Electronic Arts, the video game maker, is being acquired and taken private for about $52.5 billion in what could become the largest-ever buyout funded by private-equity firms.
My thoughts exactly. Since the 2010s EA has been going down the dark path of lootboxes and micro transactions, so there’s literally nothing left to save any more. I’m sure they’re going to find new and profitable ways to enshittify the company even further, but it’s been just total shit for such a long time already that nothing will change the general stench.
Oh, the sports games. Those are a special breed! I think it was NHL 95 or something when I realized that they are pumping these games every year and hardly anything changes in between. Always made me wonder who pays for this trash. Just walk to the nearest game store, buy a used 4 year old NHL of FIFA game, and you’re all set for a long time.
I don’t know how that would work nowadays since steam games are a thing. I guess you just wait for the -90% discount and buy the NHL/FIFA 2019 or whatever.
I think the last sports game I played was Wayne Gretsky’s hockey for the n64. There was also the NES football game. which I kept beating my brother at because he couldn’t fathom that I was actually dumb enough to blitz every. single. play.
I’m worried they’re gonna find a way to extract all the real-time customer data they can find a way to grab and leverage it to sustain profits in our new Palantir-inspired dystopian world.
Private equity suck the life (value) out of a company until there is nothing left. That is probably what will happen here.
it’s EA. they’ve already sucked the soul out of everything.
My thoughts exactly. Since the 2010s EA has been going down the dark path of lootboxes and micro transactions, so there’s literally nothing left to save any more. I’m sure they’re going to find new and profitable ways to enshittify the company even further, but it’s been just total shit for such a long time already that nothing will change the general stench.
I mean, have they had substantive innovations with each copy of their annual sports games?
They’re all reskins of the same game with new stats and such.
Oh, the sports games. Those are a special breed! I think it was NHL 95 or something when I realized that they are pumping these games every year and hardly anything changes in between. Always made me wonder who pays for this trash. Just walk to the nearest game store, buy a used 4 year old NHL of FIFA game, and you’re all set for a long time.
I don’t know how that would work nowadays since steam games are a thing. I guess you just wait for the -90% discount and buy the NHL/FIFA 2019 or whatever.
I think the last sports game I played was Wayne Gretsky’s hockey for the n64. There was also the NES football game. which I kept beating my brother at because he couldn’t fathom that I was actually dumb enough to blitz every. single. play.
I’m worried they’re gonna find a way to extract all the real-time customer data they can find a way to grab and leverage it to sustain profits in our new Palantir-inspired dystopian world.
Holy shit that’s scary
Hijacking your comment to remind everyone this purchase comes with rootkit anticheat on millions of devices.