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[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

They are in a lof of debt because of the buy out.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

They're also in a lot of debt from making dog shit for the last 15 years.

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day ago

They've been making dogshit for a lot longer than that.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago

They used to have good games in addition to the dogshit ones. Now it's just the dogshit. Though to me the cutoff was 14 years ago, when they made the last Mass Effect game.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago
[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

Kind of yes, but actually no.

We just see that debt now, its explicit.

EA ... was subject to a leveraged buy out, that they sought out. They did this... because they needed cash, now.

What that means is that their internal financials were an absolute shit show... that they had, up untill that point, basically just legally lied about, hid, downplayed.

They fluffed up their balances and returns and cashflows in ways that are legal to do, but if you actually do due dilligence, you could read the writing on the wall.

Its basically the same as any other US company that got bought out / sold itself to private equity in the last 10 or 15 years.

Difference is, EA is so huge, it had to be bought out by essentially a sovereign wealth fund.

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