Are you kidding????[/quote]

Nope not at all.[/quote]

Take 2 has posted 2 consecutive years of financial losses. Take 2 is struggling. Take 2 is nothing more than a fly on an elephants a$$.

TTI is just stalling in effort to drive the price up before they sell. Get it through your head 2k fanboys. This deal will go through eventually.

This is about money not games. Can you comprehend that?

Are you kidding????[/quote]

Nope not at all.

Da Birthday Boy wrote:

2K Sports is no competition for EA, just check the sales they are in no way threatened by them, name one way.

EA’s sales are good on some games. Their PC versions of their Madden and Live games are less than steller. Although Madden on PC plays great, Live on PC has been CRAP. Live in general is CRAP. Since 06 EA’s game have been filled with bugs, glitches, bad animation and clippings from a company that is so big they dont put out QUALITY.
NLSC forums had to write a letter to EA complaining about Live. Reviews of Live have been in the dumps. EA prides itself on sales, and not quality.
Why did EA drop Madden and Live on PC BDay boy? Please answer this one, and do bring up sales in your argument, as well as quality.
I wish I could find that link where EA was not happy that 2k released APF, they were not happy at all. If anyone has that link please post it, for those that havent read it.
EA knows they are 2nd fiddle when it comes to NBA games. They already have the license for NFL, all some company needs to do is make a fully customizable football game, and Im sure people will buy that if the gameplay is stellar. If APF was fully customizable and had a franchise Im sure it would do a lot better that what APF did, but the fact that people wen tout and bought APF, EA has to look at this and have concern over their exclusive since people are buying other football games.

Are you kidding????

How about NBA 2K and NBA Live? 2K sports may not be the major reason behind the take over, but they ARE a reason. It’s not just message boards stating this either, it’s financial analysts. EA were not happy at all that 2K were able to find a loop hole to release their own pro football title – regardless of how it sold. They are paying a truck load of cash for the NFL license.

Yes! I’m a Reds fan too. No Cueto yet? It’s insane. Half the team doesn’t have player pictures too, which I heard are coming in the next update.

Thanks Pasta for getting back to me on that. When I read your article I got worried. Let’s hope that EA cares more about customer satisfaction than 2K does if this deal goes down.[/quote]

EA knows PR, but the true test of how much a company truly cares about its customers is with its products. In this respect EA fails. They are the biggest, and the less competition they have, the less reasons they have to improve their games. EA Sports is the biggest proof of this when you have games like Madden 08 having a completely broken season mode. FNR3 was also a big joke. EA sold that game through the slo-mo facial ripples. The gameplay itself is not representative of the sweet science, it was horse manure. NBA Live series is also a joke. 2K Sports is the thorn on EA’s side, make no mistake about it. EA will do just fine without the GTA franchise. If that’s what they were truly after they should’ve started the whole buyout many months ago. Surely, they could’ve anticipated how big GTA 4 would be. So they wait until the cat’s out of the bag before they make their offer? Prizefighter will be(or would’ve been if the takeover is successful)the stake through EA’s heart once 2K makes a statement to prove its superiority over EA.

Ok, maybe not.

But the possibility of 2K Sports disappearing is almost depressing. The thought of NFL 2K10 was so nice before it was announced that EA extended the contract. Having an APF 2K9 would help soften the blow.