Electronic Arts Purchases PopCap, Jeff Green for $750 Million

This story amuses me greatly.

Wish you the very best, Jeff Green

Weren't Bioware 650 million? If I were them I would feel cheapened.

I wonder what kind of ridiculous DRM EA will impose on the PopCap games now. It seems like every EA game I buy now I have to register to my EA account and then sign into that when I want to play. Will they do this with PopCap games too? If I have to type yet another password in just to play Peggle it will seriously dampen my enjoyment of that game. (Although honestly, I may play Peggle a little too much anyway.)

This will make PopCap purchasing decisions decidedly more difficult.

@Cirdain: That is F'n hilarious! Good comment.

P.S. Love ya Jeff!

Huh, I hope they don't charge for Plants vs. Zombies 2 downloadable content.

This sucks, every time EA acquires a  company, quality always goes right down the tubes. One thing EA never seems to wrap their heads around is quality not quantity. And when they release one that I actually enjoy, they shut down the servers so I can no longer play online. They are getting to the point where they can just release total shit because they know people will buy it.

Oh, Jeff Green. Didn't you realize there was nowhere for you to run away?

Oh great will we expecting popcap games on the wonderful origin store now.

Poor Jeff, right back into hell.
 
Can't wait for his next bombcast guest appearance.

@Cirdain: That is F'n hilarious! Good comment.

P.S. Love ya Jeff!

we'll all be bought by ea some day

@Eujin said:

Best wishes to Jeff. Before Giantbomb existed, he was one of the sole providers of worthwhile podcast entertainment on the internet.

True that. GFWL was utter genius, and sorely missed. Bombcast does an admirable effort in its absence though.

As regards the takeover clearly EA really want that ‘Cudgel of Xanthor’ licence.

@Kadayi said:

@Eujin said:

Best wishes to Jeff. Before Giantbomb existed, he was one of the sole providers of worthwhile podcast entertainment on the internet.

True that. GFWL was utter genius, and sorely missed. Bombcast does an admirable effort in its absence though.

As regards the takeover clearly EA really want that ‘Cudgel of Xanthor’ licence.

You mean Games for Windows Magazine? aka Computer Gaming World? Then I completely agree, I still follow the Greenspeak blog.

Surely not that crappy Live thing, right?

Love all of you guys!  And I'll be happy to come back to the Bombcast whenever they're ready for me!
 
Thanks for the kind words and LOLZ at my expense.  :D
 
--Jeff

"And you can find all these great games and more on Origin.com" - future Jeff Green

Haha, so Jeff's technically back at EA then? That's hilarious.

Funny to see him in the news since I recently went back to relisten to CGW/GFW Radio from the first episode. Good stuff. That was a great podcast.

Love you, @JeffGreen ! I hope you enjoy your $750 million dollars. Spend it wisely.

If I was Mr. Green I would have held out for a billion, and then it would be off to France for early retirement.

Fuck.

Yay, now let's see it all go to shit

How long until Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz start advertising Playfish and EA's Facebook games? I wouldn't be surprised to see PopCap themed items in games like Pet Society either. Bejeweled diamond? Zuma frog? (Plants vs) Zombie doll? ;)