Enshitification intensifies.

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[–] 60 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I already committed to never giving EA money years ago but maybe this can get some more people in on that

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  • [–] 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "Enshitification Advances" was right there.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I'd be quite wary to associate myself with them ... this might sully the impeccable reputation of the House of Saud.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    ...and nothing of value was lost.

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    [–] 41 points 3 months ago

    Left out of the headline (but in the first paragraph) is that one of the investment firms is owned by Jared Kushner, Trump's SIL.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I can't boycott any harder you guys. It's been 10 years since I've bought an EA game!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    When EA Origin (the EA client) became mandated for EA games, I quit purchasing EA games entirely.

    No regrets. I avoided the entire lootbox thing.

    Now EA is under private equity, which means, I suspect, it'll soon go the way of Toys 'R Us and Radio Shack.

    Appropriate, given EA's long standing policy of buying up development companies and gutting them.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They want the exclusive sports licences.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Saudi obsession with acquiring anything related to sports is something to be studied.

    Nothing wrong with loving sports, it's the way they go about it that's offputting.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I assumed that they're buying things that some people like in the hopes that they'll glean some of that like for themselves.

    The Saudi family has long been a font of cruelty, ruthlessness and abuse of power, long before Mr. Bone Saw.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My Unintentional Boycott list is the envy of progressive nerds the world over.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Can't wait for the stoning DLC for the Sims (fnord)

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    [–] 34 points 3 months ago

    I didn't think I needed another reason to shun EA, but here we are.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I forgot about this.

    This makes me mad because I have a friend who has worked on Star Wars Zero Company, and that game looks cool. But then the dilemma of giving this company money to support my friend where some of that ends up in EA’s pocket…

    Maybe I should give him $20 for the effort.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hell, if it's about supporting your mate specifically, give them the money directly and pirate the game you want. More chance they'll see so much as a dime for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Buying the game and making it successful, wpuld get him fired not paid better, like any other dev team that recently dropped banger games.

    Every time a good game comes out, and it sells well, the dev team is laid off.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The sims community took the initial announcement and did some organizing around it. I haven't launched the game since. They've been doing freebies and giveaways to try and win people back and get them to play, and all I can think of is how the new owners imprison and beat their own family members. Not that EA was a great company to begin with, but this is just really sad to hear. At least it got me playing some of my backlog instead of their stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm so mad about it. I've been playing Sims since it first came out. I'm embarrassed to admit how much money I put into that game. As soon as the announcement that there was going to be a buy out, I stopped all purchases. But Iove the game. And I spent so much money on it. I'll probably continue to play what I have. 🫤

    That being said, I did buy Paralives and while it's not the same feels as Sims, it's close. I just need a better computer to play.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Sadly my offer of $100 for the NoX property was declined.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I wonder if sims 5 will remove gay marriage and gender fluidity 🫩

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Apex is one of the few FPS I can get into these days. Didn't like when they banned Linux, hackers are still everywhere. Any decent alternatives? Anyone tried r5?

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    [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well there goes my plans on playing any new mass effect game

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Archetype Studios, which is comprised of some of the Ex-Bioware developers that worked on Mass Effect are making the game "Exodus" coming out next year. I will pick that up and support a smaller studio instead. It might be a little rough around the edges since they don't have EA resources but it still seems to be sticking to the spirit of what made Mass Effect so good.

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