I should have clarified, this is a leveraged buyout. If you know what that is, you assume EA will be raided and sold for scrap. EA being thrown to the private equity vultures is the worst possible outcome for their studios and IPs.

>>1792298 >EA being thrown to the private equity vultures is the worst possible outcome for their studios and IPs It was all dead in their hands anyway.

>>1792298 So it's another word for bankruptcy without the actual bankrupt announcement?

>>1792271 >>1792298 Kill all private equity kikes.

>>1792298 How does this differ from something like Valve since Valve does very well and is a private company.

>>1792298 Does this mean American McGee could buy back Alice from EA if he wanted to? I feel like 2K under Take-Two would just swoop in & get the NHL & Madden NFL games from them to establish a sports game monopoly.

>>1792271 It is EA, so everything they make will still be shit.

>>1792298 >EA being thrown to the private equity vultures is the worst possible outcome for their studios and IPs >worst possible outcome This is EA that we're talking about, right? Sometimes dead is better. >>1792522 You're really gonna bring up the company who has a monopoly on PC game digital distribution when someone mentions a company that has always bought up studios and IPs like crazy, before quickly turning them into trash and kill them off? EA doesn't even have the crown of most evil gaming company, seems like it might've fallen into the hands of either the Chinese or Japanese. >>1792531 >I feel like 2K under Take-Two would just swoop in & get the NHL & Madden NFL games from them to establish a sports game monopoly Gonna have to fight Mickey for them.

Garbage shifting hands. Only difference we'll see is that EA will no longer have to tell the public about anything instead of mandatory financial reports to public

>>1792522 Because Valve is owned by private individuals, like Gabe and various other executives and employees who have a vision and a culture for what kinds of games and platforms they want to create. EA is being bought out by private equity firms. They don't give a shit about anything except for money, and it's very unlikely that they have any interest in making video games or adding a profitable video game company to their assets. If they keep the company at all, they'll pump them for as much cash as they can bleed out of customers and then butcher the company to sell the scraps off to the highest bidders. That's essentially how Sierra died after Ken sold out to CUC. CUC only bought them up as a smoke screen for the financial shenanigan they were pulling behind the scene - and once caught, ended up having the shitcan most of the studios partly to pay off restitutions, and partly because their actually financials couldn't afford a company Sierra's size. This resulted in the "Chainsaw Monday" layoffs and the closing of the original Yosemite studio. Shortly after that the company was sold to Vivendi, and by 2008 there was nothing left of them except for a collection of dusty old IPs and a brand logo. They were then merged into Activision/Blizzard, and most recently, to Microsoft. (Ken Williams literally CUC'd his company to death) That's the difference between being privately owned by a handful of individuals with a vision, and being privately owned by a bunch of investment firms, holding companies, and other corporate vultures.

>>1792683 I see, so basically EA is dead

>>1792683 >That's essentially how Sierra died after Ken sold out to Concordia University Chicago. What do these words mean?

>>1792688 Not necessarily, but they are just a big bundle of assets to be sold, leased, or kept, depending on how much money they think they can make. >>1792709 Comp-U-Card International

>>1792271 Bad business, bad business.

>>1792531 I want to like him but he went full Chink shill and America is bad and CCP is better.

>>1793184 Some people have to learn "the devil you know is better than the chink you don't" the hard way.

>>1793184 To be fair, he's not far off. Britain is jailing more people on speech crimes than China by a wide fucking margin these days. America probably won't be far behind them, especially if the Rebublicunts lose the next election cycle because of fucking course they would. Two cheeks of the same ass and all that.

>>1792298 I dont really see EA being sacked as a bad thing, theyve been doing what you described to studios and IPs for a while now so while it may be expensive some of the ips could end up being freed from their awful hands and back in development provided someone is willing to fork out cash to equity kikes

Zampella is trying to save Battlefield and they pivoted from trannies to jewing their next game with only real women instead which might be enough for normalniggers to pretend the game is "based" but other than that they're doing nothing with their IPs except for driving them into the ground. C&C remasturd is the only exception I can think of and it obviously did nothing for their bottom line. They're coasting on milking idiots via gambling cards in their annual FIFA, Madden and college football games so this is not surprising proposal.

>>1794066 >Women on the frontlines is based How far we've fallen

>>1794066 >>1794106 Based on what?

>>1794066 Battlefield 6 being """"based"""" is like believing that nintendo won't fuck over fans

>>1792522 Because Valve is owned by Gabe Newell, not management companies. PE firms are worse than shareholders for enshittifying a company, a lot of good companies circled the drain once private equity got hold of them.

>>1792271 So what miracle happened that they are finally dying? I thought they would live forever on fifa players

>>1795051 EA Sports FC 25 didn't sell as many copies compared to 24. Dragon Age Veilguard also didn't sell well

>>1795051 No miracle whatsoever. Nothing is too big to fall. Everything that turns to shit WILL die eventually.

