Electronic Arts has been sold for $55 Billion

[ThunderBoy]

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion​

https://news.ea.com/press-releases/...Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx

 

[bjork]

Said it elsewhere, but if I work at EA, I'm immediately trying to find another gig elsewhere. Taking on $20B of debt and being tied to Kushner? Adios

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

A quick Google search makes me think they were made for eachother

 

[Neb Lleb]

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion​

https://news.ea.com/press-releases/...Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx

Ding-dong, the corpos are dead. Well, sort of.

 

[Clippy]

I don't think they can get any worse but I've been proven wrong before so I guess we'll see what the future brings. Probably nothing good.

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

As if they could get any worse.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

I just learn there's a change on our publisher's management, welcome Saudi Prince!, continue to improve our lives.
I love you perfect leader.

 

[nobitakun]

Does this mean they will start doing crappy mobages? everytime I see a news like this one I feel it.

 

[Zerpina]

55 Billion, for EA?
That's about... fifty-four billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars to much IMO

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Does this mean they will start doing crappy mobages? everytime I see a news like this one I feel it.

The Sims is already kinda set up for a mobile free-to-play game. Kinda surprised they haven't done that already

 

[Graw]

The Sims is already kinda set up for a mobile free-to-play game. Kinda surprised they haven't done that already

Is that not what this is?

 

[Clippy]

55 Billion, for EA?
That's about... fifty-four billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars to much IMO

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[qw90700]

What EA has become!!!:

lol

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Is that not what this is?
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My mistake I gave them too much credit

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Seriously? Not an Aprils Fool?

 

[kuroninneko]

Eeeeew EA.

 

[Bonkers225]

Saudis bought it, and it went private. What does that mean? No more woke garbage for the sake of being woke. So, EA pre 2010's.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Saudis bought it, and it went private.

Do you think that gaming will all be about Middle East and China in the future?

 

[DanCalibur]

That's the same guys trying to buy Nintendo a few years ago?

 

[kuroninneko]

Didnt they also help fund SNK's new Fatal Fury game?

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Didnt they also help fund SNK's new Fatal Fury game?

I'd heard the same. It was pretty odd to see that game get top billing at Wrestlemania this year, and I guess that would be where some of that funding went.

 

[diet_orange]

55 Billion, for EA?
That's about... fifty-four billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars to much IMO

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It kind of makes me wish Trip Hawkins would have just bought out the company wholesale and tried to salvage EA's rep like back when he ran it in the 80's/early 90s

Other than that, good fucking riddance. Hopefully the same will happen to Ubisoft

 

[Bonkers225]

Do you think that gaming will all be about Middle East and China in the future?

I don't think so. However the LGBT, and pronouns stuff is more than likely dead from here on out considering how they're treated in the Middle East.

 

[kuroninneko]

I'd heard the same. It was pretty odd to see that game get top billing at Wrestlemania this year, and I guess that would be where some of that funding went.

I remember when Fatal Fury was at wrestlemania that was a surprise. But Im not too excited about WWE going there more often.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I remember when Fatal Fury was at wrestlemania that was a surprise. But Im not too excited about WWE going there more often.
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Quick, hide her navel!