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Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund

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Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund

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I never thought I'd see the day where PapEA itself would be the one being put in the mass grave along with all the studios it killed.
Say goodbye to any of their games you liked because this will be torn apart and will be making shit propaganda games
20 billion in debt will tear the company apart
- My hope is that they'll sell off all the smaller IPs to make money fast, hopefully setting some of the ones I like free.
  
  Independent Hazelight please. I don't want to give money to Trumpists or Oil-men.
  I can't think of anyone else they own (and haven't shut down) that I still give a fuck about. Maybe Criterion still have potential.
- Was EA even doing anything with any of the actually good IPs they had? I haven't heard of anything particularly interesting coming from them in a while now (ie. decades).
  
  I mean, they published Split Fiction and Tales of Kenzera this year and their Star Wars games were more than decent (let's hear it for the atrociously underrated X-Wing revival they made with Squadrons). They also published the C&C Remaster that same year, which I feel doesn't get enough credit despite getting a lot of credit. Probably one of the best examples of one of those in recent memory.
  Let's not be disingenuous, none of that is their bread and butter, but it's not like they were entirely dormant.
- whait… there are people (besides the copy-paste sport game people) that liked ea games?
  
  They bought companies people loved. Sims is huge.
- 🏴‍☠️
Cool, hope they get treated just as nicely as all those studios EA acquired throughout the years.
FML. Well I was gonna make one purchase next month, either BF6 or Ghosts Of Yotei. Guess it made up my mind for me.
- hmmm, should i support the studio capitulating to a fascist regime? Or should I support the studio being bought by murderous religious fundamentalists?
  
  Well, I think it's too nice to call them facists only. It's literally a dictatorship.
I'm alright with EA disappearing, it's about time.
And one of the other investors is Jared Kushner
so Saudi Arabia bought fifa, basically, with a free add on of some other sports games and a ton of dead ip that they hold.
All the sports games are basically gacha games now anyway with just yearly roster updates. And yet they get tons of whales dropping 10k+. Such a scam. Figures the saudi royals and kushner would be all about that unethical bullshit
Didn't they just do the opposite of this for TikTok?
- China isn't Saudi Arabia, and Trump collective media control efforts hasn't reached gaming yet. Tiktok was China ownership reduction from 40-20 percent, while China still retains algorithm control. This one is a buy.
  It's an opposite movement of ownership between countries, yes, but every different overall and in the details.
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