https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ea-private-deal-buyout-video-game-maker-808aefec>EA sold to Saudis>Ubisoft sold to Tencent>Bethesda and Activision sold to MicrosoftAll that's left is 2K. After GTA 6 doesn't hit the demand of "half the earth's population must buy it at $150" they'll sell too.The age of American gaming is over.
>>721744760Bring back Burnout
what will the consequences of epic being sold to the middle east have for the gaming industry?
>>721744760musliman conned into buying garbage
>>721744908China has owned Epic for like 15 years.
I mean they'll end woke'ism in gaming.But they'll replace it with some other shit we hate anyway.
Roblox
does this mean we can't play if we don't convert to islam
>>721745039>>721744908Saudis specifically don't care about actually making quality things, just having "the best" and most. All of their sports leagues are garbage for example, because they don't care about actually putting on good games. They care about "look at all of the talent we have, look at the stadium we built"
>>721745151You'll just have to pay the Jizya subscription.
I don't have a subscription to the Wall
>>721744760As-salamu alaykum EA
>>721744760Smart. First they buy irl sports and then the licenced sports vidya publisher.
>>721745039>I mean they'll end woke'ism in gaminglol
>>721744760>Ubisoft >American Do you thirdies just spew every ignorant thing going through your malnourished minds?
>>721745298Non paywall articlehttps://www.reuters.com/business/electronic-arts-nears-roughly-50-billion-deal-go-private-wsj-reports-2025-09-26/
>>721744760>an American company is going private>a French company made a subsidiary with an investment from a Chinese company>an American publisher sold to...an American company>the age of American gaming is overThe Saudis trying to whitewash themselves with cash is always funny but this is hardly the most interesting thing.
>>721745039No you'll just get browncoded slop akin to Andrew Tate TikTok. Saudis have been liberalizing their country and whoring out to Jews btw
>>721744760RIP in pepperoni to Bioware I guess.
GO SAUDI GO BROKE
EA has been nothing but dogshit for over a decade, who cares
>>721744760habibi remove the gay shit plox
>>721745712All arab royalty have been trying to get their people to embrace a more liberal islam because they know their economy is propped up by oil and nothing else, and if there's another global crisis they'll literally lose their heads.
>linking to paywalled articlesWHY THE FUCK DO YOU DO THIS SHIT
>investors pull out last minute>ea crashes and burnsWouldn't that be funny... again
>>721746617>tech illiterateWHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LIKE THIS
Stop being retardedhttps://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
>>721744760Generals 2 soonGLA about to be overpoweredGoatmetal soundtrack
>>721744760>go private>Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fundidgi
>>721744760New FIFA every month, LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOL!
GAMERS ARE IN CONTROL
>>721744760Finally, the death of EA.Good, fuck em.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/jtreaflDtNZE1Lo94qsNUg/Is it autism?
>>721744760Checks out with how mudslimes tend to chimp out with Fifa
>>721744760Does this mean spore revival?
>>721745549he probably meant to say "Western" instead of "American" but didn't realize Ubisoft is French
Nice, fuck EA, hopefully the Saudis fire everyone and replace them all with jeets who'll run the company into the ground.
>>721745712>broooo women can now DRIVE in saudi arabia provided they have a male chaperone with them at all times they are so progressive dude
>>721744760Honestly that's the least offensive thing to happen
>>721745248Hence the weird fucking inclusion of Ronaldo in the latest Fatal Fury
and here i thought Sony had a chance to buy EA
KekEvery year a new battlefield then
>>721745039You're in for such a rude awakening seer
>>721745039>EA games no longer woke>EA games are now islamicThis would be kinda funny
Uhh.. Activist investor bros?? How do we come back from this...
>>721748951Do what the rest of them are doing. Invest in the infrastructure and worm your way to a seat
https://youtu.be/AgVKSHRaQMY
>>721744760Didn't that almost happen with Embracer and at the last moment the arabs pulled out leaving Embracer holding the bag on a bunch of projects that either got cancelled or took DEI money just to stay afloat like KCD2?
>>721749039All they had to do was not make saint's row as bad as it was. Maybe embracer wouldn't have crashed as hard as they did.
>>721745039We will get non woke lootbox and gacha games. Yippee.
>>721744760Inshallah brother, now CR7 will forever reign supreme.
>>721748627that's kino tho, weird he doesn't do the TSUUUUUUU
>>721749186So the games will be the same, just without the woke?Because every EA game is already full of lootboxes and gacha, especially all the sports shit.
Embracer Group bros... that was supposed to be us...
>>721749225>that's kino thoredditors fuck off
>>721749317weird cameos are fun
Its EA, why should we give a fuck?
>>721745039Bröther, they will do everything they can to make money. They know time is running against them and their oil money won't last forever and their religion is second fiddle if it comes to cash.
>>721748628All of EA's slop is going to be PS5/6 exclusive, Playstation is the only console in Saudi Arabia.
Thread got me demoralized im fleeing to china they keep showing me that ching chong city they must want me there for some reason.
>>721749465>Data from the Saudi Communications and Technology Commission (CST) shows PlayStation with a significantly higher usage rate compared to its competitors, being 5 times higher than Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam combined. AAAIIIIEEEE
Saudi and chinks are the lesser evil compared to the west
>>721749908>thirdie hands typed this post
>>721749772Unironically they want you there to fuck their women and have like 10 puritan work ethic babies. It isn't so bad a deal if you don't care about freedom of information or speech or thought.
