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Paying 55 billion for a company that couldn’t create a good video game if they tried is wild
who needs quality when you have whatever FIFA ultimate team is called now
it would be very funny to me if their sports games come out good now
FC gets better, madden gets worse
Good for consumers? No. Good for investors? Absolutely
“This investment embodies Silver Lake’s mission to partner with exceptional management teams at the highest quality companies. EA is a special company: a global leader in interactive entertainment, anchored by its premier sports franchise, with accelerating revenue growth and strong and scaling free cash flow. We are honored to invest and partner with Andrew – an extraordinary CEO who has doubled revenue, nearly tripled EBITDA, and driven a fivefold increase in market cap during his tenure,
The whole article sounds like this. It's fucking written in thieves' cant. But basically Saudi Arabia wants to infini-profit off of video games and paid more for a company in cash than anyone's ever paid cash for before. Can't imagine that means they'll put more sovl into the games. It's probably more gacha. 
s have really taken center stage as of late
how have other saudi soft-power investments been doing?
Unfortunately Microsoft isn't giving up Minecraft so they had to do this instead of making a Pokémon GO-Minecraft crossover
Newcastle is in the UCL 2 years in a row, and won the League Cup last season.
They bought SNK and released a massive flop of a Fatal Fury sequel with Christiano Ronaldo as a character.
lmao
What was EA's last good game? Had to have been one of the rockband/skate/burnout games from 20 years ago, right?
Spore was almost a good game
I liked Titanfall 2 and Jedi Fallen Order.
Did they develop those though, or just publish?
Publish, Respawn made those games.
FIFA 12 for me
It's like beating a mostly dead horse.
If they
rant
spoiler
For God's sake EA I'm not buying a $300 console, $120 on controllers, $100 online pass, $80 game in order to have a NCAA football machine in my house. Christ get it together!
I will give them critical support
Wait isn't Madden on pc. Why didn't they put ncaa on pc?
Beats me 🤷♂️ most people are wondering the same thing