Electronic Arts Up For Sale?

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It has been reported by the New York Post that Electronic Arts is exploring the possibility of a sale as the company struggles to grow its business amid competition from free online gaming sites.

The paper reported EA has been approached by private-equity giants KKR and Providence Equity Partners about striking a potential deal. Representatives for EA haven’t been immediately available for comment.

EA, the company behind such popular video games series as “FIFA” and “Madden NFL” had a market value of $4.17 billion as of Wednesday’s close. The paper quotes a source familiar with the company saying EA would do a deal at $20 a share.

EA has reported disappointing results in recent periods as a slump in sales of console videogames has hurt margins. This isn’t helped by the increased competition it faces from free-access online games.

The company is looking to transform its business model to better compete against rivals such as Zynga.

http://blog.fancensus.com/ea-up-for-sale/

Guys, we should all chip in like $20 and buy EA.

Jack would take that cash anyway like a j00

Franko, if you're not gonna contribute some dinero, then shuddup.

teh j00 is trying to jack our shit!

You guys won't get jack shit from me.

can they just die already?

If no one would buy Activision, no one is going to buy EA.

Mecha wrote:

You guys won't get jack shit from me.

It's you that's starting to sound like teh j00 now.

nah mayne, I would never scam people.

Oh the sweet delicious irony.

I'm chipping in $150 if anyone is interested.

Let's start a game.

I call it If G7 ran EA:

I'll start

If G7 ran EA:

TRF would handle buisiness side of things

Jubjub and Alan would run Bioware

Franko and Mike would be in charge of Origin and DICE

Sexton_Flashheart wrote:

Between this and Sony utterly bleeding cash and the saturation of modern style FPS's is anyone else getting a 1983 gaming crash vibe?

Same here. I've called this since my rant on COD and Gears.

Sheogorath wrote:

Chobo wrote:

Let's start a game.

I call it If G7 ran EA:

I'll start

If G7 ran EA:

TRF would handle buisiness side of things

Jubjub and Noel would run Bioware

Franko and Mike would be in charge of Origin and DICE

Sexton_Flashheart wrote:

Between this and Sony utterly bleeding cash and the saturation of modern style FPS's is anyone else getting a 1983 gaming crash vibe?

Same here. I've called this since my rant on COD and Gears.

FIXED.
Alan is no longer part of our holy forum.

Nope. NOW IT'S FIXED.

i should be in charge of DICE





it will be as realistic as ARMA when i get through with it

We'd open up a UK studio and have all the UK G7 member's in charge.

Online passes, Day 1 DLC, and On-disk DLC will be gone.

Try to make Origin compete with Steam and remove some BS terms of service.