Open market is great, this is what we want - money rules all
Bosses cashed out and left the carcas to rot
The ironic part is it’s the same thing that happened to all the companies EA bought too
They aren’t concerned about being owned by Trump’s family too?
They own the Trump’s, not the other way around
EA owns the Trumps?
Finally, we get a Gran Turismo of camel racing!
GOAT simulator but (butt),well,— you know…
On the plus side, you don’t have to m----r the goats to get your money back.
No you’ll get a version of Gran Turismo with sand duning and loads of Aramco banners everywhere.
No more Woke games then? 😂
Compared to taking orders from Sweet Baby Inc of course
EA is loaded with so much debt I doubt it will even matter. They‘ll be dismantled.
But that’s a good thing, because it will go down in flames the way most of us have wanted to see for over a decade.
Imagine a game like Lara Croft, but the main character wears a Burqua.
You don’t have to imagine.
It already happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta
The Steam Reviews are amusing. Like one positive review is like “Oh, and there is a secret Zombie Survival mode!”
And a negative review is all “There is a lame pointless Zombie Survival Mode.”
she wears a hijab not a burqua.
She wouldn’t be allowed to be the main character!
Quit all at once and start your own company.
It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.
But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.
My take is that the Saudis were incredibly fortunate to be sitting on a resource that has had inelastic demand for decades. So fortunate in fact that they didn’t get good at anything else that wasn’t related to oil.
They’ve known for some time that the oil reserves can’t sustain them forever so they’ve dabbled in investments in various industries with lacklustre results.
Their recent foray into gaming is symbolic of this. An industry that bleeds cash without the creative talent that underpins it. I mean Microsoft is a good example of when ‘business’ intersects with the production of art.
Has EA really made creative games recently though? I’m looking at their recent games list and it’s mostly: Madden, EA Sports, The Sims 4 DLC, NHL, Battlefield, Plants vs Zombies, etc. Sequels and remakes basically. With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.
Like, if you’re going to buy any company, the one where you make almost the exact same game every year and everyone still buys it is probably a safe bet.
The last one that comes to mind is dragon age, and it performed terribly.
I kind of hope they make a Sims 5 that has limits on what female characters can aspire to, no LGBT+ relationships, etc, purely for the backlash that would ensue. It’s a big ecosystem that they could really screw up.
Sims 5 DLC: Arranged Marriages & Harems
Sims 5 DLC: Appropriate Attire
Sims 5 DLC: Woman Wishes & Aspirations
With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.
Yeah. No they haven’t.
EA is just a big bundle that they were able to buy at all with a huge pile of cash. Going around the globe, chasing studios that do this and that is a ton of work and takes forever and is not really a good strategy.
I think they’re betting on exactly that recurring structure of licensed sports games.
But that still depends on letting artists do some amount of stuff. For example a bunch of sports outfits may clash with strict Islam. Same for Sims.
Assholes like this have zero, ZERO, concept of why creative work is popular. Even “corporate created” work. On an extreme end, as far as they are concerned they could turn The SIMS into “Saudi Life Simulator” and people will still buy it because “Its The SIMS.”
They don’t see the creativity or the why, they just see “popular brand”.
There are plenty of other examples of this out there.
Honestly, I expected rapid enshittification when Scopely bought Pokemon Go, but it’s been better than when Niantic owned it
Tbf “better than Niantic” is a bar so low it’s a tripping hazard in hell.
This will 100% happen. Hell, I couldn’t even leave a critical google review of a nearby middle eastern hotel because of government censorship.
Google suppression is the more prolific cause of censorship, not the least in criticisms of large firms.
They are in effect running a protection racket. If a company pays them to not show search results, they won’t show them. Ie, best buy’s now since 2021 defective electronics. The only hits on social media that are even close to what you are asking for, are forums run by the manufacturers that sold you the defective merchandise.
There is no bottom to this path we are on.
That’s not how it works. You can’t pay Google to suppress links. You can only file DMCA take downs iirc. Please send me the link where I can go pay Google to remove information. I’ll wait.
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YOU can’t. I imagine large corpos have a better portal than you or I.
I’ve worked for large corporations. This doesn’t exist. It’s 100% misinformation
As if you would know, that you think they would let you in on that part of the business destroys your credibility in truth.
You are either quite mistaken and not able to see through bullshit, or covering for them. I suspect the former but idk it’s 2026 and mechanized influence ops are everywhere, including fully autonomous ones.
Still waiting on any proof other than “because I said so”.
Google removes billions of links yearly, these are through government laws, court rulings and DMCA. They maintain a transparency list of these removals. You don’t need to bribe Google, simply have your lawyers figure out a way to have it legally removed.
I have an exciting investment opportunity for you! Because you are so naive, I figured I would explain the joke as you clearly would not get it on your own judging by your comments on this thread.
Tell it to someone that doesn’t know that you have 0 credibility.
I doubt they can make EA any worse.
Ah ye of little faith. Rest assured, it can always get worse, as we will soon learn.
Time to work for someone else…