>>721748517and now they can cosplay
>>721744760>The age of American gaming is over.Is it? There's a LOT of money left on the table when it comes to the traditional straight, male audience that has been discarded over the past decade but something tells me they will all just be rubber-stamping more wokeshit
>>721749908lol if you thought credit based economy was bad wait till you're in indentured servitude
>>721749312we'll have to sell...another studio...
>>721750093Nta but from the historical documents we have. The jews didn't have it so bad under the pharaoh. They were even paid. Killing cats and getting people sick was and still is nasty behavior no matter how hard they try to re-frame it.
>>721744760I for one welcome our new Saudi overlords. They're doing this with some fighting game and other e-sports leagues as well. Of course the usual tranny TO apologists are vehemently against it because muh alphabet people. Selling out was fine before when the sponsors and owners were waving fag flags.
>>721744760>fuck up for decades>kill all good studios>get bought out by retardsWhat a relief this must be
Saudi is part of the buyout. The others are Kushner and Durban.
new mirrors edge is back on the menu
>>721749403dead spacebullet storm alice burnout
>>721748863>you can now beat women in-game for acting like a slut
>>721745039they'll waste a trillion dollars creating the next "line city" of videogames, only to abandon it a couple of years lateras long as the current people working on ea suffer, i am ok with it
Ronaldo with stats over 200 in the next FIFA.
they've been rich forever. how come only now they are trying to take over the entertainment industry?
I mean, they are circumcised anyway so it's not a big leap
>>721750701The fact the industry is dead is an open secret, Kotick has been saying the model is done on interviews for years. Everyone's gonna cash out.
>>721750701The youth grew up with video games and japanese media was always big everywhere outside of america. This shouldn't come as a surprise. Best way to put it is "ARAB MONEY"
>>721750701It's cool to see people get killed and burned alive, so Saudi is cool now.
>>721750701they are trying to diversify their economy because they are going bankruptit wont work
>>721745039Likely but if i cant enjoy gaming so should not woke people. i hate them so much.
>people expecting anything besides what currently is profitableIts going to be a Sports and Battlefield company, nothing else.The idea Saudi revives some IP that doesn't make money is hilarious. Ontop of that, its more likely they just strip the company apart and just sell shit off and EA dies and no one uses the IPs anyways
>>721751460saudis bought snk and managed to get a new fatal fury out, anything can happen
>>721751346They're not "going bankrupt" While I don't like the saudi's that's the same rhetoric some of you peddle on to the masses over china and that's anything but true.
>>721750701>Old kings didn't care about entertainment>Young guy comes into power>He likes entertainment and knows everyone that's young loves it>Invests shit ton of moneyIt really is that fucking simple, retards. Fatal Fury CotW was good but the marketing was extremely bad. Putting in Ronaldo and some literal who musician was fucking retarded, and that fucking ishowspeed commercial didn't help.
>>721745890We'll see. I personally think that they will continue with the next ME, regardless. If they have a job the day after the release, will be entirely up to themselves.
>>721751460Do you think the Saudis are actually into games to MAKE money and not just burn it? They literally do not need the money.
>>721744760Can't wait to fly into the twin towers when the nyc map for Skate is released
>>721744760I'm okay with this.
>>721752150>They literally do not need the money.They literally quite do because oil is not gonna be around forever. They have like 10, maybe 20 years top to turn things around.
>>721744760Well damn. Ok.Has EA even realeased anything noteworthy during the last decade or so?
>>721749124And Gollum.It's a shame because the studio that made Gollum had made the two Blackguards games that were pretty good, though rather basic, TB-RPGs. The arsonist dwarf was great.
>>721752254We said this 20-30 years ago as well. They're fine. The youth finally grew up and they love all this crap. It shouldn't be a surprise.
>>721752254>They have like 10, maybe 20 years top to turn things around.people have been saying this for how many decades?
>>721752150They're trying to transform their economy because they know they can't rely on oil forever.
>>721751573You mean the prince who is a fan of SNK bought it.
>>721752254>>721752381>>721752389Its less oil and more people swapping to green with projects that will be done in that timeframe. Especially with AI energy concerns bringing up nuclear as an option. If we ever get friendly trade with China and BYD can sell their cheap EVs here people will buy alot of them
>>721744760Dead Space 4 starring RonaldoMirrors Edge 3 starring RonaldoDantes Inferno 2 starring RonaldoDungeon Keeper 3 starring RonaldoSyndicate 2 starring Ronaldo
>OIL IS RUNNING OUT TRUST THE PLAN!
>>721745086Hello Mr. Schizo https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/jtreaflDtNZE1Lo94qsNUg/
I don't play western games lmao
>>721747449Roblox is in fact autism so whoever speaks about roblox is also autistic by default. Me included of course.
>>721752534Looking forward to playing as him in Skate
>>721750701Saudi Arabia's sole (99% export) is oil with their second biggest export being sports drinks? Given that their country is just one giant sandy shithole that can't grow anything they kinda need something else. It's not like they have any skillsets either since 70% of their population are basically rich NEETS.
>>721744760So is Apex going to collab with Ronaldo now?
>>721747229as in it won't be publicly traded on the stock market anymore
>>721752570are you dumb?you know most mines and oil fields get shut down because over time as you start depleting the resource it becomes cost-inefficient to get them out of the ground, not because they run out of the resourcesif anything, people will go after greenland/antarctica for oil instead of spending huge captial in saudi for less returns in the future
>>721748627What
>>721752530>If we ever get friendly trade with China and BYD can sell their cheap EVs here people will buy alot of themNever gonna happen with any US administration in the near future, and it's funny you say nuclear as an option when we have literal boomer retards demolishing old reactors and opting for oil instead because of the oil lobby. Not even the EU is safe from liberal boomer retardation.
