I won't be purchasing anything EA.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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You can bid the chance of having (good) Mass Effect games good bye.
Pretty sure that ship sailed like 10 years ago.
I liked Andromeda.
This is apparently a game made by some of the old guard at BioWare.
Reminds me a bit of Andromeda mixed with ME1. Less focus on being part of a military organization from what I see.
Weird how everyone is mad or upset about EA going out of business. I look at this as a positive. EA makes 90% shit games and 10% games that are unique or could be good that I refuse to buy on the grounds that it is still owned by EA.
If the few decent IPs get sold off to a different company I might actually buy it as long as it's not one of the other mega shit companies. At least now there's a chance.
Wow did not see this coming. Saudi Arabia is desperate to diversify so from that angle it makes sense. Kushner wants in lol. That's a big buyout though. Well, things are going to get weird.
From the articles linked elsewhere this is between PIF (Saudi Arabia), Silver lake (American), and affinity partners (Jared kushner)
From wiki about affinity partners:
Kushner's firm received commitments of more than $3 billion by the end of 2021 to invest in American and Israeli companies that are expanding in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. The largest investor by some margin is the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, which has allocated $2bn of its nearly with Kushner stating that he hopes to open an "investment corridor between Saudi Arabia and Israel",[2][3] seen internationally as a "sign of warming ties between two historic rivals".[4] Officials who headed the Public Investment Fund objected to investing in Kushner's firm, but Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman overruled those officials.[5]
So basically EA got tired of watching Ubisoft and Nintendo fight over who is worse and dropped a nuke.
Damn, it really happened. Crazy.
How much couch money do I need to acquire Westwood's NoX out of this?
It'll be interesting seeing how the worst games company manages to find a way to become even worse.
I wonder if there’s any entities that they do partnerships with that have provisions in their contracts against this, curious if the sports leagues do. They’re notoriously protective of their IPa and rights