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[–] 208 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh good, I can continue not buying EA games.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'd have to check but I think the only EA game I even care one iota about would be Dead Space. But I already got the remake for free on PS5 and I pretty highly doubt they'll remake the other two so.. I'm good

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  • [–] 68 points 11 months ago

    And the rest is Jared Kushner. Enjoy that shit sandwich.

    EA was already shit, but somehow they found bread made from shit and built a whole sandwich.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    EA games suck nowadays anyway; this was just a buyout for shareholders and founders.

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  • [+] 2 points 11 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn't you know?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago

    Didn’t need additional reasons to never buy EA garbage, but yeah sure ok.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago*

    Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just kept on a-diggin til they struck oil didn't they.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Dice - mirrors edge, battlefield

    Popcap - tons of mobile games

    Respawn - Alex legends, Titanfall (ex call of duty developers)

    Codemasters - lots of racing games

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    [–] 92 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    If you still buy EA games at this point you better not tell anyone because you’re a braindead fuckwit for sending Saudis your money

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏

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  • [–] 70 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Some people have no choice in what kind of car they can afford to drive.

    We all have a very easy choice when it comes to choosing your video games

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  • [+] -40 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    People commonly have a choice not to drive a car in the first place.

    Though cultural pressures, as well as some specific areas being genuinely hard to reach, pushes many people towards it anyway. But if you have a choice, choose public.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Have you seen North American public transportation?

    Yeah, I have a "choice", but it's 60-85 minutes on 3 busses or a 12 minute drive to get to and from work.

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  • [+] -21 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, North America and US specifically is one of these hard to reach places

    Also, 12 minutes drive is a biking distance - if you have any semblance of bike infrastructure, that is. Surprisingly though, even American cities have that sometimes.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    As much as I hate the ruling family of Saudi Arabia… get off it:

    https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/info-gallery/us-petroleum-use-domestic-supply-and-net-imports

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-much-crude-oil-does-us-import-by-country-2025-01-31/

    Your information is dated. We are net exporters of crude oil for the past 15-years with majority of import from Canada and Mexico

    But for what it’s worth - fully believe renewables are the way forward for geopolitical and ecological stability. This is the more important narrative

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

    Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago

    The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (3 children)
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    The buyout has effectively already gone through, and as the price has been decided, any money you give to them is directly going to saudi arabia, as they will get that new value.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago*

    I deleted my account, intentionally losing access to all my games. Fuck EA. I will not be associated with murders.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Does EA own any other companies/brands that we should be aware of?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Not a loss for me. I liked them when they were still good, on C64 and Amiga. But now? Good riddance. May the sheiks have fun with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I mean it's not like they can make it any worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oh great, so now even IF the Sims 5 comes out, I have a moral obligation not to buy it...

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Makes me wonder what the next Sims game will be like

    Like will women characters be able to leave the house unescorted?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    We are all children of jesus petro states.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    EA (Respawn) peaked at Titanfall 2 and hasn't released anything good since. I set them to Ignore on Steam a few years ago.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Effectively all it? That's 93.4%, that's more than 90%, and almost 95%, which is almost 100%, which would be all of it!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Yeah but it isn’t really redundant (even if it could have been worded better). Someone might believe that the other shareholders have some say in how the company operates when they won’t.

    So, as far as control over the company is concerned, the Saudis have 100% control even though they don’t have 100% of the shares.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    If you haven't noticed there's a lot of people out there are incredibly dumb, and don't understand basic math, let alone how a company like EA works.

    I can guarantee you that there are more dipshits out there than you'd think who would look at that number and say "well it's less than 100 percent, so they don't have total control, so what's the big deal?"

    Now as for whether any amount of clarification is enough to convince those idiots that that's not how things work, that's a fair question.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Gotta delete the account next.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    And the worst thing is, they probably still won't be as self-destructively greedy as they were before.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Good.

    I hope they fuck over workers and customers as hard as possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    What exactly about it is it you feel should be illegal?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (9 children)

    Foreign country buying a US corporation. Seems like their investment should be capped at like 15%

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    US companies by foreign companies all the time, look at the food and drink corporations.

    This is not a new or strange thing

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    It's definitely not new, but it's time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's a world economy. What are you, some sort of maga twit America first and only bullshit?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It's very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it's a "world economy" doesn't and shouldn't mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world's financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "Stop being such a fascist and let us do business with these fucking murderers"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I don't want them to buy it. But there isn't anything illegal with investors purchasing a company line this no matter where they are from. It's just business, it really doesn't matter who owns them, they suck no matter what 

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    I think its more there is a certain level of baseline public investment in most corporations and it seems dumb to maintain the fiction that people's livelihoods should be sold as a commodity, especially to a bunch of despots

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Except many foreign countries have stricter legal frameworks for corporations.

    The "corporations are people" legal fiction means they have rights here. Citizen's United has fucked this country in profoundly dumb ways.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    You seem to be under some misconception regarding who actually writes our laws. Hint: they're called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Bribery? They are buying a company. That's it. There isn't anything special about it. It's like any other company out there. 

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    And I was talking about the so-called legality of the situation. So, pretty clearly not referring to the headline...

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