>>721752834They don't want you to know this but oil is a renewable resource
>>721745039>I mean they'll end woke'ism in gaming.lol, lmaoall sexy women will be censored.
>>721752902yeah, in a million year time scale
>>721753016What sexy women? That job is already completed
>>721752834their crude oil resources are actually very shallow (comparatively), it'll never stop being profitable to extract locallybesides even if that were true, arabs made massive investments in africa to steal their oil before the chinese do, you can't win kuffar
>>721750529That kinda already happened.The Saudis contracted Tabata (FFXV director) for a big, AI-made AAA game about Saudi Arabia. The project is crashing right now.
>>721752865I brought it up cause Microsoft got control of Three Mile Island for 20 years. The only way they can power these massive AI data centers financially is nuclear reactors
>>721745039What are the recent examples? I only know SNK and they don't seem to censor shit. What will they even try to push?
>>721753016this is not a problem for arab womenthey arent flat-chested like other ethnicitiesislam has bred arab women to be very voluptous
>>721753219that whole region of the world has beautiful women.
>>721745039can't win
>>721753152>The Saudis contracted Tabata (FFXV director) for a big, AI-made AAA game about Saudi Arabia. The project is crashing right now.Why not spend that money on making an indigenous game development industry instead of relying on fucking hacks? Are they retarded?
Gaming is saved
>america refuses to look for alternatives for oil for decades>the hell muslim timmy gonna do?
>>721753185Yeah, I can see AI power needs forcing nuclear to become commonplace again in the US.
>>721744760This Saudi money laundering scheme is going far
>>721744760bonEsAw sports: It's in the game (unless you offend us, in which case Allah have mercy on your soul, as our bonesaws won't)!
>>721748517>Bro its no big deal its just women voting, what could it hurt?
>>721753449thats pretty based actually
>>721753386Holy retard.
wake me when they, tencent, etc actually start saying "no" to these woke nutjob dev teams until then it's just business as usual
>>721744760>The age of American gaming is over>when they're conning chinks and mudslimes into paying trillions for their slop factories If anything we're about to witness a renaissance.
>>721753190Of course you are correct. The country that forces women to wear burkas will put all the naked sexy ladies you could ever want in their games. Now praise Allah to continue.
>>721753307Foreign corporations have the Saudis by the balls, they want their foreign workforce in Saudi Arabia, so the Saudi government has to play ball.Also Saudis are fucking retarded and lazy, so when they make games it's Jeet tier dogshit. The biggest Saudi-owned game dev studio in Saudi Arabia is Steer Studios, owned by Savvy Games, a PIF company. The studios are headquartered in an ultra luxurious office in pic related. They've been around for about 6 years now and all they've made is 2 or 3 shitty mobile games. The c-suites for these studios are all Ubisoft UAE layoffs.
>>721753639Well, since they can't see them irl, it makes sense to make them digital and avoid sinning, no?
>>721753639>The country that forces women to wear burkas will put all the naked sexy ladies you could ever want in their gamesKeep acting smug when they didn't censor Mai or any other sexy female character. Meanwhile the West loves to make ugly cunts because they hate sexy women.
>>721753543most of those productions were already underway you can see the contrast with games like marvel rivals
>>721753480>women voted God Emperor Trump in office TWICEwtf I love women now?!?!?!?!
>>721753686Guess it's a lost cause then. If the government can't even force their local population to not be fucking retarded, then it's over.
>>721745039I've watched boxing for more then a decade , been a major fan, and let me tell you what I've seen since Turki al Sheikh has done since the Saudi's have entered the boxing scene as a major player:We got fights we wanted. No more waiting around, we got some good fights that wouldn't have happened or would've happened much further down the road. But the boxing events became shows, big production promos, concerts, and other stuff. Making a boxing event a show isn't a bad idea, but the shows within the event weren't what the audience wanted, it was what the Saud's wanted/thought we wanted and wouldn't take our opinion into consideration. Then they started lowkey pushing this Saudi boxer into their televised cards. This kid, I don't even know his name, isn't bad but he isn't good. And he's definitely not good enough to be on the televised card but he is because he's getting pushed onto us by the Sauds. So with Saudi investment you might get some cool things but they'll definitely push weird things onto your plate as well.
>>721754043>they didn't censor Maithey didin china
>>721753219>islam has bred arab women to be very voluptousWrong. That's the power of having a diet that's 90% sunflower and sesame oils.
>>721754407FAKE NEWSCHINA NUMBER ONEAMERICAN SEETHE
>>721746378>IT'S TÜRKOVER
>>721744760>The age of American gaming is over.americans ruined it for everyone though so...
>>721744760>Burquas on all female characters from now on>all games will have "death to Israel" subplot
>>721754783>all games will have "death to Israel" subplotbased?
>>721754709The woke don't represent America at all.
>>721744760__ ____ __ _____
>>721754783>>all games will have "death to Israel" subplotBASED.
>>721745039Why end wokeism for the west?
>>721754236This. Saudis give the people what they want they have the money to make it happen. Plus they love to make their son's happy and all their sons are chuddies so gaming is going to be saved.
>>721755021sure they do. (You) might not agree but it's what's broadcasted.
>>721749225I'm pretty sure that and the dj fag alienated the core audience and that's why the game flopped.
>>721755261And what's broadcasted is under control of another country that's NOT America.
