EA acquires Respawn Entertainment for as much as $455million

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flashfire926 on 09 November 2017

Ka-pi96 said:
Makes a lot of sense from EA's perspective.

Makes no sense at all for Respawn though. Didn't they leave Activision to form their own independent studio? And now they're under some big scummy publisher again?

Many of the devs at respspawn actually used to be under EA and made the good Medal of Honor games back in the day. Then they went on and formed Infintiy ward and worked on COD until MW2. After that like 90% of infinity ward was fired by activision, they went on to form Respawn and reunite with EA for Titanfall and Titanfall 2.

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Darc Requiem on 09 November 2017

DAXFM said:
2022: EA shutting down Respawn Entertainment

Damn....didn't realize I was ninja'd by a hour.

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pitzy272 on 09 November 2017

Ka-pi96 said:
Makes a lot of sense from EA's perspective.

Makes no sense at all for Respawn though. Didn't they leave Activision to form their own independent studio? And now they're under some big scummy publisher again?

This. Really, this seems so nonsensical.

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Raven on 09 November 2017

Another one for the pile in about 5 years.. poor Titanfall.

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VAMatt on 10 November 2017

Ka-pi96 said:
Makes a lot of sense from EA's perspective.

Makes no sense at all for Respawn though. Didn't they leave Activision to form their own independent studio? And now they're under some big scummy publisher again?

Makes tons of sense. $455 million dollars for the shareholders. They were working with EA anyway. So, not much will change. Why not sell the company before they release a dud and the value drops by $200mm?

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KrspaceT on 10 November 2017

I'd mourn, but I happen to recall that the developer was one who was particularly annoying about Switch power

"No. F*** no. No you're not going to be able to fit Titanfall on it. That's the same Zelda from the Wii U [laughs]."

.....I am not going to particularly miss them.

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