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Treczoks, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

Not a loss for me. I liked them when they were still good, on C64 and Amiga. But now? Good riddance. May the sheiks have fun with it.

Quill7513,

i’m less worried about me not buying their games and more worried about the folks who buy madden every year even though the last interesting release was 08

DoucheBagMcSwag,

08 you say?

Scott the Woz has entered the chat

Sunshine, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
@Sunshine@piefed.ca avatar

Gotta delete the account next.

warm, do games w 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh

I mean the set has missed the mark, from that image in the article. So I'd be pretty disappointed if I was a dev.

jordanlund, do games w The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like the gaming equivalent of the play “Equus”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play)

I can see why some would shy away from it, but banning it is the sort of thing that will keep gaming from becoming a unique art form. 😟

dukemirage,

It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.

_cryptagion,
@_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus avatar

It was a child doing pony play, riding a naked adult man-horse. The dev claimed it was not sexual.

I don’t think gaming needs CSAM to be a “unique art form”, but you do you.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Read the plot summary of the play Equus linked above.

Like I say, this sounds like the gaming equivalent of Equus, which, when performed, involves a character supposed to be 17 doing exactly that.

The horses on stage are supposed to be “real” horses, but are performed by human actors. The male actor in these scenes is also typically nude.

NGL, it’s a HEAVY play to read and even heavier to watch, but it also won the 1975 Tony Award for best play…

douglasg14b, (edited )
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world avatar

Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

Depiction isn’t harm, if it was damn near all literature would be in the same category.

Let’s not go down that slippery slope.

Books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume would be considered abuse material on such an asinine slope.

_cryptagion,
@_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus avatar

Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

it’s literally legally defined as CSAM in most western countries. and I probably wouldn’t be arguing otherwise, since it looks like the other dude who did that got all his posts deleted by the mod.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

Drawing people having sex isn’t sex, but it is porn. Verbally attacking someone isn’t assault, but it can be abuse. Drawing a comic where someone tortures and then kills the president of the United States isn’t murder, but it will get the FBI knocking on your door.

Prove_your_argument, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn’t you know?

W3dd1e,

Do they need Kushner for that? They done a pretty good job funneling money to Him over the last 8 years.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/77d45518-f6c0-4df3-a582-b682b7833ca5.webp

Prove_your_argument,

As long as the money keeps coming there won’t be any problems.

That’s always how it’s been!

tidderuuf, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

Oh good, I can continue not buying EA games.

seathru,
@seathru@quokk.au avatar

No, but I may pirate a few now. Just to seed them as a tiny middle finger to the saudis.

wilmo,
@wilmo@lemmy.ml avatar

I’d have to check but I think the only EA game I even care one iota about would be Dead Space. But I already got the remake for free on PS5 and I pretty highly doubt they’ll remake the other two so… I’m good

Fedizen, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

How is this even legal?

okamiueru,

What exactly about it is it you feel should be illegal?

Fedizen,

Foreign country buying a US corporation. Seems like their investment should be capped at like 15%

Blaiz0r,

US companies by foreign companies all the time, look at the food and drink corporations.

This is not a new or strange thing

cecilkorik,

It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

titanicx,

It’s a world economy. What are you, some sort of maga twit America first and only bullshit?

cecilkorik,

That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It’s very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it’s a “world economy” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world’s financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

lolola,

“Stop being such a fascist and let us do business with these fucking murderers”

titanicx,

I don’t want them to buy it. But there isn’t anything illegal with investors purchasing a company line this no matter where they are from. It’s just business, it really doesn’t matter who owns them, they suck no matter what

Fedizen,

I think its more there is a certain level of baseline public investment in most corporations and it seems dumb to maintain the fiction that people’s livelihoods should be sold as a commodity, especially to a bunch of despots

Bronzebeard,

US Steel is now a Japanese company

Fedizen,

Except many foreign countries have stricter legal frameworks for corporations.

The “corporations are people” legal fiction means they have rights here. Citizen’s United has fucked this country in profoundly dumb ways.

greenskye,

I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.

forrgott, (edited )

You seem to be under some misconception regarding who actually writes our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.

titanicx,

Bribery? They are buying a company. That’s it. There isn’t anything special about it. It’s like any other company out there.

forrgott,

And I was talking about the so-called legality of the situation. So, pretty clearly not referring to the headline…

titanicx,

Again, no legal issues.

forrgott,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/3d8e96ad-382f-4ff8-a199-b8b05e33c526.gif

How about if you can’t follow a conversation, maybe stay out of it? Like, for real, I didn’t know that else to tell you.

Cocodapuf,

If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?

Honestly, I’m not sure you’re talking about anything.

dukemirage, do gaming w When the worst company in the world couldn't get any worse...

Nominating EA for “worst company” always has been ridiculous. Gamers need to touch some grass.

ea6927d8,

In a world where big tech, Nestlé, and Monsanto exist, the OP is way out of touch with reality.

OldQWERTYbastard,
Pechente, do gaming w When the worst company in the world couldn't get any worse...

With lots of new EA titles requiring kernel level anti-cheat, I don’t see what could go wrong here /s

OldQWERTYbastard,

If I need to install their client to play a game, I just don’t play it.

KaChilde, do games w The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle

The game company seems to have thought that they could drum up sales on other platforms by making this a media thing. Based on the additional platforms pulling out, it might have backfired. They could have let their little horse-porn game quietly release on every platform but Steam and made enough to get by. Instead they drew attention to themselves.

REDACTED,

Did it not work tho? This was my first itch.io purchase ever

KaChilde,

Not arguing the effectiveness of drumming up drama to sell your game, but they have also lost the accessibility of three major platforms in doing so.

alehel,

Humble page is back up, not sure what happened there.

GreyCat,

Good on you for dismissing years of work from a group of people as a “little horse-porn game”.

desmosthenes, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

EA games suck nowadays anyway; this was just a buyout for shareholders and founders.

YesButActuallyMaybe,

Remind me: when was this not the case? I never in my life heard anyone ever say ‘oh great, it’s an EA game’

utjebe,

Probably games around year 2000. Not so much recycling back then.

pinheadednightmare,

Yep, their early days were bad ass… pretty much like any company that starts out before they become corporate cock suckers

desmosthenes,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

dead space, mirrors edge, original skate

yggstyle,

Just listed some of my favorites right there. ME was way ahead of it’s time. Banger game.

watson387,
@watson387@sopuli.xyz avatar
Cocodapuf,

93 was my jam.

But yeah, I’d play that.

I_Jedi,

Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone for PC was pretty good.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

Does “It takes two” count as an EA game?

TipRing,

Back in the late 80s they were pretty legit.

magnetosphere, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

Does EA own any other companies/brands that we should be aware of?

moody,

Yes, they’ve been buying up smaller studios for decades and shutting them down.

There’s an entire wikipedia page about it.

DamienGramatacus,

The only EA franchise I’ve cared about in the last 15 years was Mirrors Edge. Would love another but I’ve long given up hope on that.

Credibly_Human,

Unfortunately they have an exclusive publishing deal with the guys who made it takes two and split fiction.

bystander,
Credibly_Human, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

The buyout has effectively already gone through, and as the price has been decided, any money you give to them is directly going to saudi arabia, as they will get that new value.

khepri, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just kept on a-diggin til they struck oil didn’t they.

OutwateredFish, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
@OutwateredFish@lemmy.ca avatar

We are all children of jesus petro states.

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