Huh... I wonder how this'll affect EA.

Yeah. There're a lot of good people working for EA, it's just the upper echelons who give them all a bad name.

As much as I dislike EA I don't really want a foreign publisher taking more money out of the United States. Nexon does not sound much better and they would be taking those IP's and taking the money out of our country when people purchase their future games. Not something that would make a noticeable impact on our economy, however it is almost always best to buy locally in the long run for our economy.

Then again I want to see EA crash and burn too...dammit decisions decisions...

Wait Nexon buying EA .-. I think they got the rumour wrong more likely would be EA buying Nexon right ?

Well considering Nexon is a PC exclusive publisher and EA is across all platform on various titles that would be more likely unless PC alone bring in more revenue then all consoles combined. Even I cannot state such PC siginicant certainly not top.

Here's a slightly more reputable article about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/04/26/ea-spikes-on-report-japans-nexon-makes-takeover-bid/

EA have done the same thing to companies in other countries: remember that for many of us, EA is that foreign publisher, and one that doesn't always seem very sympathetic towards us "foreign types".

That is better source then IGN but still a PC only publisher buying a AAA multiplatform publisher is as likely as Mojang buying Bethesda. Granted Nexon has a large Asian audience but is it really that strong? I doubt it of course BlizzardActivision would jump at the chance to buy out their top competitor and take BF and Frostbyte engine under their wing.

I hope Nexon buys EA and shuts it down

its what EA has been doing to pretty much every company they've bought (they killed Pandemic Studios and i hate them for that and they made Brutal Legend turn out half assed due to early release )

If that happens true poetic justice will have happened.

Now you know how everyone who isn't American feels about the fast food industry, the movie industry, the gaming industry, etc., etc., etc., etc.

If this in any way leads to the death of Mirror's Edge 2 I'll be in full support of carpet bombing Korea.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/04/26/ea-spikes-on-report-japans-nexon-makes-takeover-bid/
http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1223835p1.html
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/04/26/japanese-firm-nexon-offers-to-buy-ea/

post all the articles (and get me one of those "All the Things" images to boot )

Nope Mirror's Edge 2 under Nexon will be the following

Free to play ME2 :"WOOO"

TO jump pay $90 :"WTF"

To run pay $15 :"HOLY $*&("

To walk pay $5: "wow.."

To see your character and change their skins select it from out skin directoy each one cost $5

Thank you for playing this korean Pay to win title. "q_q"

EA has really made some bad choices and I do agree that this will be a form of poetic justice if they are indeed bought out. However, it does make me question what will happen to companies such as Bioware that are under their..."control" at the moment.

I find the F2P thing quite concerning at times since income must be earned to compensate people that develop and produce titles. You don't just sink in $25 to 50 mil into a game expecting not to get some form of return on it. Same thing goes for MMO games where you can expect costs to be 4x that of a single player game.

F2P is usually a misnomer when referring to online games. I'm pretty sure Nexon makes more money off their "free to play" games than they would if it had a subscription instead.

That is true and been proven through various studies that people will pay ~$22 monthly for a F2P in the cash shops of that game vs a Sub base that is $15 a month. So a cash shop is more profitable then a sub base in the long run. However regarding to nexon they give reasons why F2P isn't liked and usually seen as a bad thing in MMOs or games in general there is a very fine line between cash shop and Pay to Win and Convenience items. For example if your selling a very over powered skill in a cash shop it is pay to win compared to a related topic of EA selling unlock packs for weapons kits in Battlefield 3 that is not pay to win. Usually they are mixed and usually results int he mind set everything is bad in F2P games various people stated GW2 falls into this category convenience is not pay to win when the player still needs to know how to play. It is pay to win when the player does not need to and the item(s) does it automatically. Which is found in Nexus games. Which is why I hope EA will not be bought by such.

Sounds unlikely but very interesting.

Who knows what'll come out of NexonEABioware?

HURRAY!!!! I mean... Hope everything works out for the better.

It's more likely a lie EA invented to boost their stocks.In saying that it would be nice if Nexon did buy it and hung all the current EA top brass.

I had no idea Nexon was big enough to even consider doing something like this. I didn't think Maplestory and Combat Arms, which I believe are still their flagship games, were all that lucrative. Sure, the obscene micro-transactions, but they're just that - micro. Where is this money coming from?

That I can understand, but there is a fine line between a F2P outline and gouging your customers for $$$. Know that SoE switched EQ2 to a F2P mechanic with players that play for free being unable to obtain higher tier items to the point they are forbidden. Sounds like if a chest drops that has a fabled item in it *if that's top tier still* then a F2P person can't loot it.

When you have heaps of lemmings doing these "micro-transactions"it soon adds up.Just look at Mass Effect 3 people lap those spectra packs up,I would say a good portion of people took the micro-transaction route.

"Only 5 dollars? Sure i can afford that. just like i did the last 20 times"