Those "private investors" suck. Just in case you were curious

First EA killed all the good developers/publishers like Codemasters.. Maxis. Visceral. Criterion. Black Box.

ANd now they will be sold to a private investors..? What the hack.. EA is dead to me already.

They're being sold to the Saudis. The same guys who hacked up a journalist so they will continue the EA tradition of hacking up developers, only now 100% more physically.

Serious question. What difference does this make? They’re already a shit corporate soulless entity, how much worse can things get? I already avoid 99% of their games

Just kill off the company already. They have only put out absolute shit these last 2 decades. Just kill it and do us all a favour.

Everyone be buying yo dataaaaaaaaa, no longer a struggle to hide illegal activity because we privateeeeee. It’s a new song I’m working on.

Good thing I kicked EA to the curb 10 years as go...

I still don't understand why this sub has a veiney bad dragon thing for its image.

Hear me out:

• Split Fiction and everything from Hazelight is fantastic.

…That’s about it.

I guess churning stuff out like F1 or Sims DLC every year isn’t particularly offensive, and they didn’t mess up ME LE too bad. And they have a history of some neat originals.

What I’m saying is EA isn’t really the mega villain anymore. And maybe the longer-term horizon allowed by going private will help?

Makes me even more nervous for the future of the Mass Effect franchise

Wishing this frees up the Mirrors Edge IP for a sequel... Knowing that won't happen... Sad face....

Weird how whenever you see the words “Jared Kushner”, the word “Saudi” invariably appears in the same sentence.

They finally figured out a way to make their games even worse!

Enshittification will continue until companies collapse.

“How could EA possibly get worse?”

Like this.

Are they selling it one microtransaction at a time?

Every time private equity buys out a public company, they saddle it with debt, gut its intellectual properties, turn its products and services to shit then close up shop for good.

Given that EA has already managed 3/4 of those things on its own, I wonder how much this will actually change.

Private equity is the death knell to any brand. For example Joanne's was sold to private equity. I've worked for companies owned by private equity, they are there to extract every last cent for themselves while the brand is whittled away. Any cent that would be invested is instead given to the investors so they can buy new Audis and boats.

I'm not saying EA didn't deserve it, but this is for sure the end of EA as we've ever known it

I'd say good riddance, but with Jared Kushner involved, I can't imagine any good will become of it.

With Trump suggesting he'll be able to control TikTok's algorithm, crackdown on political opponents (starting with Comey and Willis), along with getting television networks to bend the knee about what gets aired... this could be just another avenue of controlling the media

My EA internship at one of their Canadian offices was the best experience I've had in the gaming industry. I feel for my colleagues there, no doubt the work culture is about to get real toxic for them.