У новій публікації в блозі на своєму офіційному веб-сайті EA оголосила про повне поглинання (або асиміляцію) Respawn Entertainment. Іншими словами, придбання Respawn Entertainment було завершено, тобто студія тепер офіційно перебуває під егідою Electronic Arts.
Respawn Entertainment is the one behind the triple-A shooter franchise consisting of Titanfall та Titanfall 2. The first game received a lot of flak for its lack of content and story mode, however the team managed to win gamers over with the second iteration by providing an actual story mode and then some.
Although everything seemed like it was going in Respawn Entertainment’s favor, the company’s publisher, EA, had released Titanfall 2 right in between the releases of Службовий обов'язок: Нескінченна війна та Battlefield 1 назад в 2016.
A lot of fans said that this drowned out the “well made” shooter’s sales potential, because it was going against two power house titles: почуття обов'язку та Battlefield.
Later on, EA had announced that it would soon acquire the dev team on Листопад 9-й. Fast forward to Грудень 1st and the move has now been complete or finalized, meaning that EA now officially owns Respawn Entertainment.
Here’s the letter disclosing the aforesaid act:
“On November 9, 2017 we announced an agreement to acquire Respawn Entertainment, LLC, one of the leading independent game development studio and creators of AAA shooter and action games including the critically-acclaimed Titanfall™ франшиза. Today, December 1, 2017, we have completed the acquisition of Respawn on the terms previously disclosed.
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Now that EA has full control over the Titanfall franchise, there’s no telling what will come of the series. On one side of the spectrum we could see EA take out Respawn Entertainment quickly or we could see the dev team hang in there for a while before realizing the memento mori that everything great or small must someday die… that is, while being under EA.
