Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout
Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout
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Ok, wasn't going to buy EA games anyway
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Well, there goes the performative progressive values.
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Now we'll get those actionable regressive values! FUCK YEAH!
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EA about to be more dead and soulless than it already is.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the reason they bought EA was because there's some die-hard Saudi zoomer who loves games, has a butt load of money, and wants to make great games. Maybe they do a 180° on some of their best IPs and lower the price to make gaming more accessible to more people. It's what I would have done if I had more money than I knew what to do with! A girl can dream. <3 <3
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Plausible except the part about good, affordable games
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Yeah. If there's a Saudi that is rich enough to buy EA on a whim, he'd definitely think $1000 for a game is very cheap and don't understand what pricing issue exists.
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Right? Capitalism gotta capitalize on all that capital, sitting around in our bank accounts, when it could be sitting around in THEIR bank accounts!
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That Saudi
ZoomerMilennial is actually MbS. He got rid of the wahhabists so he can nerd out more.
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I wonder what EA IPs have just died right now?
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mass effect? honestly that's all I can think of off the top of my head. They'll start pumping out more Battlefields, more sports, more money into UFC games and I would bet good money they'll try to buy the license for WWE games from 2k. Saudi's love their WWE.
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Oh no... not my sports IPs.
Anyway...
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It would make sense to sell every IP they can piecemeal to get some return on this investment.
If I had to guess then Saudi (or MBS) wanted EA FC which can now return to being EA FIFA now with extra Ronaldo. Saudi have enough influence over FIFA via PIF to make this happen.
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Need For Speed for being anti authority? Honestly, I have been missing a new NFS game. The last one came out in 2022, and the longest wait between them since 1994 was 3 years… Definitely didn’t play them all, but the last two, Heat and Unbound, were surprisingly good.
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Electronic Farts amirite
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I can only hope that they sell off Mass Effect to a better company, but I wont get my hopes up
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Wouldn't give up to much hope in either direction, cause of they do sell it only one of the existing bigger houses are going to be the only ones able to afford it. Although could you imagine a Larian mass effect?
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I would CREAM over a Larian Mass Effect
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100% they'll sell off the gay games
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Ohh do they wanna move their hq to Saudi and name it EA Nasir?
Racist against Babylonians tbh, Ea Nasir would never treat customers like EA does.
It's basically in Arabia if not specifically saud, who's an illegitimate conqueror. That gives you a surprising steam pipe Valve reference but that means they wouldn't do that.