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Bennyboybumberchums, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

So, just the same soulless cash grabs as usual going forward?

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Soulless cash grab with a healthy veneer of jingoism and plenty of toxic masculinity.

You’ll play your Muscle Man Beats Up The Evil Foreigners game, you’ll pay top dollar for it, and if you’re lucky you’ll get a loot box with a Trump/MBS NFT in it.

YiddishMcSquidish, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

So still no reason to buy? Gotcha!

Goodeye8, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

To be fair, Bioware has been on the chopping block for some time. I imagine even without going private EA would’ve gutted Bioware if Mass Effect 4 wasn’t a massive success. In my mind the possibility of Bioware getting shuttered has risen only marginally because that possibility was already high to begin with.

CrabAndBroom,

Yeah BioWare has felt like a kind of zombie studio to me for a while. They managed to coast along on Mass Effect/Dragon Age momentum for like a decade or so, but I can’t remember the last time they had a big hit game.

Plus those type of games are the ones that take quite a lot of time and resources to do well, so I can’t see that fitting in well with EA’s new “generate endless AI slop until we pay off our debts” business model.

Bronzebeard,

Uh…Mass Effect 4 wasn’t a massive success, and they DID gut the studio.

This would have been ME5

Kolanaki, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I believe that. EA didn’t have values before and will continue to not have them now.

Noite_Etion, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop
@Noite_Etion@lemmy.world avatar

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite bigoted country in the Middle East!

sadfitzy,

“Bigoted” is putting it lightly and only seems to pander to a certain crowd.

ArchmageAzor, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

Looks like I’ll be going from not playing EA games to not playing EA games.

18+ pprem, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop
@pprem@plantex.top avatar

Les extrémistes religieux vont venir nous faire chier partout où ils le pourront... C'est logique, mais ça casse les couilles !

MaggiWuerze,
@MaggiWuerze@feddit.org avatar

Religious extremists will come and piss us off wherever they can… It makes sense, but it’s a pain in the ass!

The problem is that we allowed these idiots to amass so much wealth, that they can just buy and ruin everything they don’t agree with. If the US had anything close to an actual anti cartel agency, they would not allow these kind of takeover to protect free speech and american values

TurkishKebab,

American values like what? Imperialism? It is funny Americans (or Europeans for that matter) still act like their countries have free speech😂you only have free speech as long as that speech doesn’t go against your interests.

(no, i am not defending saudi, they are literally an american puppet)

MaggiWuerze,
@MaggiWuerze@feddit.org avatar

I’m european myself and think there have been american values before but yeah, they’ve pretty much been eroded since the 80s

TurkishKebab,

I mean i am Turkish and we are still in a worse position than you,

You guys are living in oligarchies

I am living in a dictatorship

Quacksalber, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

They would never, but they should sell the rights of their rpg franchises

ceph, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
@ceph@lemmy.world avatar

So, more of the same or worse.

jaybone, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

lol haha lmao.

Oh tkey’re serious? Ok. Sure.

NoPanko,

EAs “values” were already pretty nonexistent so I believe them

ramenshaman, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
Linktank, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

What he means is that they will still be a pos company that only cares about the bottom line and COULD NOT care less about the end user. Exactly the same.

natecox, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

Fuck EA.

AlecSadler, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

lol values

BroBot9000, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Go fuck yourselves you greedy corporate colostomy bags.

Hopefully this shreds EA and their IPs to bits and we finally get some new and original ideas from the indie studios that pop up from the ruins.

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