>>721753307I might be remembering this a bit wrong but Neom itself is having so much trouble getting built outside of the logistical nightmare that it is because they have to import foreign labor to do things like build parts of it, build the structures, or do menial tasks. The Saudis themselves are believing they're above it and refuse to take jobs like that because it's "below" them. It's leading to them having to import people who could reasonably do those jobs in Saudi Arabia both from the skilled and unskilled sectors.
>>721752534Mass Effect 4 starring Ronaldo.
>>721755261tekken survived negan, why couldnt fatal fury survive this? just an excuse for an already niche game.
>>721755524Tekken is a way bigger game and series than Fatal Fury will ever be. This was supposed to be their big comeback like SF4 and they fucked up hard.
>>721755368right right and when eu tries to pass local ownership of media outlets ((((someone)))) cries
>>721755021>The woke don't represent America at all.you fuckwads have been saying this since 2016 and it's more prevalent than ever
>>721755059I don't play this game, but reading about it, it's insane that they broke their easy money printer to own the chuds>most popular game mode is gacha>you buy packs with real money to get the football players you like>at one point they decide to add female players>they have equal stats with males, even the football legends>teams are now mixed gender>gacha pool is also now MASSIVELY diluted, so if you wanted specific players, tough shit, here are some roasties you never heard of>even normalfags have had enough, and stop buying packs >...>EA is now selling out to a private equity firm
>>721755785maybe fatal fury fans shouldn't have been such bitches. I don't know about it, is Ronaldo OP? even if, just ban him from tournaments. literal non-issue. was fatal fury at the front before?
>>721756007It's not even about Rolando being OP, it's about how Fatal Fury fucked up the roster so hard that people stopped caring.
>>721744908Unironically better than what we have now.
>>721756089alright, I don't know about that. I imagined they added him as an overpowered character but rest was kept.
>>721750050>There's a LOT of money left on the table when it comes to the traditional straight, male audience that has been discarded over the past decadeThere's a lot more in people who will play gacha games (Asians) and FGC fags (South Americans).
>>721750006>It isn't so bad a deal if you don't care about being humansounds like a great deal for /v/ desu
Saudi are anti woke they are based.
>>721750006>freedom of information or speech or thought.Its not like I have those things now.
>>721755489
>>721756280when have they recently censored a woke game for international audiences so far nothing except retarded choices like Ronaldo
>>721755919the new battlefield decided that half of the playable soldiers should be female too and their voice lines are fucking obnoxiousthose idiots don't seem to realize that some things only appeal to men and trying to put women into the mix just fucks it up
>>721748627>It's realWhat the fuck?
>>721756280all talk until they actually deliver with upcoming games
>>721752530Breh even my environment sustainability prof said they found far more fossil fuels in the US than expected and it’s no longer really considered non-renewable.
>>721744760The thing is that saudis LOVE gaming, and they don't really care about squeezing every last bit of profit out of something because they have their own infinite money glitch. Expect some vanity projects and series revived simply because it's some prince's favourite (particularly racing series).
>>721756583But I like playing as a woman
>>721756480
>>721755524At least that's a guy with a blunt object that bonks people around. Having a football player and dj fighting is just too retarded
>>721753185Don’t forget they need an absolute fuck load of water to cool them too. All M$ is good for is censored ai images anyways :(
>>721753280How can you tell beneath the rug? Witch could look like Gary Busey under that fuckin' tarp.
>>721757012they don't all wear it Anon
>>721744760FUCKING PAJEETS, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO KILL EA, NOT SAVE THEM
>>721756984I think ai has legitimate uses but making low quality smut is not one of them.
>>721744760The Saudis are probably going to buy WWE too
>>721756912nah
>>721744760>saudiswill they let bioware continue making troon slop?
>>721745632>>721745248>The Saudis trying to whitewash themselves with cash iit's less that and more the gulf countries are worried we hit peak oil with all the electric cars and shit and are trying to convert to like a tourism and tech based economy because they don't want to go back to being got fuckers if the price of oil falls
>>721744908Did you misread the headline?
>>721755524>Negan>guy hardened by living through brutal zombie apocalypse and having to fight every day of his life for survival>Ronaldo>pampered twiggy gay manchild that falls to the ground rolling in pain if someone so much as breathes aggressively in a 15ft radius around him
>>721744760thank God, American gaming has been dogshit for the better part of two decades
>>721745549you're a third worlder
>>721757710yeah it's funny right?
>>721757603Jokes on them, the deserts will be completely unlivable with the coming heat of climate change. All of these sand people are going to be evacuating to snowy mountain countries as it'll be the only liveable terrain.
>>721757916what snowy mountain where there's whole of europe with declining birthrates
>>721756583>speak three languages>play BF V>can hear women screaming in agony in english, french and german>pleading to not wanting to die and shit>they're all so loud as if DICE intentionally tuned up their ingame volume to make sure you hear them>according to DICE I hate women because I don't want to play a game where I kill them and hear them dyingTo this day none of it has made sense for me.
>>721744908the women in bioware games will still be ugly but will all be wearing burkas nowso a net positive
>>721758002SARR YOU ARE OF MAKING TOO MUCH TYPOS SARR
>>721757916global warming isn't real, retard. also like dubai is fine because it's on the coast. all the saudi cities are in retarded spots though
>>721758002>implying any of them are going to let in hordesnb4 hurr immigration no retard, I mean literal entire nations fleeing death by heat exhaustion.
>>721757881America is first world, yurop is third world
>>721758220Stop pretending to be retarded on 4chan you dickless nitwit.
