I felt that when sentences like "the worst thing to ever happen ever" come into play, we were into joking territory. But hey, do feel welcome to enlighten me on how wrong I am by making a comparison of 2 bigger companies buying smaller ones and doing their best to squeeze the smaller one out.

I already explained it you in the post you are quoting.

Yeah, neither do I. I just felt it was a good way to lift the mood a bit, obviously I was wrong and shouldn't have mentioned it.

Yeah but Joe links his youtube vids to channel awesome, as if he is a third party host. He should be using Blip vids instead of youtube.

I know, that's what I said.

I know you said not continue the EA, but I am just giving my answer the question you asked me:

EA buying Origin was worse, at least Origin did not end with a monumentally dissipointing game (Ultima 9) and a MMORPG whose popularity was short lived (Only 2 years until Everquest kicked in)

What do you mean? Ultima Online still lives and is one of the longest living MMO games out there.

Sometimes I wonder, if it's best to get a disappointing game than no game at all. In one you get to play at least something, even if that's utter crap; in the other you don't get to play at all but the game will be forever be untainted on your head. Every time I see the trailer of DK3 I feel that way.

But yeah this a discussion for a different day.

It lasted long in terms of existance, but not so much in terms of popularity.


I mean ever since Everquest relased Ultima Online became irrelevant, not only that asshole players abusing the games rules like the massive player killing, even if you just made a new character, was unnacceptable and Origin did not do a good job at maintaing the problem, instead of making some sort of developer run law enforcement (which would make sense regarding the kind of game it was) they went the lazy route from changing the color of the names of people (Blue means innocent, Grey means criminal, Red means Murderer) to destroying the old game world and replacing it with a new onem but removed the killing player system.
Whats DK3?

Well, at least it's not shut down after a year of unpopularity and people who still enjoy it can play it.

Yeah! I never got to play tabula rasa!

*sigh* DK3...

Don't forget those emulators that play the game in its original form.

Dungeon Keeper 3. It was cancelled.

Oh Dungeon Keeper 3, you know I still have not purchased a Bullfrog game (only Populous 1, but never got around to playing it)