Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says

• Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Survival. They know the death of the petrostate is inevitable and that they need to diversify their investments while they still have the cash to do so. EA is just one of many, many assets their sovereign wealth fund picked up across a number of industries but leaning towards “tech” in general. From this perspective, I don’t see why they would be motivated to involve themselves more than knowing what they pull in.

  Do you seriously think they did this in an effort to win some sort of Islamic cultural victory over the degenerate west? If anything they’re looking to dump it all for AI investment now, like everyone else.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you seriously think buying EA with Jared Kushner is a backup plan to oil? Do you really think EA has enough growth potential to offside oil?

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    • Fluke@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Missing the point.

      Straight answer: no.

      However, as one of many diversification options it’ll likely make more money than it cost(s), ergo…

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If it were that simple, we would be here in the comments section of news about how EA forced the removal of the LGBTQ Pride Flag. The world isn’t run my logical people. It’s run by pedophiles, economic fanatics, religious fanatics, and narcissists. Everything’s getting worse because people in power are deciding to make things worse.

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  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you seriously think they did this in an effort to win some sort of Islamic cultural victory over the degenerate west?

    Not even remotely. Nobody brought this up except you in your first comment. I guess my question is why do YOU think that WE think that the UAE bought EA to implement sharia law?? Where did you hear that from?

    And yes, I get the “diversification” angle. That makes sense. But wouldn’t that mean they would have to… keep making games? And based on the past censorship needed to sell games in the UAE wouldn’t it stand to reason they would want that same level of censorship in games they make themselves? They aren’t doing it to “secretly prime people to accept sharia law” but simply because not censoring the games would be against their beliefs?

    That’s more the vibe I was getting from people commenting about it.

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