Aaaand there’s the other shoe
KSA is staggeringly rich but can’t pay for their purchase.
And? What fucks are there left to give about a publically malicious/murderous government buying a publically malicious company which publically destroys their creatives ability to stay alive in this capitalist shitscape?
I want the heart and soul of those studios (the creatives) to create a tsunami of indie studios to revive the long lost connection between the gamers and the makers.
We have to support indie devs if we want gaming to be better for all involved.
I miss the old days, when they made all sorts of innovative software.
Ad for electronic arts, 1984.
Bigger version here: https://files.catbox.moe/r3e05i.png
Imagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games.
Going indie from scratch means going no income for years for a project that may never succeed, not everyone can afford the risk. Existing indie studio have very limited hiring capacity compared to the amount of people getting laid off from big companies.
AFAIK Schedule 1 is developed by a single dev still in college.
That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now.
Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees
What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess…
Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won’t have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game.
Finally, some good news. Maybe Saudi Arabia bought EA to burn it down and make the world a better place.
Mass Effect team must be shitting bricks.
Should have made something worth playing in the last 10+ years then.
These legacy studios with expensive old heads are going to be a thing of the past.
Thank you for reminding me that just like Todd Howard whoever is in charge of Mass Effect has seriously shit the bed and deserves to get fired (though it’ll never happen, instead their studio will get gutted and they’ll get a raise).
Seems like some former Mass Effect devs are working on a game called Exodus that looks good.
Appreciate the recommendation, I will keep my eye on it
I’ve been keeping a close eye on this. Looks very generic sci fi adventure, but if they can nail the writing, story and script I’m all for it.
They paid 53 bil for something that has only 300 mil /year in profits?
A 200 year ROI (interest on the 20 bil loan for the leveraged buyout that ea itself will need to pay) doesn’t seems too bad
Bloodbath… Saudi Arabia
How literally are we talking here?
Unnecessary employees will be invited to the nearest consulate
They are just buying data not making games.
Do you know, why EA is the worst company in the whole US of A? It’s because Ubisoft is in France.
Good one!
Saudi Arabia beheading another American [resident]?
Judging by MBS’s steam account, the next Battlefield is going to be an extraction shooter about the coalition of the willing securing pipelines and putting out oil field fires. Also Tehran doesn’t get nuked in the game, it got nuked 20 years ago, and this is framed as a Bad Thing With A Silver Lining. The Line is your primary hub city and your ground vehicles are things like solar powered Abrams and cybertruck but good
I’m having trouble clicking on your tvtropes link there
Time to block internet for some wine-prefixes i guess.
Edit: also learned of the
sg(likesu) command.If you
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Sg
You get sausage.
Well my days is not buying EA products are certainly coming to a middle.
