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He'll get an offer he can't refuse from EA who will then ruin the game. Happened before, remember Popcap?


Popcap was always a for profit startup, no? Or at least it was for the majority of its time before acquisition, I’d think. Their games were all micro iAP freemium sort of stuff I think.


Nope. I paid once for Plants vs Zombies 1 and played it as much as i liked. Then the EA acquisition came and they went IAP and i got a code to continue to play without IAPs. But it only worked on one of my iOS devices not all, like the initial purchase from independent PopCap.


Ah wow. That’s awful.




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