimes companies fail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:18:00 No.136265435 Report

Quoted By: >>136265531

>>136265320
>/v/ acts like it never said that
>"I don't remember predicting Nintendos death"
>acting like you never said that

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:18:00 No.136265439 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265229
>angry old mens who are stucks in the ping pong era

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:18:00 No.136265464 Report

Quoted By: >>136265829 >>136266325

>>136265317

>Bioware

Ha, that means Hepler won't be working in the industry anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:18:00 No.136265476 Report

Quoted By: >>136265769

>>136265317
I can tell you are a clueless outsider.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265531 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265435
I don't, because /v/ is not one person, genius.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265545 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265341
Nintendo has NEVER lost money on the scale that EA is losing right now. They are actively hemorrhaging worth faster than a pig loses blood after having a chain through the neck.

Sorry you're going to lose your job, bro, but that doesn't mean you should make shit up at us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265548 Report

Quoted By:

>>136263980

I'm actually a Financial Risk Analyst. Right now, I'd only reccommend buying EA stock to short sell, following this news. It's always good to sell before a quarterly review, anyway (next one's on the 1st May). I'll be very interested to see what EA has to say, I've made $90,000 on EA so far, just by short selling. I feel pride selling 20,000 stocks all at once, and knowing I made EAs stock price fall by 0.02 cents.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265570 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264887
>>136264963
i remember a bunch of sony fags circlejerking over the 3ds' weak launch and saying nintendo was finished, but they do that at every nintendo system launch. ironically, it might actually be true for sony

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265575 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265414

Choice implies a lack of necessity.

Just like the American workers of the late 1800s, they needed jobs, so they had to work for the shitty employers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:19:00 No.136265592 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265170
I wish we were responsible, I really do.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:21:00 No.136265750 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264921
2 ways actually

after the giant dies off it will in fact create a massive vacuum for developers to expand and fill making quality games.

1 the company will break apart into much smaller better divisions the ones with competent leaders and work ethics will do well and fill said vacuum.

2 another large company will quickly buy up all of their assets and IP's making themselves an even larger monopoly and fill the vacuum with itself and mediocrity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:21:00 No.136265769 Report

Quoted By: >>136266194

>>136265476
I can tell you are a butthurt Bioware employee who didn't learn from what happened to Westwood, Mythic, Bullfrog, Maxis, Origin, Criterion, and Pandemic.

"It can never happen to us! We make Mass Effect and Dragon Age!"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:22:00 No.136265779 Report

Quoted By: >>136266236

>>136265170

Actually, all we did was inform EA that they were making a noose. To which they responded "No we aren't, we're making video games! Stop being such a hater!"

At this point, they dropped it over their neck, and we watched as they jumped off the chair. Now we're watching the last few twitches.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:22:00 No.136265829 Report

Quoted By: >>136266028

>>136265464

>It says here that you do not play games

>I'll give you one last chance... Do you think games need a fast forward button?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:23:00 No.136265935 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265170

I'm going to do your mum up the ass tonight. Hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:24:00 No.136266023 Report

Quoted By:

I imagine the internet after the fall of EA being similar to the ending of Return of the Jedi. Gaming sites from all over rejoice over the fall of the tyrant, they celebrate in their forums and spread merriment everywhere. And at the heart of it all is /v/, thoroughly overjoyed that EA is no more to the point that for one very, very brief minute, they ignore Reddit's and their claim that they did it singlehandedly, because even they can't stop /v/'s happiness. And at the end of it all, one lone virgin will look to the past and see the Force ghosts of all the companies who have fallen, Bioware being the last to join them. It would be glorious.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:24:00 No.136266028 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265829

>I believe that story and gameplay should be as disconnected from each other as possible. That way I won't feel bad for being bad at games and have to miss out large sections of exposition.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:25:00 No.136266068 Report

Quoted By:

Just a reminder to everyone on /v/: EA killed a man.

