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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 63 points 17 hours ago

EA has been dead for over a decade honestly. With the new Saudi owners they are just being turned into a zombie.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 30 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Holy shit you aren't kidding!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games:_2020%E2%80%93present

I'm looking at the releases and honestly none of those games are Day 1 must buy for me.

I think the Saudis bought it for the sports games. And those games are pretty cookie cutter and they sell well thanks to the chuds.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 6 hours ago

Everything is just a remake of something good from 20 years ago, an expansion pack for The Sims, or a sports game. Although in slight fantas to them Star wars squadrons actually was good. I think the leadership forgot about that that one because it never even had micro transactions or loot boxes or anything.

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

If you like strategic fps, Battlefield has always been the best game in my eyes. I bought it right before news of the purchase came out... Let's just say I wasn't impressed. Fuck the saudis, but Kushner is the real ghoul.

Also skate doesn't exactly have any competitors. I have always loved skate, and would consider the new one quite enjoyable (if its code wasn't 50% computer-crashing kernel level nonsense).

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 14 hours ago

Most of it seems to be remasters, sequels and EA Sports Game .

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