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Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout (www.wsj.com)

submitted 11 months ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 14 points 11 months ago (16 children)

I wonder what EA IPs have just died right now?

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

mass effect? honestly that's all I can think of off the top of my head. They'll start pumping out more Battlefields, more sports, more money into UFC games and I would bet good money they'll try to buy the license for WWE games from 2k. Saudi's love their WWE.

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[–] Sas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Sims surely will either be cut or completely overhauled. It's way too queer for them.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago*

Isn't it just like free/cheap revenue now that they have no plans to make future Sims games anyway? If they really dislike it I am sure they could find a buyer for it readily.

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[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Was mass effect not already dead? Last game was andromeda and people didn’t like it and no news on another one.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 point 11 months ago

they announced a new one awhile back but I don't think it's going to go anywhere. but yeah Andromedia was bad, I couldn't even make it past the very first planet.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago*

They announced a new one a few years ago alongside the Legendary Edition remaster of the original trilogy, but I don't think we've heard anything about it since the announcement teaser.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The "strike" series? Oh wait that was already dead.

Command and conq--- no no no already dormant.

Oh! How about Road Rash---

Yeah nothing of value is going to be lost

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

They really desecrated Dungeon Keeper. IIRC it was so filled up with mobile game, microtransaction garbage you couldn't even dig blocks of dirt more than once a day without buying "gems".

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago*

Luckily we have War for the Overworld to pick up where they failed.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 11 months ago

SSX series—? Err

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

Oh no... not my sports IPs.

Anyway...

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[–] misk@piefed.social [S] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It would make sense to sell every IP they can piecemeal to get some return on this investment.

If I had to guess then Saudi (or MBS) wanted EA FC which can now return to being EA FIFA now with extra Ronaldo. Saudi have enough influence over FIFA via PIF to make this happen.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I could buy Road Rash?

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I’ll throw a few bucks your way if you promise to make a new road rash

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago

Maybe just check out Road Redemption?

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[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago

Need For Speed for being anti authority? Honestly, I have been missing a new NFS game. The last one came out in 2022, and the longest wait between them since 1994 was 3 years… Definitely didn’t play them all, but the last two, Heat and Unbound, were surprisingly good.

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