Astorian
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Games giant Electronic Arts gatecrashes £725m Codemasters takeover
The $40bn US-based games giant EA has ignited a bidding war for Britain's Codemasters, Sky News understands.
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Games giant Electronic Arts gatecrashes £725m Codemasters takeover
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James Sawyer Ford
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Why is Codemasters so valuable? They make games nobody buys. Sony shut down Evolution Studios for similar reasons
trufflepigg
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what's codemasters? commentary op....you should try it!
sunnysideup
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what license do they own?
M1chl
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And Codemasters pick them up, I mean being probably one of most mainstream racing game company, not the mention 3rd party, it's unique in it's position. I think EA could made better racing games than they do by buying them.
Silent Viper
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In the end MS outbids both and acquires Code masters 
Kataploom
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They're the devs of GRID and some others high profile race sims
ChuckeRearmed
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But it is less than the proposed one no?
Sony and its community like only GT, third-person games, JRPG and some arcades. So basically everything else is not that popular on PS.
F1 license basically. Also - unlike Sony - EA probably has the rights to various sport racing games like Nascar etc.
Sony and its community like only GT, third-person games, JRPG and some arcades. So basically everything else is not that popular on PS.
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Genx3
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In the end MS outbids both and acquires Code masters
EA games already end up on Game Pass so now that I think about it I rather EA win the bid....
LisaMariaMartin
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Will EA eat the breakup fee?
HE1NZ
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Operation Flashpoint
turtlepowa
Banned
All the bad guys buying studios, good guy Sony needs to buy something. Overlord 1+2 and Operation Flashpoint were some really good games.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
jufonuk
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If sony was such a good guy it would share all PS profits with Nintendo mwhahahahahahhhhhhahhhhhahhhahhaha
Also I’m kidding. I hope who ever buys them treats them well. They made some absolute classics back in the megadrive days.
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Self High Five
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Imagine being excited to pay an ongoing $180 a year subscription because *select* EA games are available.
fermcr
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So cute that you think Sony are the good guy...
Genx3
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If that $180 a year gives you thousands of dollars in enjoyment it is well worth it.
PlayerPurple
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Codemasters also owns the Project Cars developers Slightly Mad Studios, who had made Need for Speed Shift for EA back in the day.
It's hard to imagine what Take Two would do with this developer anyway...have them make a new Midnight Club?
It's hard to imagine what Take Two would do with this developer anyway...have them make a new Midnight Club?
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PhoenixTank
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So long Codemasters, and thanks for Micro Machines.
Daffy Duck
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Oh god no, they’ll end up being made to just churning out NFS games
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Kacho
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They want to bolster their sports lineup with F1 and rally racing games
Calverz
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Dont they also have the wrc licence as of next year?
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
More for GamePass!
StreetsofBeige
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Thats a lot of money to pay for a studio that makes Dirt and F1 games.
However EA probably needs them to diversify their library. NFS is crap.
However EA probably needs them to diversify their library. NFS is crap.
-Arcadia-
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Really hope EA doesn’t win this. We can debate how you feel about Codemasters until the end of time, but I would argue them as a good studio that makes fun games. That’s gone if EA steps in. Nothing but sheer, cold, generic corporatism and maximizing revenues exists in that environment.
N1tr0sOx1d3
Given another chance
We’ll have to agree to disagree.
A new Motorstorm with new gen technology would have been beast.
Gfx, physics, weather, environmental effects, particles, 60fps.... it really is a missed opportunity.
BusierDonkey
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Maybe EA will shitcan Codemasters the way Codemasters shitcans all the studios they buy.
Then Microsoft can buy EA and shitcan them too.
Then Microsoft can buy EA and shitcan them too.
ChuckeRearmed
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Don't know. WRC games are made by the different company after all?
If EA gets the license then it make sense to acquire Codemasters.
I wonder why they moved so late though.
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YawerhasPower
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Overlord
TwiztidElf
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EA gets the F1 license back? Hooray!
Bitmap Frogs
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From one microtransaction peddler to a different microtransaction peddler?
Can't find a reason to be excited...
Can't find a reason to be excited...
Calverz
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I just googled it. Codemasters got the WRC licence for 5 years from 2023. This probably makes them even more attractive to ea and take two. Assuming the licence would then carry over.
Skifi28
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Do people actually buy any of them? The mainstream dirt games are getting worse and worse. Dirt rally is good but kind of niche. F1.....is just stale at this point.
Vae_Victis
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I doubt the point is to put the studio in a position to make better games. But they sure can fill up a nice and rich racing games catalogue with lootboxes.
EA's economic company model is basically based on microtransactions at this point. If they turned them off overnight, they'd be bleeding a lot of money from the next day. Might as well go all-in while you can, before legislators around the world start taking the thing really seriously.
EA Earns Nearly $1 Billion from Microtransactions Last Quarter
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SlimySnake
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A large part of that is the licenses I bet.
Also, DriveClub actually sold 2 million less than a year. It was by no means a failure. Hell, if Sony had done what they wanted to, they wouldve given it the Gran Turismo title like Forza Horizon. But kaz said no, and sony ended up shutting down the better racing dev they had.
Codemasters has actually been acquiring a bunch of devs in recent years. After picking up evolution studios, they acquired slightly mad studios who make the Project Car series. They already had the yearly F1 sim (Full license), and this year they acquired the WRC license they lost 18 years ago.
they are a very attractive proposition to a big Publisher like EA. They will have a rally game every year with the Dirt Rally team making the rally sims (very popular among hardcore rally racing fans) and the evo studios team making the arcade dirt series. They finally have a respectable racing sim like Project Cars which can fill in years Forza and GT dont show up. I fear the GRID team will be the odd man out, but for a Publisher that has basically turned into a subscription based yearly sports franchise publishers, these racing IPs are going to bring in a steady sum of money every year.
That is, if they dont fuck it up like they do usually do.
Warablo
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Midnight Club will suck without Rockstar's magic.
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