I doubt anything will change tbh.

>>1792271 >no more infinite bailouts from BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street >no more lying to shareholders to bolster cash flow <goes bankrupt in a year when no one buys their shit anymore Beautiful.

>>1795843 what bugs me is how long that scam was allowed to go on.

>>1795456 It will look, look at Bethesda and Activision post Microsoft buyout. Both are dead on the water.

>>1793707 >than China by a wide fucking margin these days. It's because you never hear of it, you really think chinks don't to it in large scale? Who is gonna report it? You will only start seeing this when you dig on the chink side of the web yourself

>>1796595 Both were dead in the water before Microshit. >>1796899 As long as you don't speak against the Chinese goobermint, you should be mostly okay, but Airstrip One jails and fines people for saying things woke ideology doesn't like, which is practically everything. So far China should still have the far worse punishment for wrongspeak but it's only a matter of time before they lose that crown.

>>1797483 >Both were dead in the water before Microshit. Indeed, why they sold out, but being indepedent would have have made them last longer as it would be easier for them to adapt.

>>1792271 Apparently, the buyers are connected to president Donald Trump, and leftards are angry about this.

>>1798093 Are we sure this isn't another example of TDS?

>>1798093 Leftards are angry about the Kushner part, and rightards are angry about this Saudis part. It's a nice balance.

>>1798093 Why be mad when EA makes shit game regardless

>>1798079 >it would be easier for them to adapt Wait, we're not talking about Bethesda and Activision?

>>1798133 You think you'll see something like the Arkane/Machine Games push by Bethesda or the new engine and game mechanics developed by Activision with the Modern Warfare Reboot? They'll be pumping way lower risk trash products until they die.

>>1798161 >you'll see something like the Arkane/Machine Games push by Bethesda Both of these companies look like they haven't been worth a damn in decades, besides one game each. Now Bethesda itself, doesn't seem to really know how to make a video game. >new engine and game mechanics developed by Activision with the Modern Warfare Reboot But I want Call of Duty dead, along with Battlefield, and besides, you know very well how quickly that company becomes cheap and lazy. Honestly, what else do they have after they've ran everything else into the ground while trying to bank on buying tons of shit like Candy Crush.

>>1798224 >Now Bethesda itself, doesn't seem to really know how to make a video game. They still make video games? I thought they gave that up to make a watch or something.

>>1797483 Chinkland somewhat has hate speech laws more strict than other countries,the real difference is size, the country is simply too big,you will not even hear how they have flooded entire rural cities to save face in the past, let alone about this kind of stuff, britain is fucked but the size simply helps with the illusion.

>>1798487 On other note Australia,Canada,the UK itself are all very "china-like", it's not a coincidence they tall follow the same model from china and chinks of the biggest pushers of all that shit.

I'd be surprised if EA could become even worse, outside of destroying their few things that weren't cancer (e.g. the C&C remaster)

>>1798224 >But I want Call of Duty dead, along with Battlefield What military shooter alternatives are there?

>>1798572 there are those more simulator oriented ones like arma and ww2 ones - hell let loose and post scriptum

>>1792271 Why would some firm pay 50 billion for a dying company like EA? Aren't they just flushing their money down the toilet? How do they think they're going to make that investment back?

>>1798224 >I want them dead So do I retard, and I fucking hated Dishonored on top as well, I'm just being realistic here. These companies when by themselves had the urge to survive and would do some calculated risks in order to do so, under these predatory corps however, their death is certain.

https://archive.ph/RdHpO EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion

>>1799852 Is it on my side or is this page completely blank

>>1799857 It is blank. I searched for a snapshot and just copypasted without checking.

>>1799852 Yep, deal is final now.

>>1800002 Unless the FTC wanted to block it or something, but I can't imagine why, since its not as big as the actiblizz xbox deal. This does make me realize though that we have very few major publishers / developers that are Western. Are there any notable publishers beside Take-Two and Ubisoft that aren't just associated with microsoft/sony themselves?

>>1792522 Valve is independently owned. You don't really think of them as an indie studio as they helped define AAA with Half-Life, but they have no outside investors or owners.

>>1800014 Thq

>>1800048 Saudi PIF has 8% in Embracer/THQ so it's more of a globohomo than western despite Swedes and Americans owning more imo.

>>1800014 >Are there any notable publishers beside Take-Two and Ubisoft that aren't just associated with microsoft/sony themselves? Warner Bros. Games (WB is already planning for a restructure for them with a focus on the DC Universe, Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, and Game of Thrones, and that division will be part of the streaming & studios company when WB Discovery split in mid-2026) CD Projekt I would say Devolver Digital but Sony & NetEase already have minority stakes in them.