>>721758297global warming isn't real and if anything the desert is more hospitable now than ever before in human history>>721758378only dickless trannies believe in global warming, retarded tranny
>>721744760And just like that, all EA games are coming to Switch 2
>>721758297yeah so, where do you think they're gonna go? d&d mountain people or just move to europe?
never played any ea games, ea ips are normie tier cattle edition
>>721758543Flood across borders and create problems on an unimaginable scale.
>>721758451When I was a kid we used to get snow up to my knees. When I was a teenager the snow was up to my ankles. Now there's no snow at all. I don't care what angle you're paddling but things have changed.
>>721758604And we'll let them in
>>721744760I've got no love for the Saudis (9/11 never forget), but maybe they'll clean out Bioware, and Mass Effect 4 will have a chance at being good.
>>721758694global warming isn't real. according to al gore florida should be under water by now. was the little ice age in the early 1800s also manmade, tranny?
>>721755849Woke doesn't represent America but the vocal minority who pretend to speak for America are woke.
>>721758940>I've got no love for the Saudis (9/11 never forget)don't tell him
>>721757298TKO is selling it already or is Saudi buying TKO?
>>721758940They'll probably just shut it down insteadAnd a bunch of other teams that don't make live service slopIt's been EA's trajectory for a long time anyway
>EA who cares. The last game I bought from them was titanfall 2.
>>721744760A behemoth like EA going private is actually super interesting. It could mean they start behaving in a more strategic manner, rather than the manic LINE MUST GO UP mentality that a publicly traded company is typically pushed toward, which is a large cause of many of EA's worst habits.Still, I don't expect much to change overnight.
>>721744908Ronaldo gets a higher FIFA rating
>>721759194idk but the rumble and mania are going to be in saudi arabia. I'm assuming the saudis want to buy
>>721758535It's going to be funny how all the 'technical difficulties' in getting their games to work on the Switch 2 will suddenly disappear once the purchase is made.
>>721756480>we'll TSUUUUUUU ok?
>>721759028why can't I throw snowballs like I could 20 years ago?
>>721744760At least there will be no more faggotry in their games. This is a good thing to me.
>>721744760>The age of American gaming is over.fucking finallytook long enough
>>721759349probably because you are a homosexual
Fuck Saudi owned shit. Heard they own wrastling now, been looking into wrastling lately since Raja Jackaon murdered that hillbilly Sicko Stew. Seems ICP's JCW Juggalo Championship Wrestling is the only decent promo running. They have a Kane parody named Cokane and his special movie is the Coke Slam it's the choke slam but he powers up with cocaine first it's based he wears Kane's classic red uniform but it's White. Problem is the choke slam itself was kinda weak he's not a MONSTER like Kane but the potential for fun is there theyre doing coke and saying FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK uncensored etc.
>>721756480I'll take that over BATTLETITS
>>721748627I bought it for Salvatore wish we got more stupid characters that make no sense
>>721745039>I mean they'll end woke'ism in gamingThey will replace women with tea boys, wtf are you talking about?
>>721759407my homosexuality has that much of an impact that I warm up the local area? damn, someone should make a power plant out of me.
>>721747257looks like troonified steam profile
>>721744760>EA and good news in one sentencenothing involving EA can ever be good, except for its dissolution
>>721756897And that's something you'll never be
>>721759224I think it's hard to say. The impetus behind cash grab garbage like that is pleasing public investors, who want constant short term growth by necessity. A privately owned company can think longer term than that. Obviously they still want growth, but it doesn't have to be "PROFITS MUST DOUBLE EVERY SINGLE YEAR OR ELSE" insanity.
>>721752707kino
>>721744760Protip: this will not result in more based games. They're not interested in our gay culture wars, they're interested in money. And if putting trannies and blacks in your games means money, then trannies and blacks you'll get.
>>721756480kino
>>721760252That's the thing: trannies and blacks don't make more money.
>>721753016they dont censor their mediajust real women which is based
>>721757916It's fine, MBS will build his retarded mirror city in the desert and this will be solved somehow
>>721760064going private works for creative industries like gaming, companies are no longer beholden to line must go up every quarter and actually focus on making good quality games. I see it as a positive thing.
>>721760064But they'll be pressured to pay off their massive debt instead
>>721745439I'd rather have women in hijabs than fags
>>721760826Yes, and that's a long term thing. It's like paying off a mortgage versus paying off a legion of loansharks.
>>721754236That's Saudi ownership in a nutshell. They give you what they want but they also give themselves what they want. New Fatal Fury game but it has CR7 in it. Ask WWE fans whether they'd rather Saudis or the TKO thing that actually happened. If they're looking to cash out those are the two directions it can go.
>>721760252>they're interested in moneyyes, and money, cheap loans from the likes of blackrock is the reason why they included poz, trannies, strunk indapendynt wymminz, etc.>>721760812except private companies have to keep the lights on and invest in modernizing themselves to stay at the top of their game
>>721754407>in chinathat's traditional chink though (i.e. not china)
>>721755919>>teams are now mixed genderi dind't know it was that grimm
>>721744760They should revive the Hellgate series, like a prologue of some sort, like Hellgate: Camp Twin Peaks, and while power armor is good and all, I think the missing piece of the pussle, I mean, puzzle are the collectible characters you can recruit.
>>721761269the games industry is mature now and there's no more growth. At this point it's like squeezing blood from a stone so going private and pandering to fans seems to be the optimal solution for video game companies.
>>721757298Moar Kairi
Who cares, think the last time I had a EA logo in my game was Mass Effect3
>>721761269Keeping the lights running is incredibly easy compared to the continual growth demanded by public investors.
