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- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish58 minutes
Time to block internet for some wine-prefixes i guess.
Edit: also learned of the
sg(likesu) command. - 2 hours
Judging by MBS’s steam account, the next Battlefield is going to be an extraction shooter about the coalition of the willing securing pipelines and putting out oil field fires. Also Tehran doesn’t get nuked in the game, it got nuked 20 years ago, and this is framed as a Bad Thing With A Silver Lining. The Line is your primary hub city and your ground vehicles are things like solar powered Abrams and cybertruck but good
3 hoursImagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games.
- absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees
- GardenGeek@europe.pubEnglish2 hours
What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess…
- mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Should have made something worth playing in the last 10+ years then.
These legacy studios with expensive old heads are going to be a thing of the past.
- OpenPassageways@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
Seems like some former Mass Effect devs are working on a game called Exodus that looks good.
- sen@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Thank you for reminding me that just like Todd Howard whoever is in charge of Mass Effect has seriously shit the bed and deserves to get fired (though it’ll never happen, instead their studio will get gutted and they’ll get a raise).
- northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish5 hours
A lot of people are glancing over the fact that now a country is running this Video Game company. I’m not betting that the Saudis will: Open up old IPs, take care of labor costs, respect the players, not install spyware onto customer’s machines and report their party affiliation or any government secrets stored on said machine.
If you didn’t trust EA being run by a private company then I bet you won’t trust EA being ran by a government.
- FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Games are essentially attack vectors with kernal level access to your computer.
The united States is looking at doing something about Chinese gaming companies, yet we are okay with handing over what is essentially a back door over to the Saudis.
I just think its weird what malware we are okay with.
- Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 hours
Games are essentially attack vectors with kernal level access to your computer.
Some games, with very specific anticheat. Let’s not spread misinformation.
That being said, yeah I don’t get it either - I refused to play Valorant for this reason.
- YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
Well that’s the end of EA. The owners will tear it apart and bleed it dry.
People have been predicting the death of EA for over twenty years.
Meanwhile, they release another Madden and another FIFA and another Sims and another Star Wars, then mint themselves another $7B. Nevermind that all of these games are just reskinned copies of the games they’ve been releasing going back to the mid-90s.
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 hours
Another Sims? Don’t be daft. They’ll release another Sims DLC and get all the money with much less effort.
Seriously, 4 has been a cash cow for over a decade now, with biannual expansion packs.
Yesn’t.
That may have been somewhat true in the past, but it is hard to articulate just how big of a hole they are in right now. The leveraged buyout has pushed EA’s debt to over $20Billion USD.
They make that money back or they might not, but they are going to absolutely pillage and destroy the company in the process. The word that often follows “leveraged buyout” is “bankruptcy”. It’s a tale as old as corporate history.
Maybe. But there’s an enormous amount of money to wring out of EA, even with the debts. And you can go back decades to read about their deplorable labor practices. This isn’t even the first time EA has been subjected to this kind of aggressive cash hungry squeeze.
- Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish5 hours
I did a buad report on EA going on 20 years ago. TLDR they’re basically Martin Shkreli but a corporation.
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 hours
Like Martin Shkreli in that they’ll increase the price of a life-saving drug 20x without consequences, or like Martin Shkreli in that they’ll go to prison for defrauding rich investors?
Seriously fucked up that the second was considered a crime, but not the first, in Shkreli’s case.
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
I don’t understand why you’d buy something and then essentially destroy what it was. Everyone sees you doing this, are they actually going to make money?
- LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish4 hours
Yes. Just like a farmer can make money butchering their cattle, these private equity type fucks always find a way to pocket every penny.
I don’t care what they do. Even if I hadn’t already been boycotting EA for 10+ years, I’d never install Saudi-owned ring-0 “anticheat” software on any of my computers.
- Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish6 hours
Well, there goes the last remnant of possibility for a dragon age or mass effect revival.
Replaying Dishonored 2, still mad about Arkane.
It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.
- AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.
They can kill AAA gaming, but devs will just learn to adapt to the hardware limitations of their time. If you’ve got a device you can install stuff on, devs will figure out how to make it run games. They may not be as shiny, which is practically sacrilege to the AAA player community, but so long as we have hardware, we’ll have games.
That’s what I’m worried about. I played the Mass Effect Trilogy several times and they’re my all times favourite.
But this Saudi Arabia deal is not good for the industry because as we know, Saudi Arabia is a very conservative muslim country and it will destroy the creative process.
- nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
The funny thing is Mass Effect destroyed the series themselves with Andromeda. No Saudi help necessary.
But everyone was hoping the next Mass Effect game would return to its sources, not continue the “My face is tired” series. But I was hoping too much.
- Paradachshund@lemmy.todayEnglish6 hours
The liquidation shall continue until
moralstakeholder wealth improves I would say “never has there been a more moral case for pirating the sh*t out of everything this company makes”, since they always exploit and lay off their workers after projects are done, shut down studios, etc…
…but most of their stuff is recycled sports drek, so don’t even pirate it. Just ignore it, and tell everyone you know how horrible EA is and has always been, and who its new owners are. Hopefully they’ll never buy their crap again either.
