What this shows quite clearly is that petrostates have too much money and power. Its astonishing how many crucial sectors of the American economy have significant Gulf investment; and may soon be completely controlled by them.

The only rational way I see out of this is to move to Renewable energy and eliminate the worlds dependence on fossil fuels.

So will this make EA less evil or more? They have shepherded so many great IPs, but also have been on the forefront of sleaze practices. There has to be plenty of money just squeezing those IPs or using the talent in making new things, but I have the feeling that we are going to see more of the same thing with super micro transactions.

Can someone explain to me how a public company can go private and there’s no fear of outcry from the shareholders in said company? Like companies do all these evil things to please shareholders but wouldn’t many shareholders of a public company be against the transition back to private?

Some EA IP I remember

Battlefield

Mass effect

Dragon age

Madden

The sims

Titanfall

Some more earlier on one of the sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389733

Explains a lot of their moves. I'm still pissed at them canning the mobile baseball game (an MMO simulator with a rabid, engaged fan base) from their purchase of Glu.

I mean what's the worst case scenario here, EA starts making even worse games? Maybe going private will give them the freedom to get more creative.

The buyer is Jared Kushner? Ivanka Trump's husband?

How does a country go from 9/11 to "let's sell our ass to these guys" in under three decades?

If modern AAA gaming wasn't already enshittified enough, I'm confident private equity bankers will finish the job in short order.

can someone please buy ubisoft?

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