>>721744760>nearnothing happened
>>721761441Yeah, when they segregated, no one cared about female teams
>>721744760This is the fate the Western AAA industry deserves.
>>721753307I'm not going to look at AAA because AAA is a joke, I'm going to talk about indie.If you're a non-American, you need >money>time>ability to see through your dream>dream of making gamesIt takes a specific mindset to make games, and that mindset only really happens in western countries. Everyone else is money/family-orienteded.
>>721761703So you're saying there's hope?
>>721744760>NearI hope they do it
>>721760252The word IF is decisive here. They give no shits about Mr. Caliwokies LGTB agenda, so why would they support tons of wokie blunders that bleed money?
>>721754461My wife is fa-I mean "thic", and it's because of rice/soda. I'm taking away her rice and making her eat her fruits and meats.
>>721761747No. The Saudis will only further the enshittification the Western AAA industry has led for the past 2 decades. They will forever focus on hyper-realistic graphics and homogenized game design above all us.
>>721752842Yes, he's actually a playable fighter in it. Its the main thing people bitch about as to why not buying the game.They also had some literally who DJ as a playable in it, but he ended up being kinda based and fun, while fitting oddly well in the story.
>>721762079above all else*
>>721762309Ace Attorney, Metal Gear Solid, Bloodborne and Persona 5 belong on the right.
>>721762309As if Persona doesn't belong on the right.>>721762719No just Persona since that fundamentally fucked up other series with their cancerous faggotry.Even at their worse MGS or AA never did that, and its mostly people being retards tying to soulsshit without realizing why it worked.
>>721762079That's basically the definition of AAA, yes. The Saudis aren't going to make EA suddenly turn into a soulful indie studio. The question is if it'll steer EA towards more palatable, safe blandness, rather than outright offensively bad trash.
>>721762309yeah japan never has gacha- I mean microtransactions
>>721744760>headline includes "could" Not real news, just speculative clickbait until further notice. Journalism isn't what it used to be, eh.
>>721744760i don't play EA games
>>721744760This is fantastic news. Private companies are always run better than public.
>>721763304Bloodborne was part of Sony's early push away from Japan. MGS and AA are obvious.
>only thing that changes, is that now the female soccer players wear Hijabs
>>721759028>global warming isn't real.>according to al gore florida should be under water by nowNTA but i don't get this, how is one popular guy being wrong about shit supposed to mean the entire idea of global warming (Which is a bad name but wtv) is fake?
Battlefield x C&CNOW!!!!!!!!!
>>721764419New York was supposed to be underwater tooCan climatefags even get one thing right?
>>721764419because global warming is a jewish scam to force socialsim and gun control onto the US so they can send more money to the mega rich
>>721744760>privately ownedcool>saudi ownedThe way they fucked with CotW made me realise how bad it is to be owned by third world retards with too much money and 0 sense or taste.
>>721765228What's CotW
Oh well. Indie has been surpassing AAA for a while now. It's about time they die our and indies move into their spots. Then the cycle repeats.
>>721744760maybe... maybe there is hope for heterosexuality after all
>>721745039Nothing has really changed from the old times.But the battlefield has changed.The eternal battle between Islam and Christianity goes on. Just evil vs evil and only the winner is "good" everything else is just casualty
>>721744760microsoft is an american company and ubisoft was never american to begin with
>>721765301city of the wolves. its been mentioned in this thread already, the way it was advertised felt like it was directed by a third world normie who thought plastering football celebrities and YouTube ecelebs on it would result in a mega hit. They overspent on marketing and it predictably flopped so hard the CEO of SNK had to step down.
>>721765746>plastering football celebritiesGood. Based.
>>721759542R.A. Salvatore got in a fighting game?!
>>721765334Indies are derivative slopThe rogue like genre in particular is soulless and lazy
>>721754236>women in games are hot again>they all get shittedyeah it's over. I hate shitskins far more than trannies and feminists
>>721758035>can hear women screaming in agony in english, french and germanhuh maybe I should give Battlefield a shot after all
AIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE USAID HELP MEEEEE
>>721757603they are especially fucked if oil goes down. They could have used their money to research and development of solar panels and transport of energy as one thing they do have are empty desserts with lots of sunlight. Except they can't, cause the people who actually sell oil like shell for instance would genuinely send hitmen to their doorstep if they even dared to damage their bottom lines. Saudia arabia is genuinely fucked cause they are implementing the worst of ideas like tourism in middle of fucking nowhere nobody cares to visit and even if they did have sense to utilize one thing they do have i.e. lots of land and sunlight then big corporations and jews running the world would just fucking kill them. And not to mention the impending crisis that will inevitably lead to civil unrest and get all the royalty and anyone in oil industry beheaded.
>>721766321https://youtu.be/Hr_my17s6_g
how the fuck and WHY the fuck are the saudis buying everything related to gaming recently?
>>721744760>The age of American gaming is over.thank god
>>721760534all movies that get screened in saudi have the NSFW stuff, even kisses, removed. go be a smelly shill somewhere else.
>>721755021the puritans were literally the woke in funny hats
>Next Mass Effect and Dragon Age games wont have any gay shit>/v/ thinks this is bad???????
>>721767506Money is the only thing that matters, companies have no morals, they don't care about you, they only care about money.Guess who has infinite money and a burning desire to fill their regions lack of culture?
>>721744760If this means we'll get more Dead Space and it will be this time free of anything troon then yeah, I will want the jihadists to buy EA.
>>721767702Yes, ass erect and dragon age existing at all is bad.
Fellow Hamadi's, do you think Allah would approve of this deal?
