 | EA Dissolving Distribution Partnerships? |
| Geoff - February 10th, 2010 at 3:00 pm - 52 views - 4 Comments |
Last week EA released their 2010 line-up, letting us know that things like Dead Space 2 and Dragon Age 2 were on their way. Conspicuously absent? Anything Rock Band and Left 4 Dead related.
We now know why. According to GameInformer the publisher – which has been struggling financially – will be moving away from distributing games that aren’t developed by studios under their umbrella. Ella, Ella. eh eh eh.
COO John Schappert put it in fancy pr-alese, "While we have great relationships with our partners, we are modeling a reduction in our distribution business as we concentrate on higher-margin EA-owned titles and digital initiative."
It all comes down to money. EA report more income on internally developed projects than publishing games for other developers such as Valve and MTV-owned Harmonix. What implications could this have? Does the recently announced Green Day Rock Band have a publisher? I certainly hope we’ll still see a Rock Band 3 at some point – and I’d be loathe to rely on Steam for Valve games.
Source : GameInformer
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The above list was chosen because I slapped the following tags onto this post
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February 10, 2010
4:22 pm
+1 to Geoffy Weoffy
February 10, 2010
4:24 pm
Geoffy Weoffy? :/
February 10, 2010
5:26 pm
Hey I can say what I want. I gave you a +1 for the umbrella joke dammit
February 11, 2010
11:49 am
Hormonix will get a publisher. Any company will be a fool not to have a quick money in the bag title on their hands