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Jack Thompson to help EA buy Take-Two?
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 3rd March 2008
Jack Thompson is pledging support to EA in their attempts to buy Take-Two.
EA is currently in the middle of trying to buy out business rival Take-Two, which publishes the Grand Theft Auto series that Jack Thompson has opposed so vehemently over the years.
Of course, EA isn't the only interested party - Activision too considered making an offer.
Currently, Take-Two is standing it's ground and refusing to bow down to any offers, but Jack Thompson is hoping to change all that - no doubt in an effort to stem the flow of GTA games at the source.
"I am delighted to work with Electronic Arts to evict the Zelnick Trojan Horse from within Take-Two’s corporate walls. In doing so, I can get the new Take-Two into the clear as to the trouble I and others can send its way...Zelnick is the source of trouble headed Take-Two’s way, not I, and EA can make the case, with my help, that such trouble can be avoided," said Thompson in a letter seen by GamePolitics.
EA and JT would make an unusual match as Thompson has in the past spoken out against games like The Sims 2 on the basis that they contain "full frontal nudity" (though this was blurred). However, Thompson has recently spoken in defense of other EA games such as Mass Effect, which actually did feature tastefully handled sex scenes - so maybe the burned bridge between the two has been mended?
Should EA take Jack Thompson up on his offer? How do you feel about Ea buying up Take-Two? Let us know in the forums.
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^ about sums it up.
Or we change all the hyperlinks with his name in to some pseudo-google page akin to the 'french military victories' lols.
It can be done! A concerted effort on behalf of all on the internet :p lol
How did the offers even come about? i don't remember Take Two actually being in any financial trouble... (unless thats the result of numerous lawsuits?)
maybe Jack's just playing nice in order to get on EA's legal team, since he's about to be pushed off the Florida bar?
EA should consider lowering the prices of their games instead of buying other companies, that would make people less angry at them.
I wasn't under the impression this is what EA intended. In fact, I think EA are doing it to take advantage of the 'sinful' ways of Take-Two's GTA franchise and to make loads and loads of $£ due to the hyped potential of GTA4.
And if that's the case, I wouldn't think EA would want to take aboard a nutjob like JT who might, and in all probabilty would, jeopardise their [EA's] financial gains on the GTA series & name.
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