The buyout has effectively already gone through, and as the price has been decided, any money you give to them is directly going to saudi arabia, as they will get that new value.
Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just kept on a-diggin til they struck oil didn’t they.
We are all children of
jesuspetro states.And the rest is Jared Kushner. Enjoy that shit sandwich.
EA was already shit, but somehow they found bread made from shit and built a whole sandwich.
SA - fuck up everything.
sounds like a perfect match for EA
Oh good, I can continue not buying EA games.
No, but I may pirate a few now. Just to seed them as a tiny middle finger to the saudis.
Didn’t need additional reasons to never buy EA garbage, but yeah sure ok.
EA games suck nowadays anyway; this was just a buyout for shareholders and founders.
Remind me: when was this not the case? I never in my life heard anyone ever say ‘oh great, it’s an EA game’
Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone for PC was pretty good.
dead space, mirrors edge, original skate
Just listed some of my favorites right there. ME was way ahead of it’s time. Banger game.
Probably games around year 2000. Not so much recycling back then.
Yep, their early days were bad ass… pretty much like any company that starts out before they become corporate cock suckers
If you still buy EA games at this point you better not tell anyone because you’re a braindead fuckwit for sending Saudis your money
Wait, you think the Saudis buying EA have anything to do with profit? EAs profits and earnings are meaningless to them.
I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏
Some people have no choice in what kind of car they can afford to drive.
We all have a very easy choice when it comes to choosing your video games
People commonly have a choice not to drive a car in the first place.
Though cultural pressures, as well as some specific areas being genuinely hard to reach, pushes many people towards it anyway. But if you have a choice, choose public.
Have you seen North American public transportation?
Yeah, I have a “choice”, but it’s 60-85 minutes on 3 busses or a 12 minute drive to get to and from work.
Yeah, North America and US specifically is one of these hard to reach places
Also, 12 minutes drive is a biking distance - if you have any semblance of bike infrastructure, that is. Surprisingly though, even American cities have that sometimes.
Also, 12 minutes drive is a biking distance
My 15 minute car commute would take over an hour with a bicycle, lead me over multiple busy and dangerous country roads, has three mountains with over 20% elevation that I have to pass, and would be incredibly unsafe in the winter even with studded tires.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually do take my bicycle when I’m not in a hurry and the weather is right. But it’s a huge time sink and doesn’t absolve my of my dependency on a car.
The same commute takes 2 hours with public transport btw so that’s even worse
And this is in Germany, not north America
This thread is peak Lemmy.
I’d have to ride several blocks on a 4 lane stroad to go anywhere outside of my neighborhood. It’s so depressing.
Feel you - hope you’ll have safer ways to bike in the future! Maybe there are some kind of bike advocacy groups in your area?
People do not commonly have a choice here
In America there is near 0 public transit outside of a few major cities
that’s an improvement over sending the usians our money.
barely but still.
I deleted my account, intentionally losing access to all my games. Fuck EA. I will not be associated with murders.
Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn’t you know?
Do they need Kushner for that? They done a pretty good job funneling money to Him over the last 8 years.
The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.
Effectively all it? That’s 93.4%, that’s more than 90%, and almost 95%, which is almost 100%, which would be all of it!
This guy maths.
But they’re not equal, hence the phrasing
They are saying it’s redundant, and therefore unnecessary.
Yeah but it isn’t really redundant (even if it could have been worded better). Someone might believe that the other shareholders have some say in how the company operates when they won’t.
So, as far as control over the company is concerned, the Saudis have 100% control even though they don’t have 100% of the shares.
If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of people out there are incredibly dumb, and don’t understand basic math, let alone how a company like EA works.
I can guarantee you that there are more dipshits out there than you’d think who would look at that number and say “well it’s less than 100 percent, so they don’t have total control, so what’s the big deal?”
Now as for whether any amount of clarification is enough to convince those idiots that that’s not how things work, that’s a fair question.
EA (Respawn) peaked at Titanfall 2 and hasn’t released anything good since. I set them to Ignore on Steam a few years ago.
Jedi Fallen Order was good though (also Respawn).
Yeah Respawn is a good dev, just a shame they got bought by EA and scrapped Titanfall 3.
And even then they massively fucked up by ignoring all the ddosing for years. It gave us Northstar but it’s a paid fucking game, come on man.
And the worst thing is, they probably still won’t be as self-destructively greedy as they were before.
