The report (paywalled) claims that investors include Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). This deal, according to the outlet’s sources, could be announced as soon as next week.
Yeah, looks like I'll be permanently boycotting anything EA now.
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 117 pts · 319d
Going private? Sounds good, less pressure from shareholders.... Selling to the Saudis? Hell no! Good thing I was already boycotting them anyway
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 319d
Now introducing face ID tech that will immediately brick the computer if a woman attempts to play a driving game.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 319d
Sounds like something Stephen Miller would try to implement.
ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 319d
You mean totally normal, "sexual matador", Stephen Miller, whose wife (who is definitely not a foreign agent or beard) said inspires her every morning with his anti-left rants?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 317d
I love the one response I saw, "wouldn't that make Katie Miller a sexual bull?" Because there are so many different ways to take it from there, and many don't paint Stephen Miller in the lights he'd rather be seen publicly.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 318d
Jokes on them I’m already wear a burka over my butthole. My call me brown eye girl
FuckFascism@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 318d
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 318d
They probably want EA for the sports games so they can keep sports washing their atrocities away.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 318d
One less launcher I need to figure out in Bazzite
umbrella@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 317d
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 317d
The US doesn't chop up journalists with a saw just yet.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 317d
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
I suppose that's true. The country is not well liked in Latin America either due to all the meddling they've done (which was not properly covered in US history classes).
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 317d
As far as the world knows they bomb the journalists house killing the whole bloodline.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 317d
Strider@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 319d
Welcome to the club, did that ever since they had diarrhea all over my childhood.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 318d
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 318d
I miss Electronic Arts...
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 318d
I honestly can't remember a time when EA was well liked. Even in elementary school in the 90's, it was common for kids to refer to them as Electronic Farts.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 317d
Really? They had some bangers in the 90s, such as Road Rash and Need for Speed, as well as a ton of great games they published, like Sim City. Even their sports games were generally great.
It wasn't really until the 2000s and 2010s that their games became money grabs.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 318d
Memba full throttle
tatann@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 318d
LucasArt's Full Throttle ?
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 317d
Oh shit nevermind it's been years lol
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 318d
Take away their license NFL please for the love of god
jjfolken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 318d
With Saudis money? Not gonna happen, be prepared for another decade (at least) of EA Sports.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
Now, with extra Bone Saw.
caut_R@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 319d
I‘d certainly be interested to see if that‘d change any of their exploitative practices like FUT. Also hopefully that brings Codemasters back to old form… And please bring old online services back up cause money doesn‘t seem to be the issue then lol
anti_antidote@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 318d
I'm sorry, my brain read FUT as Fear, Uncertainty, and Trout
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 318d
caut_R@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
Yeah, but that‘s usually stakeholder-driven. Of course, it could be all the same if and when they go private, but this move just seems unprecedented to me so it‘s interesting to observe if it does have any impact in this regard.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 319d
EA is still around?