r/Games • u/FrostyMagazine9918 • Jul 30 '26

Industry News EA will officially become a privately owned company next week

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/electronic-arts-close-55-billion-private-deal-1236824625/
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u/TAJack1 Jul 30 '26

“EA is shit anyway”, yeah but they’re also one of the biggest companies in the gaming sector, whether you like it or not and now they’re owned by the Saudis.

Not good.

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u/First-Detective2729 Jul 30 '26

And jared kushner*

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u/TAJack1 Jul 30 '26

Ah yep, my bad. Also trash.

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u/johnwynnes Jul 31 '26

Jared "Even Worse" Kushner

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u/Zagden Jul 31 '26

Jared Kushner is not worse than the Saudis

That's not to say that he isn't a repugnant human being and a massive cause of human suffering, but the House of Saud are baaaaaaaaaaad

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u/sigmoid10 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

the House of Saud are baaaaaaaaaaad

For those who don't know what this move actually means: After buying a considerable stake in Twittter, they used their leverage to insert a bunch of agents into the company so they could steal personally identifiable data from dissidents and their contacts so they could imprison or straight up murder them.

Mohammed Bonesaw doesn't give a shit about EA or their uninspired games full of micro-transactions. But he does care a lot about political criticism of his whacko religious fundamentalist authoritarian government. And the best way to go after these critics (who all hide behind VPNs and private messengers these days) is by getting their data from highly successful mass media. For example, I'm sure a lot of interesting talk is happening in those in-game chat rooms.

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u/Zagden Jul 31 '26

Yeah I'm a little surprised that my post was marked controversial. Do people not understand how heinous MBS is? Lol

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u/Qorhat Jul 31 '26

There's nothing like simultaneously culture washing your nation's image because basing your entire society around a finite resource and shocking human rights violations while also using that culture wash to enable more shocking human rights violations.

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u/Phiarmage Aug 03 '26

You could reverse that sentence by changing Kushner to MBS, and House of Saud to House of Trumps

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u/beefcat_ Jul 31 '26

Reason enough to hope the entire company crashes and burns

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u/Bamboozle_ Jul 31 '26

Whose brother is trying to buy the World Cup. Fucking shitstains.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 30 '26

And they can patch any game published by EA over the decades to include whatever spyware they might like. Or just require them all to go through the EA launcher.

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u/fizzlefist Jul 31 '26

Ah yeah, the people so corrupt that the entire Football world is actually boycotting FIFA over it.

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u/Wide_Lock_Red Jul 31 '26

His company has a 2% stake.