It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

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• desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  EA games suck nowadays anyway; this was just a buyout for shareholders and founders.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh good, I can continue not buying EA games.

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  • seathru@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    No, but I may pirate a few now. Just to seed them as a tiny middle finger to the saudis.

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you still buy EA games at this point you better not tell anyone because you’re a braindead fuckwit for sending Saudis your money

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some people have no choice in what kind of car they can afford to drive.

      We all have a very easy choice when it comes to choosing your video games

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    that’s an improvement over sending the usians our money.

    barely but still.

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• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn’t you know?

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• DaMummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Effectively all it? That’s 93.4%, that’s more than 90%, and almost 95%, which is almost 100%, which would be all of it!

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This guy maths.

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  • motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But they’re not equal, hence the phrasing

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are saying it’s redundant, and therefore unnecessary.

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

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• Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  EA (Respawn) peaked at Titanfall 2 and hasn’t released anything good since. I set them to Ignore on Steam a few years ago.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Jedi Fallen Order was good though (also Respawn).

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    • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah Respawn is a good dev, just a shame they got bought by EA and scrapped Titanfall 3.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    And even then they massively fucked up by ignoring all the ddosing for years. It gave us Northstar but it’s a paid fucking game, come on man.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does EA own any other companies/brands that we should be aware of?

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, they’ve been buying up smaller studios for decades and shutting them down.

    There’s an entire wikipedia page about it.

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  • DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The only EA franchise I’ve cared about in the last 15 years was Mirrors Edge. Would love another but I’ve long given up hope on that.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean it’s not like they can make it any worse.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is this even legal?

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  • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You seem to be under some misconception regarding why actually wires our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Bribery? They are buying a company. That’s it. There isn’t anything special about it. It’s like any other company out there. 

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What exactly about it is it you feel should be illegal?

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Foreign country buying a US corporation.

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