Would You Rather ... Takeover Edition

by Xav de Matos { Mar 12th 2008 at 11:45AM }

In our continuing effort to bring you fresh and interesting content, X3F presents Would You Rather ... a weekly feature that asks you the hard questions. The point? If you had to choose one or the other, which would you go for?

Consolidation. The word sounds so ... dirty. Yet, companies seem to be piling on top of each other to stay afloat as rising costs of game creation threaten to ruin the little guys. Sometimes, like in the case of this week's WUR, larger companies decide they should absorb their competition having some gamers scream MONOPOLY! Speaking of Monopoly, this week's WUR is all about EA and their recent bids to gobble up competitors Ubisoft and Take Two Interactive. Well X3F Army, which would you rather join Team EA?

Feel free to share the reasons for your vote in the comments. We'll share the results of the poll during the next edition of Would You Rather ... which hits X3F every Wednesday.

Last weeks WUR results can be find after the jump ... and bid!

Wow. Last week's poll wasn't even a contest. It reminds us of when kids pick Dan in Street Fighter. Yeah, it's funny and all but come on - this isn't even proving anything! Looks like nearly 60% of voters are looking forward to Street Fighter IV over the HD Remix. Let's just hope they both work online.

Sure, we want it all ... but that isn't the point of WUR, we're all about the tough questions here folks! Or was it nonsense? We could never remember.

Tags: 2k, 2k-games, ea, electronic-arts, take-two, ubisoft, wur

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

GeOpBoB @ Mar 12th 2008 11:53AM

EA should adquire Take 2, in that way they can make MVP again because MLB sucks big time!

DaCallMe @ Mar 12th 2008 11:51AM

I just want EA to go in the corner and die they are messing up the video game industry!!!!

xenocidic @ Mar 12th 2008 11:53AM

hrm, a lesser of two evils WYR..............

tough one... I went for Take Two because they only have one IP I care about and you can't do much to mess up GTA.

Pandy @ Mar 12th 2008 11:56AM

Yes where is the I HATE EA AND THEY SHOULD DIE option?

Boff @ Mar 12th 2008 12:00PM

That's a toughie but I went with Take Two in the end. What's the worst EA can do? Release the same GTA each year but with an 'updated' soundtrack?

Arno @ Mar 12th 2008 12:01PM

Wow that is a grim outlook either way. EA needs to be put under the microscope by the government for anti competitive practices.

Murcury @ Mar 12th 2008 12:05PM

That was a hard one....
I would rather have Ubi & T2 "consolidate"
than see either of them be gobbled up by
King EA!

Phil J W @ Mar 12th 2008 1:18PM

lol i guess news is slow in XBOX world eh?

Josh @ Mar 12th 2008 12:12PM

Take over Ubi...EA shouldn't have their hands in the GTA series.

xtremesniper @ Mar 12th 2008 12:16PM

I chose Take 2 because Ubisoft has more IPs that I care about, and wouldn't want EA getting its hands on.

Kizzle @ Mar 12th 2008 12:19PM

Ubi. As much as it would suck, I think T2 being assimilated would be worse for the industry. No sports games competition, and the biggest franchise in gaming would go to the company that is best at sucking the life out of anything good.

Etchasketchist @ Mar 12th 2008 12:34PM

EA can have Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy. Just don't mess with my NBA 2K and my Bioshock and my Grand Theft Auto.

Boff @ Mar 12th 2008 12:37PM

I read a good article about EA the other week. It was one of their guys talking about how they're trying to change the image gamers have of them just churning out meaningless sequels every year and how they are stifling innovation.

Can't find it anywhere now! It was either Eurogamer or 1Up I'm sure of it! Or maybe I just dreamt it and it wasn't about EA at all.

Deck @ Mar 12th 2008 12:42PM

I don't want them to take over either of them! Both of those options would suck! EA shouldn't be allowed to buy anymore companies! MONOPOLY!

If I had to choose...Ubi. The fact of losing all 2K sports to the stupid EA sports games is pathetic. Plus with Bioshock and GTA, T2 should stay right where they are. But then again, so should Ubi. I say no to both!

ryan @ Mar 12th 2008 12:59PM

LOL @ almost 50/50. i voted for T2

ZEBRA NINER @ Mar 12th 2008 12:56PM

Yeah, I've heard that Take Two's sports games would benefit from a merger with EA. I only really care about GTA. Ubisoft on the other hand has made some of my favorite games.