Welp, they did it. Now how long until the Saudis behead EA's CEO for being an infidel?

>>1800488 >Welp, they did it. Now how long until the Saudis behead EA's CEO for being an infidel? Hopefully tomorrow. It would be really funny for them to come out with a game promoting good, Muslim values.

>>1800499 Sims faggots (the literal ones) on twitter were panicking when the deal was just a rumor.

>>1800499 rape simulator?

>>1800048 >>1800454 Thanks for these. I genuinely forgot about THQ since they've seemed to become more of a AA publisher and I haven't thought about WB since I haven't played one of their games since Shadow of Mordor. I wonder if AAA games are just too capital expensive to allow publishers to reliably form. It might be another decade before we see another big publisher rise from the smaller and middling publishers in the industry.

>>1798349 Starfield bombed, they somehow pulled off making an Elder Scrolls game look uglier and put stupid shit in like body types with Oblivion remake, and when Elder Scrolls VI bombs, my money is gonna be on them running back to make a Skyrim remake and sequel. >>1798572 Honestly, they should all die with those two monsters. FPS is almost completely soulless now because of that shit. >>1799065 EA has a massive vault of corpses they can make money with, if they have their own game developers. >>1799078 >I'm just being realistic here You're being delusional about a group of companies who double and triple down on what's losing them money while never taking advantage of any traction they might end up with. Hell, EA alone deserved death over a decade ago. What's next for you, hope for Ubishit? >>1800014 >Ubisoft Aren't they practically dead if they went through with giving China control of all their biggest names? >>1800454 >Warner Bros. Games (WB is already planning for a restructure for them with a focus on the DC Universe, Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, and Game of Thrones, and that division will be part of the streaming & studios company when WB Discovery split in mid-2026) I thought Warner shut the whole thing down since they got rid of what might have been the only good developer that they owned. >CD Projekt You better hope that next Witcher game has insane gameplay because they seem to want to be in Ubisofts situation. >>1800488 Is the Satan looking guy still in that position?

>>1800454 I forgot to also mention there's also take-jew

Picrel should also be updated with new panels

>>1800708 I don't remember the last time I purchased one of their games. I think it was BF3 in 2011. Anyway, nothing will change. BF6 will be worse than previous entries, dead IPs will stay dead, and DEI will be replaced by another brand of filth.

The end of AAA games is upon us.

>>1800979 they simply grew too big, budgets for games that started famous series pale in comparison to whats being spent on advertising alone in current times

>>1798093 >jews are involved in an equity firm

>>1800979 I hope GTA6 is just totally broken on release. >>1800861 Excluding bundles that happened to include Mirror's Edge and DAO for cheap, I think the last time I ever bought a new EA game was some greatest hits re-release on GCN.

>>1798572 Like >>1798609 says, most seem to veer towards sim or tactical shooter, so not alternatives to CoD or Battlefield.

>>1800979 And that's a good thing!

>>1800648 >them running back to make a Skyrim remake and sequel Skyrim extraction shooter with lootboxes. How? Why? Because extraction shooter with lootboxes. It makes no sense? Still, extraction shooter with lootboxes.

The acquisition is $55b. Is this the largest buyout in corporate history? It makes me really question how the they (the buyers) will make this purchase worthwhile. EA already makes most of its value from scam FIFA ultimate team gambling bullshit. How the fuck do you grow the business from rock bottom?

>>1804453 >The acquisition is $55b. Is this the largest buyout in corporate history? Yes it is. This was the previous largest buyout TXU deal is largest ever leveraged buyout (It happened in 2007 btw, ain't it a coincidence that year always pops up?) https://archive.ph/pAj2o >Texas power company TXU Corp. said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group for $31.8 billion (16.2 billion pounds) in the largest leveraged buyout in history. >The investor group will pay $69.25 per share for TXU, a 15.4 percent premium over TXU's closing stock price of $60.02 on Friday. The funding of the transaction will not result in new debt at the regulated utility business, TXU said. >"It seem like a normal offer. What's mind-boggling is that it's being done by private equity," said Daniele Seitz, an analyst at Dalhman Rose, who has a "hold" rating on the stock. >Shares of TXU jumped 13.3 percent to $68 before the bell. >The deal trumps KKR's $25.1 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, announced in 1988

>>1804453 They're also taking 20 Billion debt from one of the companies buying it.

>>1804453 >how the they (the buyers) will make this purchase worthwhile Through money laundering.

>>1792298 What is a leveraged buyout, exactly? Why is it done? What does the buyer stand to gain as profit?