>>721765228yurop's also third world>>721766530solar is fucking garbage and retard. also there is no way anyone would put solar panels in saudi arabia when north africa is closer to yuropastan. like there isn't any way you could transport the power efficiently from SA without going through syria and turkey and shit and if you wanted to transport it as hydrogen it would still have to pass through the suez and solar panel cocksuckers hate hydrogen because that plan would actually work and not reduce living conditions like solar and windmills would. If you were planning on using solar it would make way more sense to build it in moracco, algeria, tunisia or egypt where you could ship it via hydrogen without using the suez or I guess via wire through the straight of gibralter though that would be expensive a shit. It's like in the US isn't anything in the southern desert states anyway but you would need to build new transmission lines which would be way more expensive than basically any other option. the only other thing you could do is crack hydrogen on the gulf coast and then ship it via the mississippi and going around florida to the east coast
>>721767506>everybody thinks we're a bunch of third world terrorists>everybody loves japan despite them declaring war on America within living memory>how did they manage it?videogames and anime.
>>721761442Insane bodies on these broads, goddamn.
>>721744908They mandated that SNK make the titties of the girls bigger, so take that for what you will
>>721768128culturally, europe is still lightyears beyond any other continent. you cant fake 100s of years of cultural inheritance
>>721767754>money is all that mattersSadly it can't buy: common sense, authenticity and culture, move and/or terraform thousands of kilometers of worthless dessert and apparently proper sewage system.
>>721755261That's not the reason why that game flopped, you fucking retard. It looks like shit and it does just the bare minimum in terms of content and netcode for a modern FG. Mechanics are also too obtuse.
>>721768379True but irrelevant. Companies and individuals will continue selling out because they have no morals. In this case it's unfortunate but it's not like EA has made good games for many years, oh well.
>>721768128yes there are better places for it but sure as hell it would still be a better plan than tourism.
>>721768373yurop is a third world country with no culture and no AC. they are culturally behind the US and Japan/Korea. yurop has been an irrelevant country since they lost WWII
>>721768638how would you physically transport the power to yurop from saudi arabia?
>>721768753as you said, hydrogen. Or hell, the royal family there isn't known for common sense so they could spend all their money on giant underwater cable lol.
>>721769039a. solar trannies don't want hydrogenb. why build it there and not north africa?
They better not throw a carpet over my alien wife
>>721769213a. royal cunts have authority and money so if they wanted hydrogen then solar trannies could ack themselves for what they careb. same reason why so many offshores manufacturing to china, they are just cheaper.If Arabia could provide better service than what Morocco has then might as well be a bit further; they do have the money and resources to compete but they chose not to (and most likely aren't allowed either).
>>721757603>tourism>in a barren desert>with sharia law
>>721749465>>721749821Xisters? Our response?
>>721769437the solar trannies are the ones in yurop not in saudi arabia, they would be the ones buying the energy and there's no way it would be cheaper to ship energy from saudi arabia than from north africa. not only does no one live in most of north africa anyway, literally no one fucking lives in spanish sahara
>>721744760>You WILL make Titanfall 3, whether you like it or not.based sand people
It's like people forgot how bad things got with EA just a few years ago. Their whole "anti-chud" campaign with Battlefield at least wouldn't happen under the Saudis. It can't get any fucking worse than what's already been.
>>721769589they have these weird fake cities made on oil money and they don't enforce the sharia shit on tourists
>>721769589You can get anything you want in Dubai if you're not Muslim.
>>721765494You have a very narrow view of things. The real battle is the descendants of the Pharisees (Rabbinic Judaism) and the real Jews (Christians)
>>721750494None of those games had a future.
>>721744760>The sandniggers will double down on semenslurping divegrass and completely shitcan NHL and Madden cause there's no value to themIt's so over
>>721759028>global warming isn't realThen why is it getting warmer everywhere? Why are sea levels rising? Give me actual reasons for these phenomenons if it isn't global warming.
>>721770498NHL has been been basically abandoned for years. Madden still prints money for them.
>>721750469>The others are KushnerIt's over
>>721769303>draw a human>color her light gray>she's an alien nowstar wars fell off
>>721770731>star wars fell offIt didn't. Was always shit.
>>721769927Its cheaper to manufacture in China than locally despite the distance. Its about the existing infrastructure. Yes, morroco is better from a logistical viewpoint but its not impossible for Arabia to create infrastructure that negates Morrocos advantage. Difficult? yes, but not impossible.And the trannies could be ignored (like always) if it means that people in charge get paid more. But they won't be paid better, there are people who will ensure of that, hence why I said that Arabia mostly likely can't even if they tried to compete.
>>721744760>private equity firmIt's finally over, EA is dead.
>>721748863If that allows me to kill women and fags I'll play it
>>721770617it isn't
>>721770868when was the last time EA was alive
>>721750469But who are Silver Lake? Apparently they're also part of tiktok acquisition.
>>721770840people make shit in china because they have shitty labor laws and a ton of bodies. you wouldn't need a ton of bodies or labor laws, just land and no one lives in north africa
>>721770617Deforestation and sprawling urban environments full of concrete. Plus, if this was an actual existential concern, the Western elites would be waging a Warhammer 40K-tier genocide on the third-world for their pollution, environmental rape and overpopulation. Instead, the Western elite are pouring third-worlders into the West, exporting manufacturing to countries using fossil fuel energy, and sabotaging efforts to go nuclear. The only environmental problem people should worry about is third world overpopulation. Over 90% of the world's population live in third world cesspits where butchering the environment is a normal part of daily life. Hell, Indians use their holiest river as a sewage dump.
