EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
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https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ea-ceo-says-company-values-will-remain-unchanged-under-the-new-ownership-of-saudi-arabia-and-jared-kushners-investment-firm/Open linkView original on lemmy.world363
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They’re both aligned on fucking over people for profit.
EA has no values, because they're a soulless, shit hole company, so they're not lying (this time), I guess.
I wouldn't trust EA not to skip a chance to lie. They're probably going to make their "values" even more subhuman.
I believe that. EA didn't have values before and will continue to not have them now.
"Our values have always been terrible. Expect no change."
Even if true not particularly encouraging
They all value money over everything else, so that tracks.
Can't change what doesn't exist
So EA had poor values before and will continue to have poor values in the future. Got it.
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.
funny how I have not bought any of their games for a long time now, since it's mostly slop anyways nowadays
That's true, but now it's also autocrat slop, which in my opinion disqualifies this company once and for all.
Hey, at least EA has not had a journalist dismembered... yet.
They must have dismembered the witnesses too. Knowing EA, they sold the organs in loot boxes.
So, just the same soulless cash grabs as usual going forward?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This is what I just saw on my thread:
Who need satire at this point?
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.
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.
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.”
Ah, I'm so relieved. For a second I thought they were going to stop being absolute dog shit.
That’s easy when you don’t have any values.
Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.
After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!
More like: Damn, there's another level of hell?
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.
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.
So still no reason to buy? Gotcha!
Let's do what we do best: boycott this shit. Don't buy. Not that anyone was buying in the first place lol
"what we do best" we're really fucking bad at boycotts, what are you talking about.
Tell that the FIFA people who buy billions worth of lootboxes
Our tiny community squeaks into the void while normies continue to pick up pre releases and loot boxes like crazy.
*anyone on Lemmy
I've been boycotting them since before Battlefront 3 and I'm not stopping now
Well, that's quite the bold-faced lie.
My 11+ year old boycott of EA is looking smarter & smarter every day.
Values: money grab
You know, I didn't doubt that for a single second.
“Thank you for buying our game!” “Please sign in and give us all your personal information to play.” -Saudi ArabEA
lol haha lmao.
Oh tkey’re serious? Ok. Sure.
EAs “values” were already pretty nonexistent so I believe them
Looks like I'll be going from not playing EA games to not playing EA games.
It’s nice to know he’s a pathological liar right off the bat
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.
The thing is EA is supposedly one of the most stable and most high-benefit positions in the industry.
Well thats about to change
Well yeah cause their company values are all just money and ways to make even more money. Nothing else.
What a bunch of losers. Battlefield 6 will definitely be my last EA game
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.
Desert Strike was my last.
Yeah we know
At least they (hopefully) won't be getting even worse?
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.
"I mean, they can't get any worse, right?"
Spoiler alert: They can.
Don't buy anything from EA, ever again.
So, more of the same or worse.
If true... that is not saying what they were trying to say about their current company values.
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.
At the very least, spoil the data that they hold on file for you.
"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."
Wake the fuck up
lol values
Sure, they'll just now promote games where Nazis and religious fundies murder journalists and gender minorities