EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: “Projects just won’t get signed because they don’t align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants”
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/ea-staff-fear-new-saudi-arabia-owners-will-police-their-games-projects-just-wont-get-signed-because-they-dont-align-explicitly-with-what-the-saudi-government-wants/
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…in other news, water still wet, more at 11
Because they weren’t making puritan coded games before?
EA has been dead for a while now, this is just another brick in the wall
Is that the sound of bone saws being sharpened?
Coming soon from EA: no negative depictions of slavery.
Remember Saudi Arabia is a state that uses slavery.
Then EA will have the same outcome as the infamous “Line” Project that Saudi Arabia wasted billions on.
Yes, that’s how totalitarian countries work. Good job dipshits.
It was insane to allow them to buy it at all.
Good, won’t buy that slop.
The crippling debt will sink the company long before MBS can design any of the skins
Is that person in the pic Dice trying to figure out netcode??
In Germany, we say “tja.” r/tja
More than likely they will sell off IPs
No shit! Hopefully Disney looks to other studios for any future Star Wars games and every other company licensing IP to them goes somewhere else, would be oh so sweet to see EA go under
Haven’t bought an EA game in over 10 years. Never again.
Oh no, I hope their $55 Billion investment doesn’t end up causing them massive losses. That would be a shame.
Dear EA staff:
Find a new job. Maintain contacts with your friends from the office and as soon as the agreement you signed lapses, start a new studio with your friends.
EA Sports Journalist Bonesaw Simulator 2027
Yes, that’s why selling to them was such an obviously poor choice. The state of the industry wasn’t exactly great before but it’s probably about to get much worse. How many more games are going to shoehorn Christiano Ronaldo into their roster?
The leopards certainly aren’t going hungry tonight.
They’re just realizing this now?
It was the #1 thing people were upset about with the acquisition.
Then just don’t play their new games. Problem solved. Don’t need to work around.
Imagine reading this quote in 2002.
We are so unbelievably screwed.
His name was Jamal Khashoggi. His name was Jamal Khashoggi. HIS NAME WAS JAMAL KHASHOGGI!
The games are going to be trash anyway regardless of who owns the company
Yep! That’s what happens when a company aligns with evil.
That’s why you don’t get commerce mixed in with dictators. Just saying.
Too late for that now isn’t it?
Get ready for basic human rights being taken away from the female characters in The Sims.
Happened with movies and China
Imagine EA/BioWare releasing gender progressive games like Mass Effect (at the time) under the new ownership? Oh my.Â
Haven’t purchased an EA game since 2013. No way I’d touch their games ever again.
From one extreme to another
And this surprises anyone why?
EA’s fucked.
I’m not sure the Saudi government will care that much about content released outside of their country.
Sounds like EA just needs to die all the way and another can rise in their place
Sweet, let the company die and people with real ideas can band together and make meaningful games again. EA has been a cesspool for a long time now.
Id normally feel sorry for the people who work on games when something fails, but EA recycles so much im not sure i can even feel bad for that.
Wow, who could have seen that coming…
I don’t buy EA games anyway.
I’m good.
I mean.. uh duhh
They forget.
Saudis have no principals, just greed.