>>721744760Stop! I already had so many reasons to never buy an EA game
>>721771146After a certain point more reasons just don't matter
>>721744760Someone should convince Saudis so EA sells PvZ to Tencent before they consider it as a potential esport title.
>>721771316EA doesn't own protoss vs zerg
>>721744760They deserve far worse after killing Ghost, Codemasters and EAWRC in cold blood desu.
In all honesty, I don't think anything will change much, and anything that does won't be for the better. They ultimately only care about return on investment (and their oddly specific additions), so really the logical step is more mico transactions and increased base price for games.
>50 billion for EAI mean anyone paying that amount probably knows something we don't. That's fucking insane.
>>721771043Nobody lives in saudi arabia either, both are just mostly desserts by landmass. And you would need ton of bodies to actually build and maintain the infrastructure. And if you look up the saudi arabias labor force and their laws you might see a lot of familiarities with china. Just because morocco is better on paper does not necessarily make it better in practice. For instance, saudi arabia could just make more panels and sell more energy for same price as morocco, sure its inefficient but from buyers perspective they are getting a better deal so who cares if morocco is closer? As long arabia are making a profit then might as well sell for cheaper than morocco would.
>>721744760>(((private equity firm Silver Lake))))
>>721745039>every fifa game starts with mandatory call to islamic prayer
>>721744760>https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ea-private-deal-buyout-video-game-maker-808aefecnice half assed pay to read article you nigger
>>721759384Persona innovates by ditching micro transactions for the Macrotransactions Model in which you have to buy the entire fucking game again for what could easily be an update
oil money buying vidya companiescould lead into new era or end gaming forever
>>721757603Who the fuck do they think wants to go out there? It’s a million miles from everything, it’s the fucking desert, their culture is so backwards that you wouldn’t be able to bring a wife or girlfriend… etc. It’s literally not possible to turn it into a tourist destination.
>>721772365tech illiterate zoomertard lol
>>721772104you know power decays over the wires right? And saudi arabia has literal slaves, which is based
>>721772636they don't enforce the muslum shit on tourists
>>721744908Improvement, unironically.
>>721772573Praying for the Baghdad house of gaming, let these arabs take us to a new era of better vidya for better men.
>>721744760Does this mean we'll finally get modern re-releases of Skate 1,2, and 3?I want a PC version with mods n sheeit.
>>721749317kys troon. TsUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU>>721752534basedo
>>721772573They're going to replace all the employees with Indian slaves and put the company through a slow and painful death.
>>721772719>decaysThen use hydrogen, if EU trannies don't want hydrogen then fuck it, sell the hydrogen to morocco, let them turn it into electricity and let morocco sell it to EU. I could totally see this being done in such roundabout way so they technically do not sell hydrogen to EU. Saudi gets paid, morocco does not have to do anything but just accept saudi's deal and EU technically does not trade for hydrogen but electricity. Everyone happy lol
>>721765746stfu jew
>>721744908Electronic Arts is the one getting sold to the Saudis, not Epic Games. (you) jackass.
Anything is better than EA at this point and as far as i know KoF turn up to be alright even tho arabs bought the company, same for some arab prince throwing all his money on Dota2
>>721772707>tech illiterateI'm paying to read your trash website you nigger
>>721744760damn i was actually going to buy battlefield 6 too
>>721773170this is already happening
Can’t wait for oil kino and excellent Saudi game quality and honesty
>>721745039well they're doing shit like this to get a foothold in as many industries as possible in order to keep the money flowing when the oil finally starts running dry
>>721744760So did sports washing fail? Why is Saudi Arabie trying to diversify its economy into the video game market now?
>>721745248They'll probably end up improving the quality simply by not having grabbling shareholders in charge of everything.
>>721774097see >>721773959they're buying up as much shit as possible because if people start moving towards clean energy or the oil starts running out they need some kind of fallback to keep themselves from starting to hemorrhage money
This is a good thing I think the black rock super political correct propaganda needed competition from Muslim propaganda.
>>721744760> "half the earth's population must buy it at $150"Yeah right. You know you gta fags are gonna buy it multiple times and buy a ton of micro transactions
>>721747257Honestly this is based as fuck.
>>721756861This is the only positive thing that could come out of this deal.
>>721772636Baiting retard unaware of anything in the world lol
>>721744760I don't think anything will change desu.
>>721744760Will it have sexy girls now?
>>721774372arab that, jew that, jeet that...gtagoycattle are the ones who's going to kill this industry forever. they'll unironically buy it at 100 shekels if rockshart releases it at that price.
>>721752150Even a rich country is going to want to think about the future. That being said, they do enjoy burning money sometimes too so who really knows.
>>721757603They’re diversifying their economies that is true kike but oil becoming useless is a myth, oil running out might be a myth too
>>721772636Retard detected. UAE already gets a lot of tourists but ofc you wouldn’t hear about it because you’re outside the income bracket for the kind of tourist they want
>>721766137That’s because you’re a faggot
>>721771016When try released Mirror's Edge and Dead Space 1.
>>721752834Not just that, but 221 years is an estimate and one based on current or sometimes projected rates of consumption. If theres a population boom or increase in oil needs, that can become 50 years in no time.
>>721744760>unlikely hero saves the day
>>721744760Unironically a good thing. It couldn't have happened to a better company.
>>721753686i could've made 10+ loli gams with that amount of funding and time wtf
>>721747257>normalnigger tastesnah
>>721770731That's cool, we need more recoloured humans as aliens. Not everyone is a weird furry like you.
