Ea Acquires Tolkien Literary Rights
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<div class="IPBDescription">when will it end</div> Original article: <a href='http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=818' target='_blank'>http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=818</a>
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This Electronic Arts press release announces that the publisher has received the literary rights to author J.R.R. Tolkien's works, including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Previously EA only had the rights to the Peter Jackson movie adaptations of the trilogy but this new move will allow the publisher to explore areas that the movie trilogy would not allow them to do. Two upcoming games will be the first to use this new agreement; a PSP tactical strategy game The Lord of the Rings Tactics and the now officially revealed sequel to their PC RTS game Battle For Middle Earth. Here is a snip about that latter game:
The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II is the next PC installment to EA's blockbuster The Lord of the Rings series of video games. The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Real-time Strategy (RTS) game from EA Los Angeles, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth. The newest The Lord of the Rings PC title will introduce players to depths of the fiction never before explored by EA, in accordance with an agreement with The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises that grants EA the rights to develop games based on the books, in addition to a separate agreement that allows for games based on the New Line films. Expanding on The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth, the new RTS game will allow players to engage in heated battles with Elven and Dwarven armies plus heroes and creatures that have never been seen in a The Lord of the Rings film.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
All I have to say is Good Lord when will they stop?
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This Electronic Arts press release announces that the publisher has received the literary rights to author J.R.R. Tolkien's works, including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Previously EA only had the rights to the Peter Jackson movie adaptations of the trilogy but this new move will allow the publisher to explore areas that the movie trilogy would not allow them to do. Two upcoming games will be the first to use this new agreement; a PSP tactical strategy game The Lord of the Rings Tactics and the now officially revealed sequel to their PC RTS game Battle For Middle Earth. Here is a snip about that latter game:
The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II is the next PC installment to EA's blockbuster The Lord of the Rings series of video games. The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Real-time Strategy (RTS) game from EA Los Angeles, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth. The newest The Lord of the Rings PC title will introduce players to depths of the fiction never before explored by EA, in accordance with an agreement with The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises that grants EA the rights to develop games based on the books, in addition to a separate agreement that allows for games based on the New Line films. Expanding on The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth, the new RTS game will allow players to engage in heated battles with Elven and Dwarven armies plus heroes and creatures that have never been seen in a The Lord of the Rings film.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
All I have to say is Good Lord when will they stop?
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When will this stop. Man, who even let EA BUY the rights?
And every time you have to search, a pop up will appear and it will say "Challenge everything".
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You sir have stabbed me.
youve got it all wrong.. google is going to make its own game company... and it wont even have to buy ea.. it will simply be that much better that ea will either
1) off google their company and $100000000
or
2) theyll try really hard to stay in competition and fail horribly..
GOOGLE IS OUR SAVIOR DONT YOU SEE?
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(Stolen from the GIF Wars thread)
And they will cause The Ring to do this:
<img src='http://images8.fotki.com/v145/photos/2/23376/93737/mordor-vi.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
End of story.
They better do, at the speed they pump them out, there's occasionally one that's good.
Shut up. Stop bashing EA because it's "in" and they're big. It's like getting angry at Starbucks' for being successful. <span style='color:white'>Be nice.</span>
Please do share how you figure this?
There are good reasons to harbor a dislike against EA. Their employment policy (First one up to claim that it's the employees fault to allow this to happen gets a free whack with the reality bat. Believe it or not, but some people have to rely on a steady income to survive.). Their policy regarding licensed titles (seen in its most extreme form in the sports niché). Their retailer policies. Their QA and, related to this, their patch and support policy. Should I go on?
Not everything EA does is evil, true. But there's a ton of really, really bad decisions by that company.
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As an analogon, Tolkien refused outright to have Disney produce a movie based on the Hobbit.
Then again it's just as if they're buying things for the sake of buying them, just to keep others out of that particular region of the market, which is sort of annoying.