>To complete its privatization, EA took on $20 billion in debt, leaving the entire company in desperate need of cash flow.Given EA's large portfolio of dormant IPs, it might be time to put those properties up for auction.>Which IPs will be sold?Sports, Apex Legends, and Battlefield will not be sold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games
Maybe EA will sell off Medal of Honor?Unless EA plans to have Respawn make a new Call of Duty clone.
>>722570593Everything they can, I imagine. The oil lords only care about the biggest franchises.
Please give someone competent the syndicate IP and C&C
>>722570593>$20 billion in debt, leaving the entire company in desperate need of cash flowNot how it works.Here from the forbes article:>Financing includes roughly $36 billion in equity and $20 billion in committed debt from JP Morgan, with $18 billion expected at closeI am no /biz/ but that essentially means yes they owe 20 bil to a bank but that is a loan, so it gets removed from the buying of the company money.So say the company was worth 50 bil and they owe 20 the purchasers only need to give them 30bil as the 20 is already on the companies books as debt.They of course wont have to pay it off and having the equity means they are not actually in debt, they are just borrowing on what they own. Essentially like a house you remortgage.
The Saudi prince will definitely sell Dragon Age.This IP has been ruined by DEI, and unless the company is replaced, there's absolutely no hope.
>>722571784>They of course wont have to pay it off and having the equity means they are not actually in debt, they are just borrowing on what they own. Essentially like a house you remortgage.Alright, I do hope EA would at least sell off some of its dead IPs.Like the “Alice” series.That way, at least the franchise could be reborn.
>>722571957>sell off some of its dead IPs.I am sure you know how EA has worked for the last what, like 3 decades, they have bought competitors to shutter rival IPs/studios and absorb tech, devs and studios into their own.from a financial PoV it is a smart business strategy.With especially the sauidi prince being a weeb gamer, and there now being no smart business strategy to hold dorman IPs, they might and probably will do a fire sale and sell off dormant IPs.I doubt very much they will buy new studios and try to get them to remake old IPs though so dont expect them to be making a new underworld or whatever.If there are any IPs the weeb saud wants though, I expect he will fund it to be made.Good thing about him too is he is complete hands off. Like he bought SNK and just said make the games and they have just made whatever they want.>>722571823This is a good poingt, EA DEI shit might end, just depends how much % he has in it because the other firms buying EA are jews and we know what they do.Either way for us as consumers, we wont see a change in EAs games for like 5+ years.I do expect them to get the FIFA IP back though, especially after FIFA fumbled the idea of trying to get a new dev to do it.
>>722571957>Alice” series.Ohh yeah. Alice in wonderland is public domain, anyone could make game around it.Though alice nightmare game like that, idk if it would be compywrite. I doubt it though.
Someone explain leveraged buyouts to me.
>>722570593as much as id like for EA to sell shit like NFS, Burnout, SKATE and Deadspace to developers who care that is not going to happencorporate entities today would rather sit on something for a thousand years rather than sell it to the competition for the simple fact that they might lose ''potential revenue''These corpos hate losing money but if theres one thing they hate more is someone else making money, say they sell NFS to Microsoft for example, NFS has lost EA tons of money over the decades due to subbar entries and is basicly a dead franchise at this point, so in theory they have nothing to lose to sell itBut if Microsoft buys it and pumps out a NFS game that the fanbase loves, is a smash hit and basicly puts it back on track the only thing that would do for EA is lose face infront of its shareholders because all they will see is>this franchise still had potential>they sold a IP that is now going to rise in worth to the point that they'll never get it back>IP mismanagement was obviously the main problem with the series and not overal fatigue >they just made a competitor alot richer with something they used to ownlong story short, jews would rather sit on a rotten plot of land for all of eternity rather than give someone else the oppertunity to turn it into a wheatfield
>>722571823>Larian buys it
>>722572813>LarianIt's a good idea, but I don't believe it will happen.Like there won't be a new Dead Space game.
They should sell Medal Of Honor to Rebellion and C&C to Petroglyph
>>722570712>>722570750>>722570789Anything of value sell to the chinks and gooks. They can keep the rest.
>>722572813>>722573041>>722571823>if larian bought dragon age today we would see the next dragon age game in 2035
please dear god let them sell wing commander and let whoever buysb it not do something stupid with it
>>722574564>in 2035My expectations aren't high—I just hope Origin gets a remake.
