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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.

TalkingFlower, do games w This Minecraft map that recreates [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design

He cites a lot of Immersive Sim level design, Minecraft does not have that sort of detail; it merely provides a block-by-block construction system with some rudimentary decoration, it’s not gonna achieve his design requirement.

Kolanaki, do games w The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I am just gonna pretend like Epic and HB banned it only after see all this PR work they’re trying to do to save this god awful looking piece of “art.”

And just becsuse the comments here don’t seem to know the real root issue: The game originally featured a child protagonist, and that was what Valve was sent to review. They only changed the protag to an adult after the rejection and now they are throwing a hissy fit over their pedo game being banned.

W3dd1e, 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

And the rest is Jared Kushner. Enjoy that shit sandwich.

EA was already shit, but somehow they found bread made from shit and built a whole sandwich.

acme401, 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
@acme401@lemmy.world avatar

I deleted my account, intentionally losing access to all my games. Fuck EA. I will not be associated with murders.

Blackmist, 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

And the worst thing is, they probably still won’t be as self-destructively greedy as they were before.

crusa187, 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

Didn’t need additional reasons to never buy EA garbage, but yeah sure ok.

PanArab, do gaming w When the worst company in the world couldn't get any worse...
@PanArab@lemmy.ml avatar

“Arab country bad”

PowerCrazy,

Saudi Arabia is absolutely bad. I’d go so far as to call them the EA of Countries.

Krompus, 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
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar

EA (Respawn) peaked at Titanfall 2 and hasn’t released anything good since. I set them to Ignore on Steam a few years ago.

zaphod,

Jedi Fallen Order was good though (also Respawn).

Krompus,
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah Respawn is a good dev, just a shame they got bought by EA and scrapped Titanfall 3.

real_squids,

And even then they massively fucked up by ignoring all the ddosing for years. It gave us Northstar but it’s a paid fucking game, come on man.

DaMummy, 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

Effectively all it? That’s 93.4%, that’s more than 90%, and almost 95%, which is almost 100%, which would be all of it!

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

This guy maths.

motor_spirit,

But they’re not equal, hence the phrasing

pennomi,

They are saying it’s redundant, and therefore unnecessary.

nogooduser,

Yeah but it isn’t really redundant (even if it could have been worded better). Someone might believe that the other shareholders have some say in how the company operates when they won’t.

So, as far as control over the company is concerned, the Saudis have 100% control even though they don’t have 100% of the shares.

Fondots,

If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of people out there are incredibly dumb, and don’t understand basic math, let alone how a company like EA works.

I can guarantee you that there are more dipshits out there than you’d think who would look at that number and say “well it’s less than 100 percent, so they don’t have total control, so what’s the big deal?”

Now as for whether any amount of clarification is enough to convince those idiots that that’s not how things work, that’s a fair question.

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