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

“I mean, they can’t get any worse, right?”

Spoiler alert: They can.

Don’t buy anything from EA, ever again.

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

Their bottom line of money making remains unchanged. Now, Kushner and the Saudi Royal Family will also be involved… and this is a mess waiting to happen.

Absolute BS from Wilson here.

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

It’s fitting that EA now belongs to a despotic regime and the spoiled son-in-law of a despot. It couldn’t be more telling.

I won’t be buying anything from them anymore.

Jivebunny,
@Jivebunny@lemmy.world avatar

funny how I have not bought any of their games for a long time now, since it’s mostly slop anyways nowadays

DandomRude,
@DandomRude@lemmy.world avatar

That’s true, but now it’s also autocrat slop, which in my opinion disqualifies this company once and for all.

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.

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

Well, okay then. I doubt that I have any EA games on my roster, but I’ll go through and give it a diligent scrubbing, just to be on the safe side.

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

“Thank you for buying our game!” “Please sign in and give us all your personal information to play.” -Saudi ArabEA

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

Hey, at least EA has not had a journalist dismembered… yet.

Sabata11792,

They must have dismembered the witnesses too. Knowing EA, they sold the organs in loot boxes.

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

Not gonna lie, I was pretty stoked for Battlefield 6. Haven’t played one since 3 and all my friends were gonna get it. Guess I’ll just go fuck myself and keeping playing Overwatch or something.

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I played the beta weekends. I can assure you anything fun will be nerfed, because all the fun stuff was what the sweaty basement boys were complaining about the most. You’re not going to miss out on much of the final product.

TommySoda,

I played it too and I 100% agree. However, I feel like it’s always a good thing to keep in mind that the best time to play an online shooter is when it first comes out. That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left. My friends convinced me to try Fortnite just a couple years ago and all that happened was I got stomped every match and was like “this is fun for you guys?” I’ve been playing Overwatch since release and it’s basically impossible to get a match I’d consider “fun,” so to speak. I just wanted to get in on the fun for Battlefield before it turned into all sweats. Now I’d prefer to just avoid it all together.

Viking_Hippie,

That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left.

As an enthusiastic but inept gamer with overactive sweat glands, I object to being lumped in with the overcompetitive fun killers! 😁

Tbf though, I don’t even play shooters in the first place. Unless you (wrongly) count the modern Fallout games, like some do.

Truscape, (edited )

I’ve been hooked on The Finals for my destruction shooter fix, since the development team (Embark Studios) is mostly composed of ex-DICE employees. Their upcoming game Arc Raiders also looks pretty good.

Edit: typo fix

dan1101,
@dan1101@lemmy.world avatar

I was stoked for BF6 until it wanted me to enable Secure Boot and install rootkit anti-cheat. Now with the Saudis and Jared Kushner in charge installing a rootkit to play a game is an even worse idea. Maybe if I only used the computer for gaming.

Lfrith,

Finals has superior destruction anyways.

brucethemoose, 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

This makes me think of the Ellisons buying Star Trek and Avatar. Why wouldn’t they shutter or castrate two notoriously ‘woke’, expensive, questionably profitable franchises?

Same here :(. Though to be fair, the Saudi’s political leanings aren’t a perfect parallel.

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

Delete your EA accounts if you haven’t already.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

At the very least, spoil the data that they hold on file for you.

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

“Our values have always been terrible. Expect no change.”

Passerby6497, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

Sure, they’ll just now promote games where Nazis and religious fundies murder journalists and gender minorities

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

“We value taking advantage of young children with lootboxes, pay to win, loads of DLC’s to make games have actual content (still shit) and to find new ways to extort kids out of even more money than we have done so far. We believe our new leadership consisting of an extremist genocide supporting asshole and a regime where stoning women is normal won’t change our values but would only support them.”

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

Wake the fuck up

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!

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