Their billing error caused the power to be cut from a house where a man was on life-support.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:26:00 No.136266194 Report

Quoted By: >>136266494

>>136265769
So anyone that challenges your shitty opinion is a Biodrone/EAsslicker? Get a grip boy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:27:00 No.136266236 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265779
not quite, more like were watching them tighten the noose more and more. if they dont make some major changes soon, that will be the jumping off the chair. EA is in some very deep shit, but they're not dead yet

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:27:00 No.136266306 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264390

>WE ARE EA, WE ARE THE GAME INDUSTRY, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO LOSE TO YOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu_30-8ZlmQ

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:27:00 No.136266325 Report

Quoted By: >>136266470

>>136265464
If they don't fire her and a few other key people EA will officially be committing suicide.
Her writing is one of the glaring flaw in bioware's games and her recent PR stunts have made EA have to cover her ass with all of this homophobe bullshit. Several hundred pounds of dead weight, Several shitty games, One failing company.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:29:00 No.136266470 Report

Quoted By:

>>136266325
They defended her hardcore, firing her now would be... dumb.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:29:00 No.136266494 Report

Quoted By: >>136266820

>>136266194
So anyone that challenges your shitty worldview is immature?

>that feel when you know you've won the argument because the other person starts using diminutive pronouns such as "kid" or "boy".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:30:00 No.136266601 Report

Quoted By:

Aren't these the guys who made it to where if you bought a preowned game, you had to pay THEM extra to play it online?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:31:00 No.136266668 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255390
Thats not what bothers me op

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:32:00 No.136266750 Report

Quoted By: >>136267796

>EA is dismantled.

>Origin is shutdown, all digital platform titles are moved to Steam. Every suckered consumer is given an appropriate Steam Key for their purchases.

>IPs are released from their holding cells.

>inXile Entertainment pick up the Ultima series. Riding off the success of Wasteland 2, they reboot Ultima 10 and fashion it into a true successor and new light in the Ultima franchise, isometric view, unprecedented interactivity with the world, and expand on the rich lore.

>Obsidian begin work on Knights of the Old Republic 3. Chris Avellone returns to writing. The game is published with the help of Brian Fargo and Kickstarter.

>Atari and Wizards of the Coast come to their senses and in a bold move give rights to Neverwinter Nights to CD Projekt Red as a gesture of good faith. CD Projekt release modding toolkit to the community and continue to support their latest game, NWN 3, through free modules.

>Trent Oster and his team at Beamdog are overcome by these recent events and are given the rights to make Baldur's Gate 3. They shut down the Beamdog service and distribute the final product through Steam with co-op powered by Steamworks.

>David Gaider, out of a job and still carrying the taint of EA, is turned down by numerous studios looking for work. He disappears for 5 years, making a triumphant return, fatter than ever before, thus his ability to write has been renewed. Begins work on a personal project we know nothing of yet.

>Valve acquire Digital Illusions CE, begin work on Mirror's Edge 2 and start supporting Battlefield 3. Nobody really cares since Half-life 3 still hasn't been released.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:33:00 No.136266803 Report

Quoted By: >>136267037 >>136267102 >>136267139 >>136267185 >>136267764 >>136268536

>implying anyone who made shit decisions is getting axed

Hi, I'm getting laid off.

The higher ups who decided to use the alpha Hero Engine for SWTOR blamed the programmers for not being able to completely reverse engineer and pretty much remake the engine, almost all of them fired.

The higher up who first spotted and introduced the Hero Engine got promoted up a rank.

Only good people are getting laid off, they're also prioritizing "majorities" that they feel are over represented (aka white straight men, then white straight women, then straight asians) for layoffs.

To stay with EA you either have to be either hard to replace, buddies with an exec or lie to boost your minority status.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:33:00 No.136266820 Report

Quoted By: >>136267201

>>136266494
I use kid or skippy when I am verbally talking down somebody that's being a total and absolute moron

Defending EA at this point is hilariously stupid, they did this too themselves, the board of investors should be calling for the CEO's head, rather then let him keep sinking the company

EA could have done some token firings too improve relations, they could have fired Hepler, they could have fired ME3's writer, they could have gone "Sorry, we fucked up with ME3, here, you can have the DLC for free with Jarvis, and we'll change the ending"

But no, instead, they completely fuck it up and call all of us "Uninformed and spoiled mob of trolls" when its not trolls that's mad at them, its the entire gaming populous as a whole

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:34:00 No.136266934 Report

Quoted By:

>>136264887
>Predicting /v/ dead
Was just a bunch of console babbys fighting each other.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:34:00 No.136266980 Report

Quoted By:

>>136255390

>EA fires 1000 people
>Bioware was fired

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:35:00 No.136267037 Report

Quoted By:

>>136266803
We arent happy that you are losing your job.