However, I don't think it will really matter because I'm sure that EA won't screw with any new companies they buy. I'm sure they've learned from the mistakes in the past.

SugarDaddy @ Mar 12th 2008 1:05PM

I can't believe so many people chose Take Two. Take 2 has the most controversial games. Letting EA put their corporate censors to work on Take 2 games (Bioshock, GTA, Manhunt, Bully, etc) would be severely damaging to one of the only game companies that actually doesn't bend to political will when they make their games.

GTA would suck so bad if it was censored.

Philip @ Mar 12th 2008 1:50PM

I would vote Take-2 but I would die before I saw EA owning the Civilization IP. But Ubisoft has lots of good IPs that I would hate to see in EA's hands.

Cal @ Mar 12th 2008 1:56PM

Neither.

Doug @ Mar 12th 2008 2:14PM

EA really needs to keep their hands off of these other companies. Game innovation at EA seems to be virtually nonexistent, but these other two companies seem to be churning out some original and fun titles from time to time.

svenhoek @ Mar 12th 2008 2:28PM

Yeah lets have EA take over T2. This way we can get GTAIV every year from now until the end of eternity. *rolls eyes*

Fuck EA, everyone great once in a while they will come out with something decent, or hell even good, but then they take that game and add some new textures over it and make us pay $60 for it. Thats why they are starting to fall off, HARD. I foresee in the next year or two EA's fall from grace, and when that happens they just wont have the money to keep shelling out for all these shitty sequels. Thats ok though, Activision will take up that mantel with gusto.

Brett S @ Mar 12th 2008 2:47PM

I would hate for EA to take over Take Two because I do not want EA messing with Take Two's IPs. Also Ubisoft could use a little better direction and creativity. Its a no brainer to me.

Urza @ Mar 12th 2008 3:03PM

Ubisoft has too many good shooter franchises that EA would just turn into cereal. GTA and such I could care less about, let EA run TakeTwo's games instead.

Xav de Matos @ Mar 12th 2008 3:12PM

@Phil J W: This is a weekly feature. Welcome to X3F buddy!

ccc @ Mar 12th 2008 4:16PM

Again a vote I can not partake in.

EDW @ Mar 12th 2008 4:27PM

EA taking over T2 would suck...but it would surely be better than EA taking over Ubisoft. after all, Ubisoft has been pumping out some really great and original games lately like Assassin's Creed and publishing some of the more obscure Japanese titles in America (Enchanted Arms and No More Heroes, for example.) i wouldn't want EA stifling that creativity.

SporadiK @ Mar 12th 2008 4:58PM

I don't know what I would do if EA took over T2, there goes my NBA 2K games which are amazing unlike the arcade feeling, made for dumb people unrealistic NBA live that nobody i've ever known buys since the dreamcast came out, I really hope they leave T2 alone. Other than Skate and maybe NHL EA sucks and shouldn't kill the competition to progress their world takeover plot, Its bad enough when the 360 dropped a lot of us bought madden (which wasn't very good) because we had no choice in american football games and the very next year I know a few people like myself who bought and sold the piece of crap less then 2 weeks later

sifer2400 @ Mar 12th 2008 5:23PM

take T2 cuz EA will mess up Gears of war and i cant have that

Ray @ Mar 12th 2008 5:40PM

T2....maybe they can teach EA how to make a good NFL/NCAAF game

autilian @ Mar 12th 2008 8:01PM

I agree that EA like to churn titles out like the games industry has only days to live but to say that they don't make anything good are bring anything to the industry is just a plain lie.

To say that they aren't innovative or make new games is also a lie.

If you just look at some of the games that they have made or are assosiated with devloped or been responsible for its publishing you might think differnt.

They have in there first try made a skating game better then tony hawk.
Fifa 08 is one of the best in the series
Burnout Paradise also one of the best driving games to have been released in awhile.
The simpsons probably the best tv series to game conversion.
There associated crysis the most high-tek game made .
Lastly for innovation you just need to look at spore which will be released this year.

All in all they like to make lots of copy's of there games but they still make good games if you just look at what they have done.