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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:09PM (Unverified) said

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Wow that's scary.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 5:46PM dan4prez312 said

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That's a big chunk of change for a fan site
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 5:51PM Xav de Matos said

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@Dan_C: It's actually a network of 11 GTA based websites. I edited that into the article.

Apologizes for the confusion.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 5:57PM (Unverified) said

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Smells bogus to me.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 5:58PM robmv said

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They are covering their backs, they are trying to be ready for when EA transform the GTA franchise to garbage, they will have the list of all possible suspects when something bad happens to EA headquarters, jaja
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:19PM (Unverified) said

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EA is a dangerous company I believe. I won't buy GTA IV if they get their grubby little hands on it. They will just find some way to exploit it. (Micro-Transactions for sure.)
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:23PM In A World said

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EA only has a month left to coerce stockholders and get all the fake parody ads in GTA4 changed to real ads for Doritos and Madden. Can they pull it off? I dunno about you all, but my finger is hovering over the "boycott" button, ready to strike!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:25PM mcwattersm said

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THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:33PM (Unverified) said

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I bet its april fools joke in progress.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:35PM JeffTXD said

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I will continue to boycott EA.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:39PM Espiox said

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Wow, this is so obviously an April Fools joke it's unbelievable.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:55PM (Unverified) said

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Even if EA did end up getting Take Two, its not going to effect GTA 4. Since the game is coming out in about a month, they wouldnt have time to do anything anyways since its going to be in manufacturing soon if not already.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 7:04PM (Unverified) said

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lol thats right Espiox! I think TT leaked this too. there is no paperwork showing EA looking to buy take Two! lmao! this is bogus! I can't wait for GTA Version of NHL 08. Sidney Crosby Stealing Cars and Smoking Marijuana.. or how bout "EATT" Electronic Arts Take Two Make a Hard Core Dog Fighting Game named after good 'ole boy Mike Vick. You'll be able to go be a ball hogging QB out on the field on Sunday and come home and put a chihuahua up against a Bull dog Monday night. that would be an awesome Superstar mode! Bringing it to their homes! LMAO!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 7:27PM Knight Marquise said

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If EA succeeds in their hostile takeover of Take Two....I'll have to cancel my pre-order of GTA IV. Sad, so sad...
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 7:28PM (Unverified) said

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God I hate EA.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 7:47PM dibs oddjob said

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Will I have to buy MS points to post in the forum?
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 7:58PM xenocidic said

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T2 shareholders would have to be stupid to accept the current offer. The shares are going to skyrocket in the coming months.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 8:15PM dirt junkie said

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if this is true and please god tell me its not, this is a sad day for gaming!

I HATE EA SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 10:06PM (Unverified) said

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This is a good thing.Then the ps3 rockstar exclusives will be shit.

Sell Take Two Sell Please
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 11:13PM Xav de Matos said

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It might be an April Fool's joke. But it would be a sad thing.

Why? April Fools jokes happen in April, and if the GTANet people aren't smart enough to come up with something to trick people on the right day, injecting false news is a poor approach to gaining respectable publicity.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2008 11:47PM (Unverified) said

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an april fools joke is perfect given the popularity of GTA4 and the current hot issue of the hostile takeover bid of Take Two. The GTA forums are getting tons of hits and free publicity on top of the added hits from just the game coming out soon.

Sounds like it's a win-win either way...if it is a joke. I don't see EA buying them up before they get the IP, then paste their logo on the site like this. That's way too cokcy for even EA.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 12:15AM Exo said

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GTA IV comes out in 1 month. if they purchased take two this second, it would not change the contents of GTA IV at all.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 4:33AM (Unverified) said

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Why is everyone so upset about EA trying to buy T2? Hell, if you had billions of dollars, wouldn't you want to buy Rockstar?

Yeah, pretty sure you would.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 4:33AM (Unverified) said

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Sidebar, that GTA Forum has over 183 thousand members. That's bigger than Guam and almost bigger than Samoa. O_O;
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 5:27AM (Unverified) said

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Despite everything EA has said, I think Hauser had better make backup plans to create a new brand because it looks like the big pig is not about to let Rockstar walk away as planned.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 5:27AM (Unverified) said

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It's false. Tank, the owner of gtanet, bought sims3.com and used gtanet to build pagerank. a new sims game was announced, traffic was driven, 'speculation' begun on the gtaforums.com site (it's users are morons), and the admins "played along". It's a prank, I have this on the word of the girl that administrator "illspirit" thinks is his girlfriend because he's a desperate loser.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 5:28AM (Unverified) said

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its* users, sorry, I looked at the site long enough to lose a few IQ points.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 10:15AM (Unverified) said

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I think this is false now as well. I just went back to the forums to see what was going on and the EA logo has been taken down. Hmmmmmm.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2008 5:42PM (Unverified) said

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Folks seem to be a bit bitter around here. I'll touch on the issue of the prank specifically, mainly because I was one of the few moderators who came up with the original concept.

It's an annual tradition at GTANet to have some sort of "prank" on/around April the 1st. Sometimes we hit early, sometimes we hit late. In response to the ongoing issue of EA attempting to take over Take Two, we thought it'd be amusing to suggest to our members that our forums had been "bought out" by Electronic Arts.

Unfortunately, some members of the community took this too far, and attempted to spread the rumours beyond the confines of GTAForums.

I would like to apologize to anyone who was gullible enough to buy into this charade.

Cheers.
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Posted: Mar 28th 2008 5:00PM (Unverified) said

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Damn right. dertyjerzian represents. April Fools, Suckassss! Mwuhhahahahaha
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