| sethnintendo said: Okay... Explain Westwood Studios, Bullfrog, Origin, and the countless other victims of EA. |
Companies that would have been purchased and killed off by another corporation or may have went bankrupt long before they were closed down by EA. While they haven't been shut down yet, Criterion was on the verge of bankruptcy when EA purchased them and paid off their debts in 2004. It's been 10 years and just recently they have downsized the developer, and it could be because of the losses that EA is getting from them lately but we also don't know how many people they downsized them to either.
How many companies have been purchased and closed by Activision, Sony, etc? What about companies that have been purchased and immediately closed down because the purchaser just wanted the IPs? EA is certainly better than that last one. Sony has purchased companies that have been doing well, like Psygnosis who was a game developer and decent sized publisher, and for quite awhile they've stuck them on doing nothing but the Wipeout series rather than the large library of IPs that they could have drawn from, and because the Wipeout sales have been getting worse and worse, Sony closed Sony Liverpool down. This is a company that wasn't even struggling when they were purchased.
Every company that EA has purchased and later shut down has been because the company has stopped producing a profit. It's going to happen regardless of the publisher. Many companies don't outright say whether they're closing a developer down or not, they lay off people and the development studio sits in limbo.
