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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/theonion@sh.itjust.works/t/2790390

Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Jared Kushner were shocked when they found out their $55 Billion buyout of EA did not include the new, downloadable content. “We should have seen this coming,” stated Kushner. “It’s a classic EA move, the base purchase is never enough without the bug fixes, patches, and eventual DLC. Now EA has the upper-hand.” [...]

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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 15 points 1 week ago
[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

It's the Canadian Onion - though I feel it has surpassed the Onion at this point.

[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

Even their buyouts have DLCs? Come the fuck on.

[-] runner_g 34 points 1 week ago

This is a satire news site, similar to the Onion

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Do you think that's why he made that joke?

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Next you’ll hear they need to subscribe to the battle pass for new games they wish to own the IP for.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 week ago

Yea this is satire, it should be moderated out of pcgaming.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

That's a DLC feature.

[-] alessandro@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I would add [satirical fake news] to the title, just to be sure

[-] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough👍

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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