Woaw, never coulda seen that coming.
Time to work for someone else…
I doubt they can make EA any worse.
Ah ye of little faith. Rest assured, it can always get worse, as we will soon learn.
Then find a new job??? If they’re allegedly so morally opposed to their new bosses then why the fuck do they still work there? Let EA rot, jump on board a new studio.
Imagine a game like Lara Croft, but the main character wears a Burqua.
She wouldn’t be allowed to be the main character!
You don’t have to imagine.
It already happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta
This will 100% happen. Hell, I couldn’t even leave a critical google review of a nearby middle eastern hotel because of government censorship.
Google suppression is the more prolific cause of censorship, not the least in criticisms of large firms.
They are in effect running a protection racket. If a company pays them to not show search results, they won’t show them. Ie, best buy’s now since 2021 defective electronics. The only hits on social media that are even close to what you are asking for, are forums run by the manufacturers that sold you the defective merchandise.
There is no bottom to this path we are on.
Surely, they’ll approve a 9/11 flight simulator.
With a bonus level of chopping up journalists in hotel rooms?
Could you explain what you mean?
Mostly Saudi citizens were the perpetrators of 9/11 and there was a lot of suspicion that the government was involved, either through planning or funding.
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But that’s a good thing, because it will go down in flames the way most of us have wanted to see for over a decade.
It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.
But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.
My take is that the Saudis were incredibly fortunate to be sitting on a resource that has had inelastic demand for decades. So fortunate in fact that they didn’t get good at anything else that wasn’t related to oil.
They’ve known for some time that the oil reserves can’t sustain them forever so they’ve dabbled in investments in various industries with lacklustre results.
Their recent foray into gaming is symbolic of this. An industry that bleeds cash without the creative talent that underpins it. I mean Microsoft is a good example of when ‘business’ intersects with the production of art.
They aren’t concerned about being owned by Trump’s family too?
They own the Trump’s, not the other way around
EA is loaded with so much debt I doubt it will even matter. They‘ll be dismantled.
Bosses cashed out and left the carcas to rot
The ironic part is it’s the same thing that happened to all the companies EA bought too
Quit all at once and start your own company.
Honestly, I expected rapid enshittification when Scopely bought Pokemon Go, but it’s been better than when Niantic owned it
Tbf “better than Niantic” is a bar so low it’s a tripping hazard in hell.
Compared to taking orders from Sweet Baby Inc of course
