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Electronic Arts Up For Sale?

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-a-check? dept.

John Wagger writes "One of the world's largest gaming publishers and developers Electronic Arts has quietly put itself up for sale. While there have already been talks with private equity companies, the talks have not resulted in anything concrete. One of the sources is saying that EA would do the deal for $20 per share (currently at $14.02). Over the past year, EA's stock price has fallen 37 percent. Like other major game publishers, EA has been struggling against growing trend of social and mobile gaming."

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  1. Reasons for trouble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would like to imagine that any financial problems EA is seeing are also a result of their shockingly poor handling of developers, unethical treatment of customers, misguided use of DRM, and famously incompetent management.

  2. Re:Ding dong! by SomePgmr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Zynga isn't doing so well lately, either.

  3. Re:Stuggling versus mediocrity actually by NatasRevol · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not that hard to name them, is it?

    http://www.ea.com/executives

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  4. Re:Stuggling versus mediocrity actually by Molt · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's wrong in that it's not Zero Punctuation saying this. Zero Punctuation is a series of comedy games review videos by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, and which ended up being bought into The Escapist website to produce a weekly series. This though is a different Escapist column, Jimquisition with Jim Sterling. A very different and series to ZP.

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