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This is a very longwinded way to say "EA will die in a few years".
"I don't care who wins. I just want EA to lose." Star Wars guy
This, they destroyed the art of US video games because it was promoting bad values like gay marriage in The Sims
Leveraged buyouts are so stupid to me. "Hi, I'd like to buy this company, but since it will be my company, the company needs to have the debt, not me. So if it goes wrong, well, that's the company's fault, not mine." Should be illegal.
It's like buying a house, and then expecting the house to pay the mortgage.
This will be fun to watch. Maybe not for 14 500 EA employees. I kindly suggest them to leave as soon as possible.
Indeed. I think it would be in their best interest to find work elsewhere before they end up getting laid off at the most inconvenient time.
Beyond that it should be amusing to watch this company go down in flames.
Business majors are so incredibly dumb. Why did we as a society decide they were so important?
So now EA has been acquired and will become a shell of it's former self.
Ironic.
I just uninstalled EA launcher because it's a fucking cancer and I see this afterwards... If it's not on Steam it's piracy material from here on out. Fuck all other launchers/services except GoG, GoG is cool too.
I can't wait for this "investment" to go so down the drain for them...
A lot of what this means is a pivot to the highest yield games. So... more GACHA and other lootbox style gaming. Cheaper assets, more redundancy in levels, shorter and cheaper cut scenes, etc.
But this is normal operating procedure in a bust-out style business model. EA's going to be boiled down and stripped just like so many prior studios, from THQ to Bioware.
I've not bought an EA game in 11+ years and see no reason to start now.
"And then it got worse" isn't only a valid description of Russian History.
“The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA’s profits in the coming years"
I'll take that bet.
So basically procedurally generated everything with no substance?
EA Sports It's in the slop
Has been for many years
There's a huge bet that most of us are going to boycott this tomfuckery and do no further business with EA.
Already have.
Unfortunately, will the EA Sports fans and Battlefield fans do the same?
If they hadn't left already, they never will.
FIFA and Madden have been dog shit iterations for years and years and people keep buying them. Plus Battlefield 6 might actually be good and will test plenty of people (like me) who said "never again" long ago. Luckily I probably won't actually be tempted because of EA anti cheat and Linux incompatibility.
I was all up for BF6. It releases in two weeks. A bunch of friends are going to get it. I was a bit annoyed that it was the only reason I'd still be using windows11 but I was prepared to wear it. But Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, fuck.that.noise. No way am I giving that cunt anti-cheat access to my computer.
No.... They won't. But the rest of us free thinkers will. Is it a win? I dunno. I'll carry that flag tho.
I have an hard time believing multiple investment funds can be so clueless.
They aren’t, they will make money stripping EA for parts and once the husk is spent it will be disposed of.
I don't see how EA can be that valuable when taken apart. Ok they've got the sports licenses and a few good IPs, but idk.
Why not? Were you alive 17 years ago? Have you already forgotten how much money Madoff took? How much money was lost to the subprime ponzi?
Bye EA. Was nice knowing you.
E: just noticed I’ve been playing EA games since M.U.L.E. on the C-64. Say what you want about the company itself, but they have a long history of making games people want to play. Been playing the entire Battlefield franchise since 1942. Sucks that you can’t play 2142 or even Hardline anymore.
'We bought you, you owe us money' is theft with more steps.
In the example of Toys'r'us, it ends up being theft against other creditors, suppliers, workers, etc, who end up not getting paid when it collapses.
In bankruptcies the entity who introduced the debt should be liable for it (the new parent company)
Looks like the monopoly on sports video games is ending soon.
They're over leveraged on AI so they're trying to create markets for it, lol. Jesus christ this economy is a ponzi scheme
Ah so we can see EA do a Kmart. Neat
EA being on the recieving end of what they've been doing to others for years
Kind of a strange bet to make when AI use has been going down in large companies lately. Hope EA goes down as well.
This is assuming people will pay money to play AI slop. These companies continue to vastly overestimate the value of AI produced content. It might be passable on like, bags of candy, maybe even occasionally passable on like free webcomics. And low quality website design. Maybe some simple cash grab mobile games that get taken down after a couple weeks due to the obvious scams.
But paid video games? Which theyre already charging absurd prices for? No. This bubble will burst and companies that continue producing actual games will come out ahead. Companies that are foolishly going all in on entirely unproven technology will crumble.
I mean... you're talking about the company that makes billions of dollars a year on FIFA games, which are already only one step removed from AI slop. I don't seriously think EA's customer base will care; the quality of the games made by EA is already low enough that I don't believe the use of AI will move the needle. And honestly, will anyone care if it's AI updating the rosters and title to FIFA 26? I guess I feel bad for the working devs putting food on their table, but is that the job that want?
hope they least long enough to release the worst game in history.
The image being so small makes it funnier.
Hahaha sure, let them do that.
I always hated them anyway. Good riddance.
They’re also betting on people buying this crap. Hopefully they don’t.