I set EA to Ignore on Steam two years ago. Ubisoft too.

They don't even make anything anymore. Just sports games, mobile games and Sims expansions.

Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.

Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.

EA 0.00052 seconds after hearing Nintendo is the worst game company…

Instead of lootboxes, you cut open journalists to get your prizes.

Maybe they'll remove the gambling. Probably not but it would be good if they did.

It would be interesting if EA pulled away from lootboxes for their owner's ideological reasons.

Except ea lost the FIFA licence in 2023.

Why do people always connect saudi to Islam when it's pretty obvious no muslim other than Saudis likes the Saudi family as they are infamous for their practises. While even a slight hint at israel and Judaism or rich jewish assholes with judaism would get you down voted to the ground even when it's an appropriate callout.

Edit: I am not challenging the comment, i am just curious as to why. One reason I could think of is that jews are considered an ethnic group so they may not be religious at all but that could apply to any religion no?

It doesn't exactly scream "Shariah Compliant", no.

The only part of the religion that matters is the part that lets them treat women as sex slaves anyways.

Nah the Saudis are desperate to diversify. And they have the money to do it. I know it's leveraged but they'll see it through.

If we're lucky, they'll do a Toys-R-Us and make EA fund it's own buyout.

Haven't bought an EA game ever. I think I'm already ahead of the curve XD

Let's say gamers do that. The average EA/"Fifa" buyer will see the box art with Messi/Whoever and buy the fucking game.

How many gamers bought Veilguard?

EDIT: I just checked and it looks like the only game EA released since Veilguard that was targeting the general gaming audience (i.e. wasn't a sports game, a Sims expansion or a mobile game) was Split Fiction. Battlefield 6 will be out in a couple of weeks so we'll see how that does.

At this point, I see pirating The Sims as a moral imperative. There’s no reason the full game should be ~$1500.

Basically Tesla, oof

It’s the workers who pay the price for the greed of the CEOs, shareholders, and the new owners.

It saves so much time for him to be buying a failed company. It cuts out all the leg work he has to do.

If a company bought EA it would make sense if they were buying it for the IP. Someone who actually knows how to run a business could probably turn it around, but why is he buying it does he have another game studio that I'm not aware of?

There is, but do you know who Jared Kushner is?

Hop on the finals, my man, it's made by ex-DICE employees.

It's only about 20% debt.

The post replies also provide more context as someone that doesnt understand the legal lingo of the official article

To add to this, Jason Schreier is a well known, and well sourced, gaming journalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Schreier

But you aren't wrong. There's no way to know that via Bluesky unless you've happen to read his stuff from Bloomberg and before. It's almost like Twitter is a terrible format for news or something...

EA has been dead to me since the mid 2000's when they turned Battlefield 2, which I had purchased at full price, into a severely unbalanced Pay-To-Win game.

It only went downhill since then.

As a big Star Wars fan this hurts though. The Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor games where my favorite Star Wars content after Andor since Disney took over. I was looking forward to the last game in the trilogy. But I don't want these people to get any money and I'm also afraid that the project will be affected anyways :/