Google To Buy Valve? > Oh great!

Oh great!

Google is good. Stop your whining. Would you rather Yahoo or EA buy Valve????

reply to rudnicke
interesting. the platform only took off due to the popularity of counterstrike back then. I used it. I hated it. I will likely never purchase another game from that system again. Too many problems with not being able to play in a LAN setting if there was no internet.

However, I do wonder why they didn't approach the Penny Arcade online distribution platform. It's named something with "green" in the title.
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reply to DaMaGeINC
if thats the choice we have, EA or google... hope to god for google.

EA sucks.

reply to DaMaGeINC
I would rather have Yahoo then Google, but EA? EA = NOWAY

Yahoo over Google?????? WHAT!!!!!!!!!! Please tell me you are not going to have any kids!

lol

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reply to rudnicke
I would also like to go with google.

I just hope that they don't change anything and keep everything the way it is.
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reply to Paulg
I guess I like Command and Conquer to much. I also seem to remember some other EA games I liked (to old to remember). So I guess I disagree that EA sucks.

reply to drew
Me too. I like Half-Life 2. I put up with Steam because I was forced too. I hate it, and it has kept me from following Half-Life into many of its subsequent additions and enhancements. I love the idea of something to prevent hacking so we can have a fair game. But I can't stand all the junk with Steam.

Plus I paid for my game and I still have to watch Steam adds for more games. Its offensive.

I can't stand installers putting icons on my desktop without asking, I certainly can't stand the way Steam injects itself into my experience.
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reply to viperlmw
I like command and conquer also. Every game i have purchased so far has not had any drm. Hopefully Red Alert 3 will be the same way... And i don't think Google buying valve is a bad thing at all.

reply to DaMaGeINC
Google isn't always good, and they can always get worse. Nobody starts out intending to be a monopoly that behaves badly.

reply to inurenegade
Nope, your SCREWED. EA is polluting Red Alert 3 with the same DRM garbage BS that they put into Spore. I was in the beta, and as soon as I heard that, I uninstalled it. I'm done with EA's crap.

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reply to DaMaGeINC
Why does anyone have to buy them? If they are successful why can't they just continue on their own?

reply to anonnnnnn
EA has been playing relatively nicely recently. EA also doesn't have a record of your whole life down to what commercial you get up to drop a deuce while you watch Lost. I'd rather have EA.

Either way, I seriously doubt this is at all true at this point. It would be more believable if it were Microsoft.

reply to rudnicke
as long as the ads being added into games fit the theme and feel of the game and are not obtrusive (no ads should alter the game play to make it easier or harder and no gigantic ads that cover walls), i probably wouldn't mind too much. i think it would be pretty hard to add ads to the hl2 universe or tf2 without destroying the feel, but CS seems more plausible. instead of generic computers, why not a computer by a real brand? would gun manufactures pay to push their guns into CS? instead of generic bottles and cans, why not coke or bud or smirnoff?

could be pretty interesting if the ads get hacked or adult orientated ads get mixed in, could lead for some interesting reactions.

reply to viperlmw
most of the better C&C games came out when EA wasn't the franchise owner.

reply to Combat Chuck
Microsoft had their chance and passed on them. So did Yahoo.