But one has to look on the bright side of things.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:35:00 No.136267050 Report

Quoted By: >>136267172 >>136267306 >>136267948

I hope you are Happy about this /v/. Jenny Heller here, and I give my face for the people that will loose their jobs! Shame on you!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:36:00 No.136267102 Report

Quoted By: >>136267210

>>136266803
They're laying off marketing and customer service, not programmers, you lying twat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:36:00 No.136267139 Report

Quoted By:

>>136266803
EA is dead then. Really really dead.

No company has survived this kind of downward spiral. Firing their good programmers and keeping the shitty, but black ones won't help them.

Plus, as you said, the guy who is responsible for the hero engine debacle is still there, spreading his taint.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:36:00 No.136267172 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267050
ur fat

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:36:00 No.136267185 Report

Quoted By: >>136267808

>>136266803

Why are they prioritizing women above Asian men? Surely there are more Asian men working in video games than there are women in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:37:00 No.136267201 Report

Quoted By:

>>136266820
>I use kid or skippy when I am verbally talking down somebody that's being a total and absolute moron
Good projecting there, brah.

>mfw I agree with the rest of your post and I don't see what the problem is, unless you're not the butthurt Bioware employee

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:37:00 No.136267202 Report

Quoted By: >>136267338 >>136267894 >>136268117

>>136265341
I'm sorry, but did EA already lose? Oh, that’s right. The game isn’t even over yet. In fact, it’s only April. Does not having the lead in April count as a loss? Is that what you’re saying? Because if you’re saying that I can assure you that you’re wrong. Why would you make this topic when the game is still on? EA are still playing right now and they have been the best publisher in the world for how many years now? They’re competing against one of the worst publishers in gaming, Activision/Blizzard, who just happen to have a lead because they’re feeding off the energy of Diablo III’s upcoming release. But you know what? They still fucking suck. EA are one of the best fucking publishers in gaming, they got 1.7million subscribers to TOR last year and would of gotten more if the server didn’t choke. Maybe you should shut the fuck up before you make retarded topics like this. You know why? Because you’re going to be embarrassed when EA wins and someone bumps this topic. Oh look at that, Crytek released details of Crysis 3 that will be Origin exclusive and still sell millions, just like Battlefield 3 did. Are you a fucking drunk? Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot and you should never make a topic on this board again and I’m fucking serious. I almost have a feeling you’re the only guy making all these anti-EA topics because you’re a faggot hater who doesn’t like the company because they’re good. Fuck you, be good at something in YOUR life and then maybe try to troll these fucking publishers on the board, like I give a fuck. It’s so easy to spot out your threads now, you’re a retard. Always doing stupid shit like this. Why don’t you try to be a good poster? Just for once? For once in your fucking life try not to make a topic like this. That’s just you, you’re always right at getting it wrong. Fuck you. You are nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:37:00 No.136267210 Report

Quoted By: >>136267565 >>136267742

>>136267102
>marketing being laid off
but how are they going to sell games?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:37:00 No.136267287 Report

Quoted By:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_LT8-uuX4

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:38:00 No.136267306 Report

Quoted By: >>136267659

>>136267050
I agree with woman. You bad people and You make people loose money. You bad and should be shame. I told my wife, they are shame. And she cried. I go an kill you if you shame again! Expect me Stanly Chan Woo, I will come on corner watching you, I will come and scream "END OF LINE" and you dead. And if you no dead, I will kill you and scream "LINE ENDS HERE".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:38:00 No.136267338 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267202
/sp/ pls go

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:40:00 No.136267517 Report

Quoted By: >>136267619 >>136267626

Wow, they pretty much admitted that TOR was a failure.

Anyone find more gems from their forums? I wonder how the biodrones will rationalize this one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:40:00 No.136267565 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267210
More like
>How are all their shitty gaymes going to get 90%+ reviews

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:40:00 No.136267591 Report

Quoted By:

>how could you celebrate this so many people lost their jobs?!

they fucking KNEW exactly who they'd be working under, theres enough horror stories and resources out there to show that EA is scum

I feel zero sympathy for them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:41:00 No.136267619 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267517
failing is a feature

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:41:00 No.136267626 Report

Quoted By: >>136267779 >>136269105

>>136267517
http://www.swtor.com/de/community/showthread.php?t=416704
Repost from a dying thread.

