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EA Trying to Buy Ubisoft Shares

Posted by Zonk on from the step-one:-challenge-everything-step-two:-profit dept.

jujubees writes "What is going on with Electronic Arts these days? This morning it was revealed that EA is trying to acquire 19.9% of the Ubisoft shares owned by Dutch investment company Talpa Beheer B.V. If approved by the US Antitrust department, the buyout would instantly make EA the biggest shareholder, ahead of the Guillemot brothers. Whether this is a hostile takeover attempt is not clear at this point, no financial terms were disclosed." An anonymous reader also wrote in to mention a GamePro Editorial about the company, regarding its past as an honorable games-maker and its current reputation.

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  1. Re:Hostile by digitalsurgeon · · Score: -1, Troll

    how can u say that? EA is make good games and i think there is nothing wrong in expanding their business, I dont know of a single good game by Ubisoft, please somebody enlighten me now

  2. Retards by gumpish · · Score: -1, Troll

    Piss off. Retards are fair game at all times in all circumstances.

    Retards have nothing to offer society, except perhaps as manual laborers, but even then they could never be as effective as their non-retarded counterparts. Oh, they're also good for making fun of.

    'Tards should be aborted, executed, and otherwise forcibly removed from existence as soon upon detection as is feasible.

  3. Not trolling. by gumpish · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can assure you, it wasn't intended as a troll.

    'Tards should be destroyed.

  4. Are 'tards people? by gumpish · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hold as self evident that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Among them: life, liberty, and property.

    But what group of beings is denoted by "we"? How can a 'tard have the right to life if it has no hope of comprehending what life is?