The Confrence Call

The press Conference Call regarding the EA/Pandemic purchase agreement has been held and it seems that it could be a sweet deal for EA and Pandemic. According to Gamasutra's coverage, EA has been eying Pandemic and Bioware for quite some time now.
John Riccitello who headed up VG Holdings (Elevation Partners) rejoined EA earlier this year as CEO stated that the deal was "a strategic move that speaks directly to quality, online, growth and new IP". That means that Pandemic will continue to develop new IP and ownership would be held by EA with exception of Destroy All Humans which is owned by THQ.
What is to gain by BioWare and Pandemic, "Riccitiello said that as independent developers, the two spent a lot of time courting independent publishers and negotiating deals, and EA would effectively simplify that process to zero, offering them the leverage of EA publishing which could extend the two studios into places they don't traditionally get, including online and in the mobile sphere."
It sounds like Pandemic will still be in the adventure game business and BioWare will still be the RPG masters, if it's not broken don't fix it.

Some EA stock would be nice and I will have to make sure I am in that bread line...