Well that’s the end of EA. The owners will tear it apart and bleed it dry.

I don't care what they do. Even if I hadn't already been boycotting EA for 10+ years, I'd never install Saudi-owned ring-0 "anticheat" software on any of my computers.

Well my days is not buying EA products are certainly coming to a middle.

Shit company gets worse

A lot of people are glancing over the fact that now a country is running this Video Game company. I'm not betting that the Saudis will: Open up old IPs, take care of labor costs, respect the players, not install spyware onto customer's machines and report their party affiliation or any government secrets stored on said machine.

If you didn't trust EA being run by a private company then I bet you won't trust EA being ran by a government.

Anyone who did not see this coming is an idiot.

EA is... in a loooot of debt lol. Thats why they needed a buy out.

The liquidation shall continue until moral stakeholder wealth improves

Well, there goes the last remnant of possibility for a dragon age or mass effect revival.

Replaying Dishonored 2, still mad about Arkane.

It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.

Do you know, why EA is the worst company in the whole US of A? It's because Ubisoft is in France.

I don’t understand why you’d buy something and then essentially destroy what it was. Everyone sees you doing this, are they actually going to make money?

I would say "never has there been a more moral case for pirating the sh*t out of everything this company makes", since they always exploit and lay off their workers after projects are done, shut down studios, etc...

...but most of their stuff is recycled sports drek, so don't even pirate it. Just ignore it, and tell everyone you know how horrible EA is and has always been, and who its new owners are. Hopefully they'll never buy their crap again either.

But the CEO’s job will be okay right?

I can't wait to play Battlefield 7: Saudi Victory Over The Jews.

fml

They paid 53 bil for something that has only 300 mil /year in profits?

A 200 year ROI (interest on the 20 bil loan for the leveraged buyout that ea itself will need to pay) doesn't seems too bad

Imagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games.

Judging by MBS's steam account, the next Battlefield is going to be an extraction shooter about the coalition of the willing securing pipelines and putting out oil field fires. Also Tehran doesn't get nuked in the game, it got nuked 20 years ago, and this is framed as a Bad Thing With A Silver Lining. The Line is your primary hub city and your ground vehicles are things like solar powered Abrams and cybertruck but good

Leveraged buyouts should be illegal

CEO Andrew Wilson is set for a massive payday. The company’s last SEC filing before going private pointed to a $77 million payout for the last fiscal year, double the number that was previously reported.

One of the finer aspects of unfettered capitalism.

So, destroy its game making capabilities and just make money for the next 20 years from of microtransaction on existing content.

Kinda of a natural progression of AAA game publishers given the way things are nowadays.

Bloodbath... Saudi Arabia

How literally are we talking here?

Gaming layoffs are now on track to eclipse 2024 and 2025 combined.

Mass Effect team must be shitting bricks.

Sell 700 one million dollar skins

And? What fucks are there left to give about a publically malicious/murderous government buying a publically malicious company which publically destroys their creatives ability to stay alive in this capitalist shitscape?

I want the heart and soul of those studios (the creatives) to create a tsunami of indie studios to revive the long lost connection between the gamers and the makers.

We have to support indie devs if we want gaming to be better for all involved.

Aaaand there's the other shoe