I hope EA doesn't go down, my bro may work there in the future. Already has his first contact in that company.

vivendi own blizzard as well as sierra, so if they shut one down - the publisher of half life and the ones behind the new larry game (dunno what's going to happen to that now) - don't assume bliz is safe too. damn money hungry corporations

No, I think Blizzard is safe. They've been around for awhile, created three extremely popular gaming series (Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo) and now they are releasing a MMORPG. And Blizzard is known for its quality games. It will be around for awhile. You know they are serious when they have plans for an MMO. That takes a seriously large amount of money and planning.

Plus, they are franchising out in all directions. Books, board games, and so on. Those have been fairly successful too.

And yes, Blizzard is safe. Why? That is because they are the ones making money. Vivendi is well, doing not-so-great financially, and Bliz is only one of the companies which help them on that category. Now if ever Vivendi falls once and for all, a lot of companies are willing to save Blizzard. So no problem there ;)

They haven't closed all sierra stuff then, I just got a news letter of them in my mail.

Yea, i missed games like "The Realm" From seirra, that was what basicly brought me into the fun RPG gameing industry :(