lol, probably the prophecy of the terrible and mighty empire of *.*. Games. They infiltrated WW and sudden with a Tr- Soviet invasion, took over the powerful WW, and rushed RA2+YR. And WW made Ren, didja forget? _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject:
Dunno...
*goes check the game boxes*
Bloody hell! EA published WW's games even when TS came out! Even though they had a very different logo, it still says "Electronic Arts"...
The RA1 box says Virgin Interactive as the publisher... QUICK_EDIT
lol, probably the prophecy of the terrible and mighty empire of *.*. Games. They infiltrated WW and sudden with a Tr- Soviet invasion, took over the powerful WW, and rushed RA2+YR. And WW made Ren, didja forget?
Destiny, your fan boyism is showing. _________________ ... QUICK_EDIT
lol, at least I don't have a weeaboo EA also took over Virgin Interactive...now how did? EA's eating up companies...lol. I wonder... _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
Do you even know what that means? I could easily turn that word against you, while use against me would be meaningless and a complete violation of what the word means.
Anyway, Virgin Interactive sold themselves to EA. Westwood was bought up after they had financial problems... _________________ ... QUICK_EDIT
Anyway, Virgin Interactive sold themselves to EA. Westwood was bought up after they had financial problems...
Wrong, the company who owned Virgin Interactive wanted to sell it for nearly a year, but refused to split the assets up. In 1998 they reversed this and EA offered for the American assets, Westwood came as a part of this deal. Westwood never had any financial difficulties, it was just a case of a massive company buying out the stock of a smaller one. QUICK_EDIT
Anyway, Virgin Interactive sold themselves to EA. Westwood was bought up after they had financial problems...
Wrong, the company who owned Virgin Interactive wanted to sell it for nearly a year, but refused to split the assets up. In 1998 they reversed this and EA offered for the American assets, Westwood came as a part of this deal. Westwood never had any financial difficulties, it was just a case of a massive company buying out the stock of a smaller one.
Ah, so the popular story regarding financial troubles was all false?
At least it was just part of the normal life and death cycle of businesses, then. _________________ ... QUICK_EDIT
Anyway, Virgin Interactive sold themselves to EA. Westwood was bought up after they had financial problems...
Wrong, the company who owned Virgin Interactive wanted to sell it for nearly a year, but refused to split the assets up. In 1998 they reversed this and EA offered for the American assets, Westwood came as a part of this deal. Westwood never had any financial difficulties, it was just a case of a massive company buying out the stock of a smaller one.
Ah, so the popular story regarding financial troubles was all false?
At least it was just part of the normal life and death cycle of businesses, then.
Westwood were incredibly successful, there's the possibility that the company that owned Virgin interactive was having difficulties, hence the need to offload VI stocks, but WW themselves were in perfectly good health, making millions of pounds a year, i think it was something like $4 million in the first half of 1998 (from the C&C franchise) just before the take-over, and this off games 2-3 years old (C&C1 & RA1). QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject:
You people do realise Westwood was bought for over $100 million? They weren't in financial difficulties, they were one of the most lucrative games studios in the world when they were acquired by EA. In fact, I think that the deal for WW was a record at the time. _________________
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The SCUD Storm part was pretty funny. Considering how EA took over WW that quickly...
@weeaboo part:
Oops, I was browsing through that article and my mind wasn't in the right place when I replied, I meant fanatic/ism >.< _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
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