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

If EA, having been purchased, is milked for cash, strip-mined for IP, and then unceremoniously abandoned, it will be very funny.

Yeah, exactly. Xbox too. They make EA look good.

IMO Ubisoft seems to have bottomed out, almost like EA has.

Crossing my fingers, my toes, and knocking on wood.

If this buyout goes through, plz plz plz plz leave Battlefield 6 alone. Its been over 10 years since a BF felt this fun.

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.

I could have sworn this one early mech game was made by EA (early/ mid 90s) Ultrabots in NA. Nope they just published it. I had a ton of fun with it but guess they mostly produced even if they owned the studio. Unsure in that case but we know how EA works. So appreciate you making me check that cause in my head they made some grear games I played not just published them. I’m sure their earlier days they must have but didn’t look.

If it’s over 51% it’s all of it for all practical reasons.

Don’t ever buy EA products again. No problem really.

I wonder what they’ll do with IPs like The Sims. I can’t imagine they’ll allow same-sex relationships, naturally, but I don’t think they’ll allow divorce, either. :S

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

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

Dead Space too. They had a solid run in the late 2000s/early 2010s before doubling down on shit.

people are buying EA games? Why tho?

I’ll never forgive them for killing the Dungeon Keeper franchise when they bought Bullfrog. That was such a great game. Even today, I still play the original DK which came out in the 90s.

Yea. There have been a few spiritual successors that are pretty good, but none match the raw… villainy? No crazy, hyperstylized parody of itself, just pure calm confidence from the narrator while you play the bad guys in an otherwise normal fantasy setting? It’s always great when a game just goes for it, and DK nailed it.

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

I played war for the overworld, but it wasn’t the same. Nothing can capture the magic of the actual games. The first one was the best, but dk2 was also decent

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

Why? Literally why would they give a shit? This only makes sense if you assume that they spent billions of dollars to export religious conservativism outside of Saudi Arabia. I dunno if you’ve noticed, but Saudi Arabia has been spending trillions of dollars to present a totally different, modern image to the world. The people spending the money don’t actually give a shit about Allah. They only care what other people will submit to in Allah’s name, and they know that’s not going to fly outside their borders.

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.