Electronic Arts buys PopCap in $1.3bn deal

[Easy Rhino]

see kids, make a really easy game that is fun and addictive with very basic graphics and you too could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...lectronic-Arts-buys-PopCap-in-1.3bn-deal.html

here is one section i found particularly interesting...

Shares fell following the announcement as investors balked at EA's strategy of shifting toward digital games, which make less money than the packaged games it is best known for, such as "Madden NFL", said Brean Murray analyst Todd Mitchell.
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Mr Mitchell added that EA, which acquired social-games maker Playfish in 2009 for a deal worth up to $400m, has also been on a buying spree.

"It seems to me they've been buying a lot of assets lately and paying a pretty high price for a lot of them," he said.

But at least one shareholder was satisfied with the deal and said that once Facebook games publisher Zynga goes public, EA shares will rise and the PopCap deal will pay off.

 

[bbmarley]

dammit now ima have to pay xtra 5 a month to play bejeweled in wow while people are afk

 

[1Kurgan1]

dammit now ima have to pay xtra 5 a month to play bejeweled in wow while people are afk

That addons been out of date forever, doubtful unless they update it. I had to turn it off because everytime I died the bejeweled window popped up, lol.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

And watch all of PopCap's games trend towards suckage.

 

[AsRock]

And watch all of PopCap's games trend towards suckage.

Yup..