seriously, it doesnt matter if they would have gotten a bunch of money, they stand by their work! they are proud of what they do, they dont want EA to limit their creativity. pachter your job is entirely useless, i want to be a market analyst too, so i can state the obvious, of course they arent going to get a better offer, but they seem fin the way they are.

EA and Take-Two as companies may both stand to profit from a buy out... but that same deal will screw the consumer. we dont' need a GTA 2009, 2010, 2011. EA puts out about .5 quality titles a year and about 300 pieces of *****! if for some reason satan should see fit to grease the wheels on this deal and Take-Two gives in, i hope beyond all hope that rockstar jumps ship! EA may be the biggest third party publisher out there, but they're also the worst! hold out take-two is $10 stock price worth losing all credibility? i say no!

it would make our days much less stressful if you didnt post any articles about pachter, hes an idiot, and a monkey could do his job. seeing as i kind of look monkeyish, i'll take the job, lots of money no work!

Mainly when there's a prediction or outright fabrication from this idiot.



He's never right about anything and the things he is "right" about are so obvious a 12 year old could have predicted it.



I'm sick to death of this guy please stop posting his bull*****!

EA is just going to increase their offer until the shareholders accept, even if the Board tells them not to. EA can afford any price.



Pretty much this was guaranteed when EA let it be known that they want T2, when EA wants to buy you EA buys you.

ea offered to buy me for two one thousandths of a cent, but i declined. Im worth atleast 3. ;]

umm do you know how shares work because thats a dollar ontop of every share, so its alot of money.



However I'm happy that they didn't accept the deal, don't need god quality games to go to the drain

people hating michael pachter for saying this are idiots.

first and foremost pachter is a business analyst, and secondly a casual family gamer.

his first and foremost concern is the financial system of a company.

before you kids thought about it, he has thought about it a thousand times, he knows take2 in the hands of EA would be a general monopolization of games, specially in sports titles. he knows what will be the outcome but it is NOT his job to defend the gamers pride. HE IS MERELY STATING OUT WHAT HE PERSONALLY THINKS OF THE SITUATION and who may end up getting what.



suffice to say i am very happy that take2 is still its own company, innovating games in each and every release, whereas the quality of EA has dumbed down consecutively for example the need for speed series, underground 1 was ok, underground 2 was great, most wanted is average, carbon was ok, and the nfs pro street is both dumb and stupid. what next for EA's NFS?



no one is to be blamed, this things happens because business work in many ways and this is just one of em. big companies eating small ones had been going on since the very first days of trading history.