It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
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If it’s over 51% it’s all of it for all practical reasons.
Agreed. I was already not buying EA games, so this doesn’t change much at all.
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I remember when Skate 3 came out and people actually had positive opinions of EA and were excited about the games they made.
Dead Space too. They had a solid run in the late 2000s/early 2010s before doubling down on shit.
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It’s going to be such a hack job with this takeover.
people are buying EA games? Why tho?
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They always butchered games. What you’re remembering are the games made by studios that EA purchased, made before they were gutted for IP.
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.
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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.
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Its shockingly sad how what EA was back in the early 90s to what it is now.
Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.
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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.
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
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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
They might just sell the IP. I imagine they are mostly interested in the sports franchises.
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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
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.
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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 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.
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Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.
Not to mention prominently featuring transgender developers – in the 80s!
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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.
Narrated by Tony Jay, the voice of Megabyte! Thurl Ravencroft tier, for sure.
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First they came for EA, and I said nothing, for I was not into FIFA.
First they came for EA, and I said hey, you want some Ubisoft to go with that?
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I’d rather have that than the IPs being used to promote and indoctrinate some religious bullshit.
Again, why.
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First they came for EA, and I said hey, you want some Ubisoft to go with that?
The next Assassin’s Creed is gonna be wild.
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It’s going to be such a hack job with this takeover.
SA has a soon to be deady economy, because OIL doesnt last forever so they buy into whatever to keep thier country alive. SPORTSWASHIng , gamewashing.
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soccer, WWE, maybe UFC in the future is where all the money is at.
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SA has a soon to be deady economy, because OIL doesnt last forever so they buy into whatever to keep thier country alive. SPORTSWASHIng , gamewashing.
Just untrue. Saudi has massive deposits of rare earth metals, copper, gold. They’ll be fine.
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Just untrue. Saudi has massive deposits of rare earth metals, copper, gold. They’ll be fine.
if that were true, they wouldnt be desperately buying properities, and IP all over the world in the western world to stave off thier decline, clearly they dont see the NAT resources as enough, you should check your sources.
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if that were true, they wouldnt be desperately buying properities, and IP all over the world in the western world to stave off thier decline, clearly they dont see the NAT resources as enough, you should check your sources.
You are presuming they are doing that to stave off economic decline, which is incorrect. They’re doing it for global prestige.
