Oh god... The sheer idea of EA taking over Freelancer makes me want to gnaw on the edge of my desk in anger.
On the bright side, we'd probably get more Freelancer clones and sequels than we could handle, cookie-cuttered out with a few more tedious features every year (as with EA sports. You can only reinvent football so many different ways on a single console..)
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."