I remember when Skate 3 came out and people actually had positive opinions of EA and were excited about the games they made.

Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.

They always butchered games. What you're remembering are the games made by studios that EA purchased, made before they were gutted for IP.

Haven't bought an EA game since the SimCity 2013 reboot. They straight up lied about the nature of the game.

First they came for EA, and I said nothing, for I was not into FIFA.

I have zero interest in online live service games so largely the entire AAA output for the last 5 years I have no interest in.

That’s a bit extreme. Everything from Hazelight (It Takes Two, Split Fiction) is sublime, they still have Respawn making Star Wars games. They have Sims. And (outside sports games) they’ve dialed down the “MTX meme” they were a decade ago.

…I’m not saying they're good. But they’re nowhere near Activision-Blizzard enshittified, nor hurling towards it as fast as Xbox Studios and some other AAAs.

I'd rather have that than the IPs being used to promote and indoctrinate some religious bullshit.

When regular evil isn’t enough

Or just part of the destructible environment.

Suitcase item.

They might just sell the IP. I imagine they are mostly interested in the sports franchises.

I suspect that they'd be more hands off than you may expect (if they chose to keep that IP at all). The sovereign wealth fund is first and foremost interested in growing their investment value. And this has only been further cemented as MBS has continued to stripped wahabists of power to the point that they have almost no state involvement anymore.

Doesn't matter, other games will replace them. Like InZoi.

Same happened with Rollercoaster Tycoon (Planet Coaster), SimCity (Cities Skylines)

I've been hearing it's running out for over 30 years. Is it actually almost gone now?

Just untrue. Saudi has massive deposits of rare earth metals, copper, gold. They’ll be fine.

Agreed. I was already not buying EA games, so this doesn't change much at all.

Depending on the bylaws, articles, resolutions, agreements, and other organizational documents, 51% might not be enough to do anything.

I know at the very least 1 person who plays FIFA. I wouldn't say that I am friends with this person, quite the opposite. But he is a classmate of my friends so they are friends with him. Even they wonder why would he keep buying FIFA each year.

Bahahahahahahahahahahahshshaha

The golden goose they will stuff with micro transactions and glow in the dark neon bullshit faster than the sweaty chopper nerds can camp the enemy spawn.

Enjoy the last BF title while you can.

Pray for another battlebit to come out of it.