Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion
arstechnica.com
Saudi investment fund, Jared Kushner are reportedly among the interested buyers…
  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    7 months ago

    Just kill off the company already. They have only put out absolute shit these last 2 decades. Just kill it and do us all a favour.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Last 2 decades? Mass Effect trilogy, DA: Origins, the last few good NFS games and so on all came out less than 2 decades ago.

      I will however admit I have no idea what they’ve made this last decade. I think they had an actually good Star Wars game with no MTX or online some time ago?

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    15·
    7 months ago

    First EA killed all the good developers/publishers like Codemasters… Maxis. Visceral. Criterion. Black Box.

    ANd now they will be sold to a private investors…? What the hack… EA is dead to me already.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    They’re being sold to the Saudis. The same guys who hacked up a journalist so they will continue the EA tradition of hacking up developers, only now 100% more physically.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    Serious question. What difference does this make? They’re already a shit corporate soulless entity, how much worse can things get? I already avoid 99% of their games

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Hear me out:

    • Split Fiction and everything from Hazelight is fantastic.

    …That’s about it.

    I guess churning stuff out like F1 or Sims DLC every year isn’t particularly offensive, and they didn’t mess up ME LE too bad. And they have a history of some neat originals.

    What I’m saying is EA isn’t really the mega villain anymore. And maybe the longer-term horizon allowed by going private will help?

  • ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Everyone be buying yo dataaaaaaaaa, no longer a struggle to hide illegal activity because we privateeeeee. It’s a new song I’m working on.