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December 7, 2009 - It's been nearly ten years since Pandemic Studios' first game, but instead we find ourselves at a funeral and not an anniversary party. Once a proudly independent studio, they recently found themselves being downsized by a large parent company in the wake of trying economic times. Although EA's past closings of once-independent companies like Westwood and Origin have generated a lot of negative feelings over the years, it's hard not to understand why EA chose Pandemic. They had struggled to adapt to the realities of being such a large team married to a single publisher. Pandemic was never a very consistent studio, and like all of us, they made a few mistakes. However, there were flashes of brilliance that made it hard to see them go.