Basically, drones are still droning.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:41:00 No.136267659 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267306
You don't need to kill anyone. Denise gayder here, and I am here to tell you that 4chains will never go anywhere with this hate. You are the sole responsible for EA loosing stocks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267693 Report

Quoted By:

So, what is the best way to sell your account? I got a free 60 day card and used it when 1.2 dropped, but I'm ready to be rid of my account.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267704 Report

Quoted By:

>mfw that asshole Jeff Hickman and the rest of the Mythic execs keep their job
>mfw rage melted my face off

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267730 Report

Quoted By: >>136268006 >>136268102 >>136268287

You people really are sheep...
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/rumour-ea-preparing-for-500-1-000-layoffs/094475

>it's a rumor, faggots

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267742 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267210
They're going to make good games
PFFFFFFFFFFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267764 Report

Quoted By:

>>136266803
>>136266803

IT REALLY IS WAR ALL OVER AGIAN! HOLY FUCK!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267779 Report

Quoted By: >>136267841

>>136267626
Screencap TORforum posts please.

Forum requires a login.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:42:00 No.136267796 Report

Quoted By: >>136268081

>>136266750
>EA is dismantled.
Looking good so far.
>Origin is shutdown, all digital platform titles are moved to Steam. Every suckered consumer is given an appropriate Steam Key for their purchases.
Unlikely.
>IPs are released from their holding cells.
Also unlikely. See the corpse of Sierra.
>inXile Entertainment pick up the Ultima series.
Ultima's been dead for a long while, bro. Deal with it.
>Obsidian begin work on Knights of the Old Republic 3. Chris Avellone returns to writing. The game is published with the help of Brian Fargo and Kickstarter.
Kickstarter? Funding a game as big as KotOR? laughingbitches.jpg
>Atari and Wizards of the Coast come to their senses and in a bold move give rights to Neverwinter Nights to CD Projekt Red as a gesture of good faith.
Atari, CD Project, and WotC ever being logical and not full of themselves? Exceedingly unlikely.
>Trent Oster and his team at Beamdog are overcome by these recent events and are given the rights to make Baldur's Gate 3.
Highly unlikely. See Sierra again.
>David Gaider
You're assuming he had the ability to write in the first place.
>Valve acquire Digital Illusions CE, begin work on Mirror's Edge 2 and start supporting Battlefield 3. Nobody really cares since Half-life 3 still hasn't been released.
Okay, this would be pretty cool, but Valve keeps to themselves in terms of development. Having DICE as a subsidiary studio would be impossible, given their company organization. A long-term business partnership would be awesome, and I'd love to see DICE become fully independent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:43:00 No.136267808 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267185
Because there's more white women than asian men in the company.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:43:00 No.136267841 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267779
Locked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:43:00 No.136267894 Report

Quoted By: >>136268025 >>136268307 >>136268392 >>136268412

>>136267202
>>136267202

I created the topic, not the guy you are responding to.

Also, wow, that was one of the single most retarded rants I have ever read on /v/. That shit will be cut and pasted for years to come, fucking hilarious.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:44:00 No.136267948 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267050
if hepler gets fired ill be glad
but right now i just feel awful for the people who will probably get laid-off just because of their stupid mistakes

and their excuse?
>"sorry but we need fire you so we could support our gay fanfic writers"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:45:00 No.136268006 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267730

>EA denies lay-off reports

Because I believe everything EA says.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:45:00 No.136268010 Report

Quoted By:

>>136265170
Yeah fucking right, faggot. /v/ didn't make Bioware make an MMO, they also didn't make them run it like fucking retards, and they sure as hell didn't make them cut features from patches mere hours before the patch goes live. EA did this to themselves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:45:00 No.136268025 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267894
How new are you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:46:00 No.136268081 Report

Quoted By: >>136268440

>>136267796
>See the corpse of Sierra.

