And yeah, all you have to do is look at Notch and Mojang (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/725727.html) as an example of how just because a company used to be cool at some point in the past, it doesn't mean that company will forever remain cool.
Or... you could also just look at all the companies that did sell out to EA, such as BioWare (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/tag/bioware) and the rest (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/495575.html). The first one or two companies that sold out to EA might deserve a pass, but after three or more additional companies got bought by EA and then almost immediately started going to shit afterward (and they all start going to shit, always, without exception), after that, the responsibility starts to shift more to the owners of companies to know beforehand that selling their companies out to EA is a really terrible idea. They'd have to be utterly blind, deaf, and stupid not to know that, by this point. Unless, of course, said owners of said companies actually no longer give a single shit about the companies themselves and just want to take the money and run, as seems to have been the case with a lot of the more recent sell outs, such as the BioWare doctors (though they, of course, blamed it on fans (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/602143.html), and not on EA, that they couldn't hack it anymore). In that case, well... they were probably already on the verge of going to complete shit even without EA's help.
As such, if CDPR (or any other company, for that matter) were to sell out to EA in the future, it would be pretty much entirely on their heads as to the outcome, because they can't not know that selling to EA is an extremely shitty idea. EA themselves, at this point, just can't seem to do any better if they tried. Sure, they've claimed in the past to want to try to be better, and a lot of people even swallow that lie, hook, line, and sinker, and yet, they're still horrid shit. It's like EA simply doesn't know how to not be horrid shit, even if they wanted to not be horrid shit (and I am not at all convinced that EA gives even the remotest of fucks as to whether they're horrid shit, really, just so long as enough people keep sucking on that sewer pipe to which the horrid shit that they spew out is connected... and plenty enough people still do exactly that, of course).
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Or... you could also just look at all the companies that did sell out to EA, such as BioWare (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/tag/bioware) and the rest (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/495575.html). The first one or two companies that sold out to EA might deserve a pass, but after three or more additional companies got bought by EA and then almost immediately started going to shit afterward (and they all start going to shit, always, without exception), after that, the responsibility starts to shift more to the owners of companies to know beforehand that selling their companies out to EA is a really terrible idea. They'd have to be utterly blind, deaf, and stupid not to know that, by this point. Unless, of course, said owners of said companies actually no longer give a single shit about the companies themselves and just want to take the money and run, as seems to have been the case with a lot of the more recent sell outs, such as the BioWare doctors (though they, of course, blamed it on fans (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/602143.html), and not on EA, that they couldn't hack it anymore). In that case, well... they were probably already on the verge of going to complete shit even without EA's help.
As such, if CDPR (or any other company, for that matter) were to sell out to EA in the future, it would be pretty much entirely on their heads as to the outcome, because they can't not know that selling to EA is an extremely shitty idea. EA themselves, at this point, just can't seem to do any better if they tried. Sure, they've claimed in the past to want to try to be better, and a lot of people even swallow that lie, hook, line, and sinker, and yet, they're still horrid shit. It's like EA simply doesn't know how to not be horrid shit, even if they wanted to not be horrid shit (and I am not at all convinced that EA gives even the remotest of fucks as to whether they're horrid shit, really, just so long as enough people keep sucking on that sewer pipe to which the horrid shit that they spew out is connected... and plenty enough people still do exactly that, of course).