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EA For Sale
Written by: Warmice
Published on: Aug-17 10:56


Game-publisher formerly known as Electronic Arts (now EA) is up for sale. The US game publishing giant is in negotiations with investors. Stock is being priced at 20 US dollars. We currently do not know what that puts the total stocks worth at.

It is said that EA is being sold due to a 37% decrease in its market share. There may be other reasons as well but it seems that this would be the main cause for sale...

9 months ago EA shares sold at $25.20 but the company's trade record was 2005 when in Feb of that year their stock shifted at $68.20. However, the stock market is a complicated beast and it seems that the company would now look to accept $20.

We already knew EA wasn't doing so well lately (Battlefield 4 already?), and now it has come down to corporate sale.

The publisher itself hasn't released any official news yet so this transaction could still not go ahead. EA already announced earlier this week that their digital games would get the upper hand. EA had a relatively succesfull press conference on Gamescom, however this was not enough to prevent decrease of market share.

Whats your thoughts guys? EA are one of the very biggest publishers of games, do you think they have over reached themselves or is this a planned consolidation that will push them into releasing even more big budget games?



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icerink239
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Ugh NO
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If EA dies, Call of duty will be #1 FPS on the planet :/
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I think some other publisher will take care of Battlefield :)
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Ubisoft :X
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EA isn't dying, they are just up for sale, just like Blizzard is.
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You never know what will happen next ;)
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EA is a name I hope will disappear from our lives F-O-R-E-V-E-R.
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hehe Ubisoft rocks:)
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because they don't trust in new Win8 :)
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Goddamn it.. I hope that won't affect their games like the Battlefield series.. :(
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lol goodbye EA hopefully the company that takes over is better than you were.
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Hope so :D
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i bet EA will be on top again someday :D
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After it gets sold maybe "D
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How come I ain't surprised? EA has been like sh*t for a long time now, they got what was coming for them :D
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It had to happen someday :D
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YES!!!! It's like my prayers came true!!!!!!!!
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Well, they did ruin lots of games.. :D
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That's harsh, even though EA screws up from time to time xD
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Your planning to buy it so you can name your teddybear Electronic Arts without getting copyright strikes?
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\o/
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Everybody seems to be happy :D
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