How is the collapse of an Activision subsidiary relative to the discussion? Is EA a subsidiary and nobody ever told us?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:46:00 No.136268102 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267730
TOR having ~5 subs at best is also only a rumour, huh?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:46:00 No.136268117 Report

Quoted By: >>136268229 >>136268392

>>136267202
>>136267202

Hahahahaha, oh wow. Screencapping this motherfucker. You just went full retard son.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:47:00 No.136268229 Report

Quoted By: >>136268389

>>136268117
How new are you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:48:00 No.136268287 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267730

>It goes on to speculate that CEO John Riccitiello is coming under increasing internal pressure to cut costs and get his house in order – a problem that has been exacerbated by a string of high-level corporate defections to rival Zynga.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:48:00 No.136268307 Report

Quoted By: >>136268710

>>136267894
>That shit will be cut and pasted for years to come, fucking hilarious.
It already has.

jesusfuckbitchniggercum

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jesusfuckbitchniggercum Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:48:00 No.136268326 Report

Quoted By:

>>mfw this probably means i'm out of my summer job
Hopefully they still need people for Fifa and Need for Speed 9000 this summer. Come on, EA, for old times sake!

Captcha: 2 letitor (To le tit, or not to le tit?)

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:49:00 No.136268389 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268229
>>136268229

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:49:00 No.136268392 Report

Quoted By: >>136268520

>>136268117
>>136267894
You two are fucking retarded. I have a feeling both posts are the same person

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:49:00 No.136268397 Report

Quoted By:

>" Andersen pointed to a variety of contributing factors for the cuts, noting that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic did not meet internal sales estimates, and is facing declining subscription numbers."

"Sounds like /v/ bait"
"Oh wait, its true"

Holy shit, all I can say is; EA, you deserved it you cunts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:49:00 No.136268412 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267894
>not recognising the Chargers pasta
SCOOBY DOOBY

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:49:00 No.136268440 Report

Quoted By: >>136268834 >>136268867

>>136268081
EA releasing their IP licenses will be like the death of Sierra all over again. It's taken years for IPs to be freed from Sierra's remains, and some IPs aren't yet free. Sierra was noted to be terrible all around, but EA outshines it in shittiness in every aspect.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:50:00 No.136268457 Report

Quoted By:

One word for all this EA hate train:

DROP IT

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:50:00 No.136268520 Report

Quoted By: >>136268539

>>136268392
>>136268392

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:50:00 No.136268536 Report

Quoted By: >>136268664

>>136266803
> working for bethsda
> not getting laid off
> ever
life is good brother

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:50:00 No.136268539 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268520
Nope.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:51:00 No.136268610 Report

Quoted By:

>"buy" a developer
>make them fire all the talented people who worked with there for ages and have tonnes of experience
>make them hire some "EA approved" homosexual retards who have no idea what to do
>give them a miniscule budget
>give them unreal deadlines
>demand a masterpiece
>rush it all the way
>cut content and sell it as DLC
>treat their customers like shit
>spend huge sums on PR and going as far as to pay some group of faggots to boycott them and raise some noise
>fire even more employes when even people oblivious to all this finally refuse to eat this shit
oh EA.
I will have a foreveralone party drinking myself shitless when they finally sink. If only there was a way to carve out the old westwood, bioware and the other devs which this monster consumed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:52:00 No.136268664 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268536
i can't even spell my employer's name right.
but then i'm drunk as a bird right now

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:52:00 No.136268710 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268307
>>136268307

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:54:00 No.136268834 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268440
>It's taken years for IPs to be freed from Sierra's remains, and some IPs aren't yet free.

Because Sierra was a god damn subsidiary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:54:00 No.136268867 Report

Quoted By: >>136268960 >>136269457

>>136268440
What was terrible about Sierra? Homeworld, Outpost 2, and Betrayal in Antara were some of my favorite games of all time

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:55:00 No.136268960 Report

Quoted By: >>136269092

>>136268867
How many times do I need to tell you you don't fucking judge publisher by the games devs made?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:56:00 No.136269019 Report

Quoted By: >>136269143 >>136269245 >>136269715 >>136270013

>-5.01%
Can they break the -6%? place your bets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:57:00 No.136269092 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268960
But Sierra Entertainment was a developer

For Betrayal in Antara anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:57:00 No.136269105 Report

Quoted By:

>>136267626
>Originally Posted by Rogobono
>Of course it is declining, if you don't see it, you are straight up ignorant. If anyone was here at release, the servers were all at FULL capacity, now they have trouble breaking LIGHT capacity. Just remember, you'll always have the Star Wars movies, it'll help ease the pain of losing this from your life.

