EA Said to be in Take Over Discussions

[Sam_Reynolds]

Bloomberg and CNN Money are reporting that South Korean, though Tokyo headquartered, game company Nexon has made a bid to take over Electronic Arts.

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[blaze_125]

I played Nexon products for a while. I hope this won't happen.

[terrybear]

Well I play combat arms which is done by nexon & well as long as they can admin EA, bring back titles to the pc & keep hackers out of there online games i'd not complain if they took them over.

[geokilla]

Maplestory on PS3 and XBOX soon?!

[Delaro]

Just goes to show you how much money crappy F2P games can make. If it goes through lets just hope Nexon can clean up EA.

[Kommie986]

Noooo! Nexon is crap! Most "F2P" (AKA: "P2W") game companies are crap. All they want is money.

[geoc]

How does nexon have the money to buy the biggest video game company in the US?? Is the russian mafia behind this???

[Arinoth]

Originally Posted by geoc

How does nexon have the money to buy the biggest video game company in the US?? Is the russian mafia behind this???

That was my thoughts, though it's probably the South Korean Mafia.

[Dzzope]

Originally Posted by Kommie986

Noooo! Nexon is crap! Most "F2P" (AKA: "P2W") game companies are crap. All they want is money.

And EA aren't?

hmm. lets release some maps and a few vehicles and charge people for it when they got fook all of either in the first place...

Hope they do better than EA.. Would be hard to do worse (IMO)

[ilya]

Originally Posted by Kommie986

Noooo! Nexon is crap! Most "F2P" (AKA: "P2W") game companies are crap. All they want is money.

By your logic EA is even worse than Nexon considering EA's F2P portfolio is way bigger.