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Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout

https://archive.ph/2025.12.02-183650/https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/saudi-fund-to-own-almost-all-of-electronic-arts-after-buyout-661e92be

Dec 3 at 7:22amWeb
Show threadF/15/[email protected]Dec 3
Well, there goes the performative progressive values.
Show threadÆnimaDec 3
Now we’ll get those actionable regressive values! FUCK YEAH!
Show threadKorhakaDec 3
Ok, wasn’t going to buy EA games anyway
Show threadpsx_crabDec 3
Ohh do they wanna move their hq to Saudi and name it EA Nasir?
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernDec 3
Racist against Babylonians tbh, Ea Nasir would never treat customers like EA does.
Show threadMDCCCLVDec 3
It’s basically in Arabia if not specifically saud, who’s an illegitimate conqueror. That gives you a surprising steam pipe Valve reference but that means they wouldn’t do that.
Show threadmassive_bereavementDec 3
I wonder what EA IPs have just died right now?
Show threadmiskDec 3

It would make sense to sell every IP they can piecemeal to get some return on this investment.

If I had to guess then Saudi (or MBS) wanted EA FC which can now return to being EA FIFA now with extra Ronaldo. Saudi have enough influence over FIFA via PIF to make this happen.

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Show threadmassive_bereavementDec 3
Maybe I could buy Road Rash?
Show threadprettybunnysDec 3
I’ll throw a few bucks your way if you promise to make a new road rash
Show threadSpaceCowboyDec 4
Maybe just check out Road Redemption?
Show threadP03 LockeDec 3

Oh no… not my sports IPs.

Anyway…

Show threadrozodruDec 3
mass effect? honestly that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. They’ll start pumping out more Battlefields, more sports, more money into UFC games and I would bet good money they’ll try to buy the license for WWE games from 2k. Saudi’s love their WWE.
Show threadSasDec 3
Sims surely will either be cut or completely overhauled. It’s way too queer for them.
Show threadCorkyskogDec 8
Isn’t it just like free/cheap revenue now that they have no plans to make future Sims games anyway? If they really dislike it I am sure they could find a buyer for it readily.
Show threadathatetDec 3
Was mass effect not already dead? Last game was andromeda and people didn’t like it and no news on another one.
Show threadQuetzalcutlassDec 3
They announced a new one a few years ago, but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
Show threadrozodruDec 3
they announced a new one awhile back but I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. but yeah Andromedia was bad, I couldn’t even make it past the very first planet.
Show threadDoucheBagMcSwagDec 3

The “strike” series? Oh wait that was already dead.

Command and conq— no no no already dormant.

Oh! How about Road Rash—

Yeah nothing of value is going to be lost

Show threadMoonMelonDec 3
They really desecrated Dungeon Keeper. IIRC it was so filled up with mobile game, microtransaction garbage you couldn’t even dig blocks of dirt more than once a day without buying “gems”.
Show threadQuetzalcutlassDec 3
Luckily we have War for the Overworld.
Show threadcalliopeDec 3
SSX series—? Err
Show threadFlames5123Dec 3
Need For Speed for being anti authority? Honestly, I have been missing a new NFS game. The last one came out in 2022, and the longest wait between them since 1994 was 3 years… Definitely didn’t play them all, but the last two, Heat and Unbound, were surprisingly good.
Show threadceoofanarchismDec 3
EA about to be more dead and soulless than it already is.
Show threadSlartyBartFastDec 3
Electronic Farts amirite
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Dec 3
EA will stand for Evil Assholes after the buyout.
Show threadSlartyBartFastDec 3
Just after?
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Dec 3
Colloquially before, officially after.
Show threadDarkness343Dec 3
I hope the Saudis fix dragon age.
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernDec 3
Qunari Age incoming where it’s revealed they’re “the good guys,” no notes, slavery and all
Show threadCyberflunkDec 3
something tells me the genderfluid bisexual qunari are not the heros in an arab owned company
Show threadDarkness343Dec 3
Yeah, bring back Sten
Show threadCyberflunkDec 3
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN
Show threadFatVeganDec 3
Oh they will. No more annoying women in games and everyone you kill is gay
Show threaddimjimDec 3
I can only hope that they sell off Mass Effect to a better company, but I wont get my hopes up
Show threadYiddishMcSquidishDec 3
Wouldn’t give up to much hope in either direction, cause of they do sell it only one of the existing bigger houses are going to be the only ones able to afford it. Although could you imagine a Larian mass effect?
Show threaddimjimDec 3
I would CREAM over a Larian Mass Effect
Show threadMDCCCLVDec 3
100% they’ll sell off the gay games
Show threadÆnimaDec 3
Wouldn’t it be funny if the reason they bought EA was because there’s some die-hard Saudi zoomer who loves games, has a butt load of money, and wants to make great games. Maybe they do a 180° on some of their best IPs and lower the price to make gaming more accessible to more people. It’s what I would have done if I had more money than I knew what to do with! A girl can dream. <3 <3
Show threadembed_meDec 3
Plausible except the part about good, affordable games
Show threadÆnimaDec 3
Right? Capitalism gotta capitalize on all that capital, sitting around in our bank accounts, when it could be sitting around in THEIR bank accounts!
Show threadGrumpyDec 3
Yeah. If there’s a Saudi that is rich enough to buy EA on a whim, he’d definitely think $1000 for a game is very cheap and don’t understand what pricing issue exists.
Show threaddubyakayDec 3
That Saudi Zoomer Milennial is actually MbS. He got rid of the wahhabists so he can nerd out more.
Show threadSpaceCowboyDec 4

Yeah some of the mega projects he’s tried to build are straight out of Star Wars. Some look like Luke Skywalker’s home and the concept art for The Line looked like Coruscant.

If he wasn’t a scumbag murderer he’d be almost likable.