>I have a tank full of water that is full to capacity. I alter the dimensions, thereby potentially allowing more water to be put in the tank. It is no longer full and yet there is the same amount of water in there.

>Regardless of how i alter the dimensions in this analogy, do you see how your logic is flawed?

pure denial at its finest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:57:00 No.136269109 Report

Quoted By:

Bump for Rage Cannon

EA IS DYING BUH

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:57:00 No.136269143 Report

Quoted By: >>136269367

>>136269019
no
-4.88%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:58:00 No.136269245 Report

Quoted By:

>>136269019
i'll take that bet

i will place 10 Internets on going to 5.5 on closing bell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:59:00 No.136269358 Report

Quoted By:

>took a business course and passed
>completely forgot what this stock shit is about

Welp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:59:00 No.136269367 Report

Quoted By:

>>136269143

no 4.697%

http://investor.ea.com/stockquote.cfm

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:00:00 No.136269423 Report

Quoted By:

>Zynga has -5.65% losses
Serves them right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:00:00 No.136269447 Report

Quoted By: >>136269524 >>136269756 >>136269960

How much dosh is 5% in real terms?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:00:00 No.136269457 Report

Quoted By:

>>136268867
It took Relic years to wrestle the rights to Homeworld from Sierra. They only got the rights in 2010, if I recall correctly.
Hi-Rez only got the rights to the Tribes series very recently as well.

On other fronts, Volition has been wrestling with the corpse of Interplay since 2004 over the rights to the Freespace series. Last word on that issue was that Volition /likely/ got the rights to Freespace, but mum's been the word both from Interplay and Volition.

If you think acquiring IP rights from EA is going to be easy for /anyone/, you're dead wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:01:00 No.136269524 Report

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>>136269447
5% of their 4 billion dollar company.
$200mil gone in the blink of an eye, and /v/ just fucking watched.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:02:00 No.136269591 Report

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>implying i feel bad about entitled devs like hamburger helper being fired and going back to fanfiction.net and grorious biowale moderatore stanry woo having his moderator job outsourced to BEST COREA

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:03:00 No.136269715 Report

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>>136269019
i wish for 6% and more

but for real it won't go more than 5-5.5%
though thats heavy loss for such big company. And I love it. I hope they burn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:03:00 No.136269756 Report

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>>136269447
331,390,000 shares, each losing a full dollar between today's high and low, is $331,390,000 in lost value.
EA stock has lost around $330,000,000 in no more than a few hours.
Or SWTOR's development costs.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:04:00 No.136269772 Report

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>>136269524
>wa wa we wa
>Those a SPICY meatballs

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:04:00 No.136269794 Report

Quoted By: >>136270000

-5.38%

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:04:00 No.136269809 Report

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>Mfw Zynga is up shit creek too
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ZNGA

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:04:00 No.136269847 Report

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>>136269524
Oh, so much money wasted. So sweet. It's music for my ears.
Going to send few emails to EA with congratulations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:05:00 No.136269960 Report

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>>136269447
When the stock goes down money doesn't magically disappear from EA's bank account

Stock price reflects the perceived value of the company, so when the stock price drops 5%, it means the market thinks EA is 5% less valuable as a company than it was when the market opened.

In real dollar terms, over $300m

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:05:00 No.136269963 Report

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>>136269809

Man. And EA higher ups were defecting to Zynga.

Is there just like a curse of failure that surrounds anyone who is an executive for EA?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:06:00 No.136270000 Report

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>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
>>136269794
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>>136269794
FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:06:00 No.136270013 Report

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>>136269019
As much as I'd love to see them hit -6%, I just don't see it happening by the end of the day. Here's hoping a continued downward trend tomorrow. The week is just beginning!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:07:00 No.136270107 Report

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-5.44% general

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:12:00 No.136270587 Report

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Proper way to revive game industry.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:13:00 No.136270680 Report

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>>136270587
>having origin installed in the first place

Get fucked

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:13:00 No.136270741 Report

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>>136270587
>Even having it installed in the first place.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:15:00 No.136270859 Report

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>>136270587
7-25-2011

Its a nasty trroo

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Anonymous Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:15:00 No.136270903 Report

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New Thread

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>>136270741
mind hive

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