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
    242·
    13 days 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.

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      13 days ago

      Probably where we’re headed, ‘private investors’ is usually code for people who are going to strip and sell off the company.

      I hope the IP lands somewhere good.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        13 days ago

        Honestly I hope the IPs get locked up and shredded in legal battles so that we can just start fresh with some new and original ideas.

        • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          13 days ago

          There are some that I’d be sad about.

          I’d really like to see American Mcgee somehow get the entirety of the Alice license back under his control. That man has been trying to finish his vision in some fashion for almost 2 decades now. I think he may have finally given up, but dude has had it rough and it’s obviously his lifes work. I’d also love to see someone take the Sims back to its roots and I don’t think anyone is going to get the money required to do it right without getting the name.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      13 days 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?

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        13 days ago

        I drew that line at Battlefield 3. That was my last Origin only game and I refuse to use any other launcher besides Steam after that.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    16·
    13 days 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.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    13 days 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

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    13 days 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.

  • ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    13 days 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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 days 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?