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This has got to be some form of vulture capitalism. They will sell off all the IP and physical property, either directly or by spinning off divisions into new companies to sell off. Then sell off any other pieces of the company that they can, and finally they'll take all that income as bonuses for the new owners and leave the remains of EA with nothing but debt and no option other than to file for bankruptcy. Same thing that was done to companies like Toys-R-Us but on a larger scale.
That was exactly my thought. Extract cash for the owners through massive cuts, gut the company and discard the husk. Classic leveraged buy out scheme.
Thing is, could they even get enough from selling the IP to cover the purchase?
Probably not and they have no intention to. They will give themselves bonuses and stock dividends that will eat up all the income from selling the IP (and everything else) and then leave the company with nothing but debt forcing it to declare bankruptcy.
Don't they need to get at least $36 billion from that for it to be worth it?
No shit. My question is whether there's enough value in EA's IP get more than their investment money out of doing that.
If the IP isn't worth enough, they can't get their money back, no matter what method they use to extract it