PopCap's new ownership raised a lot of interests in the gaming community but also raised lots of concerns about what will happen. So what will happen to PopCap? Nothing drastic says PopCap's public relations VP, Gary Chouteau. He continues to state:
"The things that we've done with Blizzard in paying tribute to each other's games, there's really not been any money involved in those things,"
"There isn't really a formal business relationship between Blizzard and PopCap,"
"I think there will be changes in terms of expanding our reach,"
"Exactly how our games might appear in the Origin service or on Pogo.com or other parts of EA's vast empire are still to be determined, but those are certainly things we look at."
Mr. Chouteau doesn't think that there will be any changes to any PopCap games, but he believes that PopCap games will be more likely to be released on consoles quickly due to EA's help. He continues to say:
"We're about as slow as it gets," Chouteau said about going multiplatform. "I don't think that changes materially. We devote a fraction of our overall development resources to new IP. We have more resources devoted to taking existing IP and bringing it to new platforms."
This move might actually be a good thing, that is if EA doesn't ruin something, but at the same time it can be a really good move; more PopCap games will be released and they won't just be mobile device only. Let's just hope this all goes well.
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