[satirical fake news] Jared Kushner surprised $55 Billion Electronic Arts buyout does not include $10 Billion DLC

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/jared-kushner-surprised-55-billion-electronic-arts-buyout-does-not-include-10-billion-dollar-dlc/

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/theonion@sh.itjust.works/t/2790390

Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Jared Kushner were shocked when they found out their $55 Billion buyout of EA did not include the new, downloadable content. “We should have seen this coming,” stated Kushner. “It’s a classic EA move, the base purchase is never enough without the bug fixes, patches, and eventual DLC. Now EA has the upper-hand.” [...]

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thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 348d (3 replies)

Even their buyouts have DLCs? Come the fuck on.

runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 348d (1 reply)

This is a satire news site, similar to the Onion

njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d

Do you think that's why he made that joke?

hopesdead@startrek.website · 7 pts · 348d

Next you’ll hear they need to subscribe to the battle pass for new games they wish to own the IP for.

alessandro@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 346d (1 reply)

I would add [satirical fake news] to the title, just to be sure

recursive_recursion@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 346d

Fair enough👍

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 3 pts · 347d (1 reply)

Yea this is satire, it should be moderated out of pcgaming.

TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 347d

That's a DLC feature.