discussion Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal (Saudi Arabia/Jared Kushner)

[jkj34]

Nothing like waking up and being like hey lets call my Saudi Arabia friends i am the son in law of dt so i know them well we can buy a company for 55billion pocket change..........


Thought i would put this up here as now well who knows what censorship/rules or direction this will have on the gaming front as a whole there has been so many angles of attack recently this might as be another one.

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[trc450]

Yea, noticed. Most curious, whats up, no clue how ea is worth that much, much less how to make that back. I'm out of loop what EU even makes these days, lot's of seasonal sports games and sims dlc?

I don't see Dragon age and Mass effect romance options go well there either.

 

[jkj34]

Yea, noticed. Most curious, whats up, no clue how ea is worth that much, much less how to make that back. I'm out of loop what EU even makes these days, lot's of seasonal sports games and sims dlc?

I don't see Dragon age and Mass effect romance options go well there either.

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They make over 20 billion a year this is a 3 month report for 2025.

Its the odd ball stuff you do not realize they own the ip too that is why this is a huge issue even indie games are under a umbrella that is owned by EA.

 

[trc450]

They make over 20 billion a year this is a 3 month report for 2025.

Its the odd ball stuff you do not realize they own the ip too that is why this is a huge issue even indie games are under a umbrella that is owned by EA.

Wild, you would think fatigue would had kicked in by now with them. Totally out of my view, no wonder they afford the hundred million flops here and there.

 

[jkj34]

Wild, you would think fatigue would had kicked in by now with them. Totally out of my view, no wonder they afford the hundred million flops here and there.

right i agree but sadly each year those sports games make stupid money and i am always doing the but why meme.

 

[4rcan1st]

I'm not a stock savant, but did they force everyone that holds shares of EA to sell whether they wanted to or not? because that's what it sounds like.
how is the little people now going to benefit from all the loot boxes' income! how!

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[jkj34]

I'm not a stock savant, but did they force everyone that holds shares of EA to sell whether they wanted to or not? because that's what it sounds like.
how is the little people now going to benefit from all the loot boxes' income! how!

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Well this is whispers of them using AI were they can now and no doubt mass layoffs price game changes and Saudi Arabia is not into gambling so dlc packs now.

 

[Kernist]

Good, maybe some arabs just want to play a good FIFA and they decided they need to buy whole company for it to happen.

 

[AlBetGam]

I mean, let's be real.

The new owners couldn't possibly make EA worse.

 

[ErzuzB]

My personal theory:
This is another method of Saudi Arabia to play the nice guy for the upcomming FIFA WorldCup 2034 and beyond.
They have been 'sportwashing' to improve their global image and influence for some time now, buying the WorldCub was one step (They were the unchallenged contenders in the 2024 bidding process, because FIFA is more corrupt than the police chief of any OG mafia town).
They made huge PR campains with soccer. They even persuaded/bought many big-name soccer player to move to Saudi Arabia and play in their league. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo ($200M), Neymar ($160M) and Karim Benzema ($120M) are playing there now in the compared to other soccer nations abysmal saudi arabic league.

So there is a hight chance that you will see Saudi Arabia in those game suddenly pop up and be presented as a "warm and welcoming country without any human rights issues".

 

[Sural Argonus]

I will never support anything the Saudi Propaganda Fund does or says. Fuck those guys.

 

[Republican Bear]

Sounds like the final nail in the coffin for BioWare as the company is still 20 billion in debt right now.

Analysts who spoke to Ars agreed that studios that weren't involved in EA's most consistently profitable franchises (generally sports games, Battlefield, and The Sims) were at the most risk of facing layoffs or sell-offs under this new private version of EA. That could spell trouble for EA studios like BioWare (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Codemasters (F1, Dirt), and even Respawn (Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi).

"EA will get split between strategic crown jewels on the one hand and assets to be managed on the other," Aldora CEO Joost van Dreunen told Ars. Cole agreed that "spinning off smaller divisions" was likely in the cards. But Futter wondered if some of EA's larger studios could even find an outside buyer at this point. "I'm not sure who would take the risk on a huge investment like [BioWare] after all the struggles with the last couple of releases," Futter said. And if these struggling studios can't be sold, EA seems likely to use significant layoffs to "right-size" the less profitable parts of the company.

"Servicing $20 billion of debt means cutting costs," Futter said. "Companies the size of EA often see labor as a number to be reduced on a spreadsheet."

Let them just focus on what makes them money - Sims, Madden, and FIFA, etc.

 

[jkj34]

My personal theory:
This is another method of Saudi Arabia to play the nice guy for the upcomming FIFA WorldCup 2034 and beyond.
They have been 'sportwashing' to improve their global image and influence for some time now, buying the WorldCub was one step (They were the unchallenged contenders in the 2024 bidding process, because FIFA is more corrupt than the police chief of any OG mafia town).
They made huge PR campains with soccer. They even persuaded/bought many big-name soccer player to move to Saudi Arabia and play in their league. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo ($200M), Neymar ($160M) and Karim Benzema ($120M) are playing there now in the compared to other soccer nations abysmal saudi arabic league.

So there is a hight chance that you will see Saudi Arabia in those game suddenly pop up and be presented as a "warm and welcoming country without any human rights issues".

Somone needs to use ai on this meme put Mohammed Salman as the actor the rest well fits

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[ErzuzB]

BTW

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[ApocalypseSurvivor]

Nothing like waking up and being like hey lets call my Saudi Arabia friends i am the son in law of dt so i know them well we can buy a company for 55billion pocket change..........


Thought i would put this up here as now well who knows what censorship/rules or direction this will have on the gaming front as a whole there has been so many angles of attack recently this might as be another one.

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It doesnt matter. It'll be the same. Nothing changes.

 

[tawefo]

Reports are it's a leveraged buyout, too, so EA will immediately be saddled with $20 billion of debt, which will totally not fuck the quality of their output as they add even more microtransaction bullshit to everything to try and make up the difference.

I guess it doesn't matter--Bioware hasn't been Bioware for anymore for at least a decade and I don't care about sports games. The best thing EA has done in years was publish It Takes Two and Split Fiction.

 

[1nstonE]

I have a hard time reading this as bad news. In terms of commercial practices, EA is not exactly an upstanding corp and most of their games are sports game, which are incredibly formulaic, Sims (just DLC predation) or shovelware (looking at you BW). Some good indies but indie studios don't need EA. Bottom line, either EA remains the same (so no difference), they get scrapped (one less scumbag company, good news) or the Saudis somehow and regardless of motives improve EA (also good news)

 

[MattShizzle]

EA was already a pretty awful company. Maybe now they'll have games that involve beheading and stoning people to death.

 

[cosicosi89]

EA was already a pretty awful company. Maybe now they'll have games that involve beheading and stoning people to death.

... Harem DLC?

 

[Buttergolem]

I mean, let's be real.

The new owners couldn't possibly make EA worse.

I thought the same about Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard. How could anything be worse than Bobby Kotick?

I played Hearthstone for 6 days the week for the last 5 years and now I am quitting. Why?

Let me tell you same things that changed under Microsoft.

Dev are lying.

HS is pay to win now.

HS is a gacha game now.

More technical difficulties than ever.

Maybe that’s because Microsoft fired many people.

Prices for digital products are rising with every update.

No communication with the players or even the people in the creator program.

We have almost the same meta for 24 month now.

I was a fool than I thought it could not getting any worse and I am certain you will feel like one too.

(Provided you care about EA products at all.)