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EA, Eidos Have No Plans for Xbox Live

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-connected dept.

News for nerds writes "Eidos, maker of Tomb Raider, said it doesn't plan to make games for Xbox Live because Microsoft controls the system and manages subscriptions itself, leaving no incentive for a publisher to collaborate. Sony's approach is to sell just the equipment needed to connect to other's services, such as those run by game makers. Electronics Arts, which makes titles such as 2002 FIFA World Cup and NHL 2003 for the Xbox console, is also reluctant to join Microsoft's system, while supporting GameCube."

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  1. Yeah, and Alderan had no plans to blow up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until the evil Empire made it. Give it time, give it time...

  2. Without EA and Eidos by j-b0y · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's more Xbox Living Dead than Xbox Live

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    Please remain calm, there is no reason to pani... wait, where are you all going?
  3. I know what Microsoft forgot to do... by AtomicX · · Score: 1, Funny

    they evidently haven't got enough EA staff on their payroll after they took all those senators on board.

  4. EA can go screw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    EA wouldn't know a valid online gameplan if it bit them in the ass. These are the people who killed "Ultima Online 2" because they were desperately afraid of hurting the original UO, their accidental cash-cow. These are the people that have driven countless quality game studios into the ground. They managed to bungle their license-to-print-money, "The Sims Online", which even Sierra probably couldn't have fucked up.

    Paraphasing: "To calculate how much cock EA sucks, you'd need one of those hilarious web page counters that keeps spinning and flipping out of control with the numbers appearing to race upward to infinity but really only getting to 999999 before resetting to 000000."

    Meanwhile, Microsoft is by all reports the most developer-friendly game publisher out there, and yet gets no loving from anyone because they're The Evil Empire. Bah.

    1. Re:EA can go screw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm not giving them any loving because I'm afraid they might try to give me some loving right back. From behind.

  5. TR not on the xbox? damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...I had heard the renderer's jiggle function was excellent.

  6. Disappointing by akpcep · · Score: 4, Funny

    With no Lara Croft on my eggbox, I shall have to go and find REAL women to look at. Woe is me.

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    Hmmm.
  7. Re:It's a catch-22... by dabootsie · · Score: 2, Funny

    if you'll be so kind as to excuse the dot-bomb era expression

    I can excuse "killer-ap" (it's "killer app", by the way), but I can't excuse your use of the expression "dot-bomb era". Don't ever use it again.

  8. Re:Sony turns out to be more expensive by tmark · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think Microsoft has it right here.

    Are you sure you're at the right website ?