>>722574173>sell to the chinks and gooksYeah we are in dire need of more gachas and soulslikes
>>722574564A new DA is unlikely to make a profit. The IP would likely require a complete reboot, starting with a DA:O remake.In the case of DA, it is a viable option. Non-viable for ME.
I want EA to free Command and Conquer.Westwood deserved better.
>>722570712my guy doesn't know how to use an image editor. you must be a business guy
>>722571823>Dragon Ageyour IP is only as good as your last game.Bioware created Mass Effect because they didn't want to pay licensing fees to Lucasarts for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republicthe question: why would anyone want to buy dragon age
Any hope the arabs make battlefront 3 or sell it to someome who will or does that all go back to yidsney?
>>722570934Wait ea owns both battlefield and medal of honor? why?
>>722578060Because they made both?
>>722577863>why would anyone want to buy dragon ageLarian?I actually really like Origin.
>>722576321>Command and Conquerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax03voRHfyg&t=93> EA . هل الألعاب هتتغير؟ 1st Step Gaming 448K subscribers 54K views 4 days agoseems like we have people in our camp>Westwood deserved better.why. because the creators cashed out? why fault EA for it.
>>722578138Why?
>>722577972the titanfall guys star wars mp fps already sounds better than nu battlefront with its crowded non-interactive environments
>>722578276despite origins being a fun game dragon age isnt all that good lore wise. mass effect on the other handsomeone should put that world in an isometric crpg
command and conquer to THQ nordicbioware as a whole to microsoft (remains multiplat)The rights to alice to american mcgee (copium)
>>722578613>mass effectI doubt the Saudi prince would sell Mass Effect; he'd just ban LGBTQ+ content.
>>722572409you own company XYZ.you make 15 milly a year minus 5 milly on taxes so you profit a solid 10 milly and life is good.jewish bank man approaches you and is like>oy vey anodda shoah>here's a 10 milly investment, gibs me equity in XYZyou agree, and suddenly he turns round to go to the bank.it turns out that he got a loan of like 100 milly and he planned to use uses the equity in ur company as collateral to the bank.so now the jew owns ur company, they are gradually paying you the asking price and taking it over like a virus. don't forget, this isn't a hostile take over, you agreed to this. they take ur profit and leverage it against the loan, and over time the jew pays off the bank and now they own the company and can do what they like. in the meantime, if they want to downsize or sell off whatever assets you have to keep the company afloat, they can do that. these sorts of buyouts typically involve layoffs and various types of "restructuring" in the name of saving cash.
>>722579246Is EA in the same situation?It looks more like they gave shareholders $50 billion to buy out the entire company. Of that, $30 billion was borrowed from banks.
>>722578827Do those creatures even care about or like sci-fi? It probably conflicts with their subhuman practices to see a white dude teaming up with aliens to fight evil and fuck women.
>>722578827>he'd just ban LGBTQ+ content.people still think the Saudis are going to do that?Islam is pretty clear that selling stuff you can't do yourself to nonbelievers is 100% acceptableSaudis are merchants first, if they figure that stuff sells to a certain audience they have 0 qualms about selling
>>722580278>if they figure that stuff sells to a certain audienceWell... About that...
>>722580467plenty of that stuff actually sells, BG3 contained a ton of LGBTQ+ content and it sold amazinglyInquisition was filled with it and it sold great in it's daythe reason Veilguard didn't sell is because the entire game was ass
>>722579560yes I think it's a similar situation, but I'm not going to pretend I understand the intricacies of a LBO.
>>722570593None if they're smart
>>722570593Companies sit on IP. 30 years ago EA bought Virgin Interactive just to not release their ultra violent massively hyped game Thrill Kill, A few weeks ago 2K offered to buy the canceled Perfect Dark game to finish it from Microsoft but MS refused, because they didn't want to give up the IP.>>722571823EA will make a soulless mobile game with the IP and generic merch like Tarot cardsWhat they're going to do is pump a billion dollars into advertising next year's sports games as the second coming while lowering the budgets of the games themselves.We already see how the Saudis run SNK and their AAAA media blitz for the AA at best Garou City of the Wolves.
>>722571957maybe they can finally give it back to McGee
Somebody please buy the renderware engine from them and make it pay to licence or better yet open source. We could have a second 6th gen golden age.
