The End of Civilization as we Know it?

by Alphaville Herald on 08/11/05 at 8:03 am

AP Newswires and Forbes are reporting that Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto) has purchased Firaxis games (Civilization). The imagination goes wild.

3 Responses to “The End of Civilization as we Know it?”

Marsellus Wallace

Nov 8th, 2005

Is this the next Electronic Arts? You know Jeff Brown is probably pissed he didn’t think of buying that company first lol. It seems though that Firaxis has lost some of it’s luster over the years and the Civiliation franchise was dwindling. Any word on why they made this business decision? I have a theory that some companies buy other companies just to end the games they produce as the the buying company may be coming out with a similar competing product. Just a thought.

Marsellus Wallace
No witty comment today
Mr Fairplay/One Song

Nov 8th, 2005

The End of Civilization as we know it? You’re probably right.

This will most likely be a very positive thing for the Civilization series, myself I’ve been a Civilization fan since the first version which was release god knows how many years ago, I was a young kid then I think.

Civilization II remained most Civ fans favourite of the series until 4 days ago when Civ IV was finaly released. Only problem with Civ IV at the moment is the faulty multiplayer Peer 2 Peer netcode that is currently affecting all users. Hopefully thanks to this take over by Take 2 Interactive which, may I say a very respectable gaming giant; should change things for the better.
We can hope that they will change their strategy and allow Civ IV players to subscribe for a small monthly fee, and give us the option to play with dedicated Civ IV servers.

So thank you for the misleading story title Uri. lol
RB

Nov 8th, 2005

JB needs to get punk’d. lol.

- RB.