1. Frickin' EA

Posted at 5:37PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Elliot J

2. Crap, now we are gonna have more shitty games from EA

Posted at 5:42PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jesus was here

3. This news leaves me non-plussed

Posted at 5:42PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Hockle

4. Bust out your bibles, qurans, torahs, buddha bellies because it's time to start praying EA doesn't fuck their shit up.

Posted at 5:42PM on Oct 11th 2007 by sisedi

5. Bloody EA. Die already. Stick to making bad Simpson's games, i truly hope they let bioware run on it's own and there's very little difference otherwise it's going to go to crap.

Posted at 5:43PM on Oct 11th 2007 by SadisticHam

6. I just threw out in my mouth. Thankfully, MS owns the Mass Effect IP.

Posted at 5:44PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jonah Falcon

7. It's a trap!!!

Like Jonah said, luckily MS owns the IP of Mass Effect and they can't really do much besides profit from owning Bioware(hopefully).

Posted at 5:54PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Yuccadude

8. Why does EA feel the need to gobble up all these companies? It's really starting to piss me off.

Posted at 5:55PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jared

9. Bioware? No. Just... no. C'mon EA, Really? Aren't you content ruining sports franchises, racing games, and FPS's? Now you have to scoop up my favorite RPG maker too?

/sigh

Resistance is futile, it would seem.

Posted at 5:56PM on Oct 11th 2007 by itsburnsie

10. It means that Mass Effect 2 & 3 will have hot cars, bikini-clad aliens and a dope techno soundtrack! woooot!

Posted at 6:09PM on Oct 11th 2007 by intRvenous

11. At ^

You mean EA Traxxxxxxxxx!

The next mass effect will have crappy tunes from crapy indie bands with one crappy tune from a crappy big name band. That is the amazing EA Traxxxxx formula.

Posted at 6:35PM on Oct 11th 2007 by mirage

12. EA owns Mass Effect now actually...so this is bad news.

Posted at 6:44PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Xion

13. Can you people be more ignorant. EA is a publisher, not a developer. They don't create the games, period. All they do is publish them and slap a big EA sticker on it. All of the "shitty" games you buy are from shitty dev teams.

Posted at 6:47PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Token White Guy

14. oh well, at least Mass Effect 1 will be great. and then Mass Effect 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will come out yearly and suck balls. EA sucks.

Posted at 6:49PM on Oct 11th 2007 by a.j.

15. @13, but their lack of attention to things like..oh i don't know, online problems with like every sports game they "slap their name on" is their fault. fuck em.

Posted at 6:49PM on Oct 11th 2007 by a.j.

16. ^ Bzzzt wrong. EA does develop its own games and then publish them.

Posted at 7:18PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Michael

17. :'( can't we get EA busted for monopolization or something? They're my least favourite publisher, They have so many decent IP's but they always find a way to screw them up... :'(

They act just like MS in the PC world, gobble up all competition and smaller devs, then make them mundane...

I'm boycotting them, but still have to buy Skate and Burnout, it's just like "I boycott MS but still need windows and office" :'(

Posted at 7:54PM on Oct 11th 2007 by stirlo

18. love it.

Posted at 8:26PM on Oct 11th 2007 by jimy

19. EA console in 2010?!!?!

Posted at 8:37PM on Oct 11th 2007 by ChewyDogg

20. Mass Effect is published by Microsoft Game Studios. So while EA "owns" the IP, Mass Effect is going to be published by Microsoft for the 3 games.

Look up the Wiki.

Posted at 9:29PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Jonah Falcon