EA is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and private equity
https://www.polygon.com/ea-owned-saudi-arabia-public-investment-fund-private-equity/
https://www.polygon.com/ea-owned-saudi-arabia-public-investment-fund-private-equity/
19 Comments
igmelonh@feddit.online · 42 pts · 29d
Left out of the headline (but in the first paragraph) is that one of the investment firms is owned by Jared Kushner, Trump's SIL.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 29d
I can't boycott any harder you guys. It's been 10 years since I've bought an EA game!
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 29d
Same but I would encourage anyone who hasn’t cancelled gamepass to do so until they pull EA from the package deal and lower costs accordingly.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
My last one was the Battlefield 1942 complete collection. So, 20 years here.
PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
You can seed ea game torrents. Not play them, just seed.
FireWire400@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
I think the last one I bought new was Burnout Paradise
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 29d
About the same for me. I'm a Sims player so I pirated what I wanted. Now I run it on steam.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 29d
When EA Origin (the EA client) became mandated for EA games, I quit purchasing EA games entirely.
No regrets. I avoided the entire lootbox thing.
Now EA is under private equity, which means, I suspect, it'll soon go the way of Toys 'R Us and Radio Shack.
Appropriate, given EA's long standing policy of buying up development companies and gutting them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 29d
They want the exclusive sports licences.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 29d
lemme guess, this bunch was also the ones gunning to 'buy' the world cup itself....
GMac@feddit.org · 9 pts · 29d
RIP
FullPenguin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d
If only.
If this is the thing that does EA in, we can all feel a little pride and accomplishment.
rah@hilariouschaos.com · 8 pts · 29d
EA Journalist Murdering 2027, coming soon!
Edit: for those unaware of how brutal Saudi Arabia is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi#Assassination
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 29d
Saudi obsession with acquiring anything related to sports is something to be studied.
Nothing wrong with loving sports, it's the way they go about it that's offputting.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 29d
I assumed that they're buying things that some people like in the hopes that they'll glean some of that like for themselves.
The Saudi family has long been a font of cruelty, ruthlessness and abuse of power, long before Mr. Bone Saw.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 29d
Can't wait for the stoning DLC for the Sims (fnord)
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 29d
A friend of mine got Paralives for her birthday, and says it has its charm.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
My Unintentional Boycott list is the envy of progressive nerds the world over.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 29d
This is such a beautiful line - I shall need to borrow it from time to time. Thank you for sharing!