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Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?

Posted Aug 16, 2012 at 7:00PM EST by Christopher Groux

Listed in: Rumors, News Tags: EA, Electronic Arts, kkr, providence equity partners
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Coming straight from the New York Post, it appears that EA is at the very least pandering to talks of sale with some very big whig and experienced gaming equity firms. Through the involvement of such companies as KKR and Providence Equity Partners, there seems to be little doubt that some serious chatting is going on between EA and a couple of interested parties. After all, with stock prices just passing the $14 mark this morning, what company wouldn't want  a little piece of the pie that is Electronic Arts? Not to mention Providence's previous involvement with Bethesda would make this story all the more likely.

 

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Still, while the ducks seem to be in a row for EA, most industry insiders say a sale won't happen right now or at all. Some say that if the stocks were just a little higher management just might bite the bullet, but until then, this towering development team will probably reign supreme as is. What do you guys think? Are you thrilled about the possibility of EA literally selling out?

 

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# RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?Todd B 2012-08-17 14:04
Best I can do is $5.

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# RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?Xeraxir 2012-08-17 14:37
Rather than persecute companies that develop games we should think more carefully about game purchases, we vote with our dollars and the games we get today are the result of calculating what people want based on what they purchase. If EA sells out it makes little difference in the long run, one giant company being swallowed up by another company is not a major change.

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-3 # RE: RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?Its ME 2012-08-17 20:17
Well said. Companies will cut corners, manipulate and shave bits off everywhere they can get away with it, and they get away with it mostly because people still pay them regardless. And when we vote with our wallets, suddenly "piracy" is on the rise and they guilt us in to buying more of their shit.

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-3 # RE: RE: RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?Xeraxir 2012-08-18 08:46
That is why I "pirate" games to try them before purchasing them when possible. Besides, used game stores hurt the game industry more than piracy since none of the money in used game sales goes to the software developers.

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+2 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?tosh.0 2012-08-20 13:57
"Besides, used game stores hurt the game industry more than piracy"

That's a pretty big claim to make with zero evidence seeing as how "used games" and "game rentals" have been around since the very beginning.

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# RE: Electronic Arts is Looking To Sell?Martin 2012-08-18 12:36
I think this doesn´t interest that much to the consumers, I mean the prices for games will still be the same or higher, but they will keep doing what they do as big companies, ppl inside the industry should be more into this, since they are the ppl more related than consumers, so if the big guys above change some seats, they are the ones that might get affected, the devs, the designers, artist and etc., may be how the get pay or how much could be affected, but who knows.

@Xeraxir I play some games before actually wanting them, like try them before actually considering buying, but only big tittles from big greedy comanies like EA, Sony, Activision and those, but from indie devs/companies/studios I put my respect to them and try the game if there is a trial or if a friend bougth it, if I really like it I buy. I say that indie studios are getting more famous since they have limited size teams, and still manage to get awesome tittles for their quality in the game they develop, as companies where those started out long time ago, awesome games, with nice story, gameplays, characters and a blast of fun, whitout necesarely having all this graphis and short game plays and huge bugs and overly prices.

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