EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm (www.pcgamer.com)
from inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 04:33
https://lemmy.world/post/36671523

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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 04:50 next collapse

Even if true not particularly encouraging

CityPop@lemmy.today on 30 Sep 04:51 next collapse

They’re both aligned on fucking over people for profit.

TommySoda@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 04:57 next collapse

Not gonna lie, I was pretty stoked for Battlefield 6. Haven’t played one since 3 and all my friends were gonna get it. Guess I’ll just go fuck myself and keeping playing Overwatch or something.

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org on 30 Sep 05:09 next collapse

I played the beta weekends. I can assure you anything fun will be nerfed, because all the fun stuff was what the sweaty basement boys were complaining about the most. You’re not going to miss out on much of the final product.

TommySoda@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:34 collapse

I played it too and I 100% agree. However, I feel like it’s always a good thing to keep in mind that the best time to play an online shooter is when it first comes out. That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left. My friends convinced me to try Fortnite just a couple years ago and all that happened was I got stomped every match and was like “this is fun for you guys?” I’ve been playing Overwatch since release and it’s basically impossible to get a match I’d consider “fun,” so to speak. I just wanted to get in on the fun for Battlefield before it turned into all sweats. Now I’d prefer to just avoid it all together.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Sep 09:09 collapse

That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left.

As an enthusiastic but inept gamer with overactive sweat glands, I object to being lumped in with the overcompetitive fun killers! 😁

Tbf though, I don’t even play shooters in the first place. Unless you (wrongly) count the modern Fallout games, like some do.

Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 30 Sep 08:03 next collapse

I’ve been hooked on The Finals for my destruction shooter fix, since the development team (Embark Studios) is mostly composed of ex-DICE employees. Their upcoming game Arc Raiders also looks pretty good.

Edit: typo fix

dan1101@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 12:34 next collapse

I was stoked for BF6 until it wanted me to enable Secure Boot and install rootkit anti-cheat. Now with the Saudis and Jared Kushner in charge installing a rootkit to play a game is an even worse idea. Maybe if I only used the computer for gaming.

Lfrith@lemmy.ca on 30 Sep 13:03 collapse

Finals has superior destruction anyways.

teft@piefed.social on 30 Sep 05:08 next collapse

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edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:12 next collapse

Can’t change what doesn’t exist

ech@lemmy.ca on 30 Sep 05:16 next collapse

They all value money over everything else, so that tracks.

blave@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:23 next collapse

It’s nice to know he’s a pathological liar right off the bat

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:43 next collapse

EA has no values, because they’re a soulless, shit hole company, so they’re not lying (this time), I guess.

DandomRude@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:48 next collapse

It’s fitting that EA now belongs to a despotic regime and the spoiled son-in-law of a despot. It couldn’t be more telling.

I won’t be buying anything from them anymore.

Jivebunny@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 14:28 collapse

funny how I have not bought any of their games for a long time now, since it’s mostly slop anyways nowadays

DandomRude@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 14:42 collapse

That’s true, but now it’s also autocrat slop, which in my opinion disqualifies this company once and for all.

switcheroo@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 05:48 next collapse

Let’s do what we do best: boycott this shit. Don’t buy. Not that anyone was buying in the first place lol

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org on 30 Sep 06:10 next collapse

Tell that the FIFA people who buy billions worth of lootboxes

tahoe@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 06:41 next collapse

*anyone on Lemmy

cRazi_man@europe.pub on 30 Sep 06:43 next collapse

Our tiny community squeaks into the void while normies continue to pick up pre releases and loot boxes like crazy.

jonathan@piefed.social on 30 Sep 07:33 collapse

“what we do best” we’re really fucking bad at boycotts, what are you talking about.

blargle@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 06:07 next collapse

If true… that is not saying what they were trying to say about their current company values.

Korkki@lemmy.ml on 30 Sep 06:18 next collapse

look at the bright side. EA couldn’t get any worse anyway. If it dies because of this then this event might be seen as a boon to humanity.

TheBat@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 06:30 next collapse

Delete your EA accounts if you haven’t already.

ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk on 30 Sep 12:50 collapse

At the very least, spoil the data that they hold on file for you.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 06:42 next collapse

Go fuck yourselves you greedy corporate colostomy bags.

Hopefully this shreds EA and their IPs to bits and we finally get some new and original ideas from the indie studios that pop up from the ruins.

AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 30 Sep 06:45 next collapse

lol values

natecox@programming.dev on 30 Sep 06:46 next collapse

Fuck EA.

Linktank@lemmy.today on 30 Sep 07:02 next collapse

What he means is that they will still be a pos company that only cares about the bottom line and COULD NOT care less about the end user. Exactly the same.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 07:14 next collapse

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jaybone@lemmy.zip on 30 Sep 07:18 next collapse

lol haha lmao.

Oh tkey’re serious? Ok. Sure.