>>1804677 >What is a leveraged buyout, exactly? Borrowing money from a bank to buy a company, most of these businesses are based off usury after all. >Why is it done? Cover Private Equity companies debt, cut the fat off the bought company and sell it for a profit (if they are profitable and if the CEO doesn't run off with a big fat check). >What does the buyer stand to gain as a profit? The company they bought covers their debts, their workforce bloat gets layed off to maximize company value and then gets sold for a profit, or shut down while the Private Equity company rolls the dice. It's more complicated than that, but EA is now these companies toilet paper essentially. Years of not seeing any meaningful growth and Andrew Wilson seeing the state of the business and wanting out in his golden parachute. EA is dead in the water, and maybe FIFA FC Sports will survive with a skeleton crew. See also, ToysRUs, AAA is dying right in front of us, and it's glorious. https://archive.is/FZyRR

Even the whores who still support The Sims franchise are panicking over "more microtransactions" and "AI slop" (but the $500 they already have is fine?). But they also think the group (which fully supports trannies, faggots, fractional reserve banking, open borders, and globalism) is "conservative." https://archive.ph/UQ9ts https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4-stans-share-just-why-they-find-the-record-breaking-usd55-billion-ea-deal-extremely-scary-citing-everything-from-concerns-about-ai-to-potential-layoffs-and-more-microtransactions/

>>1804453 >How the fuck do you grow the business from rock bottom? >private equity >growing a business Lol. Lmao. ROFLMAO

>EA is being bought out by a saudi prince weeaboo What a timeline.

>>1805226 It is extra funny how all sides suddenly stopped (((fighting))) and are now all (((concerned))) about the Islamic owning entertainment companies in the west. It truly shows who all the controlled opposition are.

>>1805259 And as far as I know saudis aren't on bad terms with israel. And neither is America. Shows everyone what they actually think of the.

>>1805275 Think of the what? THINK OF THE WHAT?

>>1805275 >Shows everyone what they actually think of the. I think anon had a stroke before he could finish typing.

>>1805297 >>1805304 *think of them

>>1805259 Why am I supposed to be concerned about Saudis owning shit from USA? They seem to be handling football mostly fine. And it's not like either EA, or FIFA (as the association), weren't crooked or fucked prior. I'll agree that Ben Sulayem is doing some awful shit for F1, but that aside, not much really.

>>1805259 PIF and Affinity are ESG certified so it's just retards screeching for no reason.

>>1804746 Now a Faggot Age director is reading his scripted message about how "MUH PROGRESSIVE VALUES!" will be overturned and "everyone will revolt because of it" thanks to the buyout. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dragon-age/former-dragon-age-director-says-its-hard-to-imagine-bioware-pivoting-from-very-progressive-messaging-to-having-the-reverse-following-eas-usd55-billion-buyout-and-public-perception-not-being-apocalyptically-bad-if-it-did/ https://archive.ph/ZGEXR >Ex-BioWare veteran Mark Darrah – who served as a project director and executive producer on Dragon Age 1, 2, and Inquisition – has been discussing the potential impact of the proposed $55 billion buyout of EA, noting that it's "hard to imagine" the DA and Mass Effect studio shifting from "having very progressive messaging to having the reverse." >"It's hard to imagine that you have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse because it's what the government wants. It's hard to imagine that the public perception of a game that comes out of BioWare even if you do do that isn't apocalyptically bad," he suggests. "So in that case you either have to decide that you're willing to just leave it alone, or you have to think that they don't fit anymore within the goals of this new organization."

>>1805190 >t. Mr. Shekelberg

>>1794066 Battlefield is probably dead regardless. It's been too long after 9/11 to have an active HOO-RAH fanbase and market anymore.

>>1805670 >It's hard to imagine that the public perception of a game that comes out of BioWare even if you do do that isn't apocalyptically bad Does this guy live in another dimension?

>>1804453 Gut the company, sell everything not making money, keep the few things making money and crank them into overdrive. So basically, turn it into the Madden+FIFA+Battlefield Company and sell off everything else.

>>1805966 I wonder if we'll see the Square Enix selloff from EA. I wish somebody better than Embracer bought Deus Ex et al

>>1805966 They might also continue with the Sims stuff, though I am not sure what it more likely, a Sims 1 remake can't imagine how that would even work, or a Sims 5 that is worse than 4?

>>1805900 Yeah, southern California. Anything that isn't overt communist propaganda is "completely unacceptable" and "no one would ever want it."

>>1805999 They'll probably do a Sims live service.

>>1806116 4 is that already. >>1805999 (checked) A Sims without the LGBT and Star Wars bullshit would be nice, but given the kind of modders that are around for 4, they'll probably just mod that shit back in.

>>1806164 Well, Sims 4 base game is free; it's the DLC that is all individually paid. He's suggesting Sims becomes World of Warcraft.

>>1806472 >>1806116 If they do that, hopefully it has the same fate as Sim City 2013.