Comments on: EA Acquires Shawn Fanning’s Rupture, Says The LA Times A Month After We Did

By: | Wipley, Social Gaming Platform

| Wipley, Social Gaming Platform — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:39:07 +0000

[...] No es la primera vez que EA entra en el terreno de las redes sociales, ya que en 2008 compró Rupture, una red social de videojuegos. [...]

By: GAMING « Daily Marauder

GAMING « Daily Marauder — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:00:45 +0000

[...] startup Rupture for around $30 million. Techcrunch reported this deal a month ago. (http://www.tech...imes-a-month-af... [...]

By: Alice Spencer

Alice Spencer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:26:18 +0000

Your the in the know!

By: Derek A

Derek A — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:35:00 +0000

It’s a good move on EA’s part. The publisher has no real foothold in the online MMO mammoth. But titles like War Hammer which is coming out in a few months, Spore (mentioned above), and other online focused franchises like Battlefield and C&C – they should get plenty of legs out of the technology.

By: sara

sara — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:22:32 +0000

This story is not Michael bragging, it is illustrating how outdated LAT and other print publications are.
You can’t rely on newspapers for your news or you will be well behind what is actually happening at any given time. Plus the lack of attribution is ridiculous and not at all the way things should be done.

By: Wolke Snow

Wolke Snow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Arrington, so you scored with a **prediction**.

Good for you: you’re not doing well against SAI and VentureBeat in HubDub.

A good guess doesn’t make a story fact-based news. It used to be called “rumor”, but I guess that word is not in your vocabulary…

By: Narcissism

Narcissism — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:33:07 +0000

Stop promoting yourself arrington, no one cares if you did it earlier.

By: Joseph Menn

Joseph Menn — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:29:20 +0000

If I were in the plagiarism business, I would have lifted “third time’s a charm.” That was a much better line.

By: Heheh

Heheh — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0000

@ Dan —

Well, yeah… Ego stroking and blogging kinda go hand-in-hand. However the LAT(e) had the balls to claim authority on the story, and commit some borderline plagiarism in the process.

By: Heheh

Heheh — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Apparently, the LAT(e) thinks that something isn’t true, until THEY report it… Whenever it is that they get around to it… Next month’s headline “Barak Obama Clinches Nomination”

By: Hendrik Mans

Hendrik Mans — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:08:04 +0000

As a reminder, here’s a feed for TechCrunch minus Michael’s constant self-appreciation and Twitter bashing:

http://icanhaz....tcsansarrington

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:06:30 +0000

I think these kinds of posts are beneath the standards of your site personally. “Mine is bigger than yours” isn’t very important in the grand scheme of things. Why is this worth posting about to your readers except to triumph your superiority? It’s ego stroking not journalism. You guys are better than that.

By: gregory

gregory — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:28:45 +0000

@16, nothing there worth promoting, i checked .. maybe some more thought and a tighter vision?

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By: steve jenings

steve jenings — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:06:01 +0000

Are TechCrunch making a bid for Oracle?

By: petnos

petnos — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:42:33 +0000

You are the best. And you are my man.

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:16:47 +0000

“When the widely read blog TechCrunch wrote two weeks ago…”

Original story went up on May 8th. That was a long two weeks.

By: David Cole

David Cole — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:38:35 +0000

This is why i read your site and NOT the LA Times!! They are so yesterday!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:32:51 +0000

@9, perhaps Techcrunch is so influential, that the mere mention of an outcome actually causes it to happen.

With that in mind, MA, say I won ONE BILLION DOLLARS (said with Dr. Evil impersonation).

By: Curious Mind

Curious Mind — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:23:02 +0000

@Justin – Possible, but looking at the space, GameStrata (www.gamestrata.com), Raptr (www.raptr.com) and a few other sites would seem to hold some water here as better platforms for a social portal with stat tracking.

Rupture did an overhaul in Dec/Jan to be more of a news feed service for game events. Didn’t do much for traffic. I hope there was a lot more behind the scenes that was available to the public.

By: rokhayakebe

rokhayakebe — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:47:46 +0000

Are they accusing Techcrunch of being “fortunetellers”?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:47:01 +0000

EA doesn’t have much of an MMO library. They have a couple (Spore isn’t an MMO), but the small presence they have in the MMO space in no way justifies this acquisition of tech. It’s pretty clear they’re planning something broader. Most likely something like a social portal/stat tracking service for ALL EA titles. Not unlike what Microsoft has done with Xbox.com.

By: !!

!! — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:45:49 +0000

To be fair, the deal wasn’t closed when you posted it!

By: Curious Mind

Curious Mind — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:39:24 +0000

Nice of TC to crack the story early. These other outlets merely seem to have received the press release and as the LA Times did – incorporated more of an article because of Fanning’s name.

Similar in vein to Rupture itself and this deal with EA. Its an app to track your WoW character’s stats. It will fit nicely with EA’s MMO portfolio once the Rupture/EA team build it out. Warhammer and Spore come to mind. However, look at the technology and look at the actual traffic of Rupture – some one or some people at EA are hiding under a wool blanket.

Congrats to Fanning & Ron – may we see you in another VW commercial, this time together!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:39:15 +0000

Thanks Mike for pointing out again how bad the LA times is.

I don’t think many people would mind if latimes.com redirected to news.google.com