NoPanko@feddit.uk on 30 Sep 09:02 collapse

EAs “values” were already pretty nonexistent so I believe them

ceph@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 07:47 next collapse

So, more of the same or worse.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 08:13 next collapse

Looks like I’ll be going from not playing EA games to not playing EA games.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 30 Sep 09:04 next collapse

I believe that. EA didn’t have values before and will continue to not have them now.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today on 30 Sep 09:32 next collapse

So still no reason to buy? Gotcha!

Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 09:35 next collapse

So, just the same soulless cash grabs as usual going forward?

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 14:33 collapse

Soulless cash grab with a healthy veneer of jingoism and plenty of toxic masculinity.

You’ll play your Muscle Man Beats Up The Evil Foreigners game, you’ll pay top dollar for it, and if you’re lucky you’ll get a loot box with a Trump/MBS NFT in it.

ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 10:28 next collapse

Wake the fuck up

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Sep 10:43 next collapse

“We value taking advantage of young children with lootboxes, pay to win, loads of DLC’s to make games have actual content (still shit) and to find new ways to extort kids out of even more money than we have done so far. We believe our new leadership consisting of an extremist genocide supporting asshole and a regime where stoning women is normal won’t change our values but would only support them.”

Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 12:40 next collapse

Sure, they’ll just now promote games where Nazis and religious fundies murder journalists and gender minorities

ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk on 30 Sep 12:47 next collapse

“Our values have always been terrible. Expect no change.”

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 30 Sep 13:18 next collapse

Hey, at least EA has not had a journalist dismembered… yet.

Sabata11792@ani.social on 30 Sep 13:19 collapse

They must have dismembered the witnesses too. Knowing EA, they sold the organs in loot boxes.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 13:30 next collapse

“Thank you for buying our game!” “Please sign in and give us all your personal information to play.” -Saudi ArabEA

Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 13:33 next collapse

Well, okay then. I doubt that I have any EA games on my roster, but I’ll go through and give it a diligent scrubbing, just to be on the safe side.

mhague@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 14:47 next collapse

Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.

After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 14:57 next collapse

More like: Damn, there’s another level of hell?

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 17:04 next collapse

Well there was just some base level of hope in the back of some people’s minds that one day they might get their shit together and now that hope is entirely gone.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 23:18 collapse

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.

mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online on 30 Sep 15:22 next collapse

Their bottom line of money making remains unchanged. Now, Kushner and the Saudi Royal Family will also be involved… and this is a mess waiting to happen.

Absolute BS from Wilson here.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 16:04 next collapse

“I mean, they can’t get any worse, right?”

Spoiler alert: They can.

Don’t buy anything from EA, ever again.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 16:19 next collapse

Well, that’s quite the bold-faced lie.

My 11+ year old boycott of EA is looking smarter & smarter every day.

Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip on 30 Sep 16:37 next collapse

Well yeah cause their company values are all just money and ways to make even more money. Nothing else.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca on 30 Sep 16:51 next collapse

Ah, I’m so relieved. For a second I thought they were going to stop being absolute dog shit.

BastingChemina@slrpnk.net on 30 Sep 17:01 next collapse

This is what I just saw on my thread:

<img alt="1000059273" src="https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/69d2c5be-b71f-427a-9c96-c96e81e3b247.jpeg">

Who need satire at this point?

Kelcho@lemmy.zip on 30 Sep 18:22 next collapse

What a bunch of losers. Battlefield 6 will definitely be my last EA game

SaneMartigan@aussie.zone on 30 Sep 22:08 next collapse

I’m not getting it at this point. I was already hesitant as it was the only thing keeping me in Windows 11 but now that it’s also coming with Kushner root kits - I’m out.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 22:21 collapse

Desert Strike was my last.

notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 18:48 next collapse

So you’ll continue being a money sucking ghoul who infects my hobby with more and more micro transactions for things that should have been shipped with the game in the first place?

Phew, I was worried there for a sec I might have to credit SA or a fucking Kushner for fixing one of the shittiest publishers in gaming, nice to know they can remain on “pirate if it looks good” list.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 22:20 next collapse

You know, I didn’t doubt that for a single second.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 30 Sep 22:41 next collapse

Thats not a good sign. I’m choosing to take that as EAs values were already so bad that nothing is going to change after being taken over by a trump Saudi investment firm.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Oct 02:53 collapse

I’m choosing to read it as “we only bought it to get kernel-level access to millions of computers. Don’t worry about why we want that.”

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone on 30 Sep 22:54 next collapse

That’s easy when you don’t have any values.

Tronn4@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 02:22 next collapse

Values: money grab

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip on 01 Oct 02:48 next collapse

So EA had poor values before and will continue to have poor values in the future. Got it.

kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Oct 02:58 next collapse

Good news, everyone! EA are still going to be profiteering shitbags who nickle and dime customers with season passes and loot boxes for content that already exists in the code.

drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works on 01 Oct 03:15 next collapse

Yeah we know

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 03:28 next collapse

The thing is EA is supposedly one of the most stable and most high-benefit positions in the industry.

Well thats about to change

Jumi@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 04:25 next collapse

I’ve been boycotting them since before Battlefront 3 and I’m not stopping now

Timberfang@pawb.social on 01 Oct 15:34 collapse

At least they (hopefully) won’t be getting even worse?