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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 107 points 2 days ago (5 children)

When has EA ever been in alignment with progressive society?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Ever since Dragon Age Origins? Their published games ever since then have been incredibly LGBT safe.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Wasn't that BioWare?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    EA owns BioWare, and has since 2007. Dragon Age came out in 2009.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Still was developed by BioWare and not EA.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    That's how these big companies work, they have multiple studios working on multiple games. You still expect the subsidiaries to mostly mirror the top end.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    EA will just shut down a studio if they don't like what they are doing. BioWare is mostly responsible for dragon age. EA helped but not with the original game. My brother worked on that game for months, EA was basically the distributor

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    EA hasn't written its games even going back to the MS-DOS era. It's just a publisher.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    Yes they do, they also own a bajiliiian franchises going back decades that are sitting in the scrap heap. But don't pretend they don't do their own products ever or never have.

    I've actually been inside one the studios on multiple occasions m

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go "well, looks like you're not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you're doing." And again. And again.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    They put "art" in their name, thought it was enough concessions to the unproductive concept called "culture" and then they made sure to focus on compensating this benevolent act by creating as many shitty products as possible.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Historical tangent: Electronic Arts was originally supposed to be named "Electronic Artists" (as a play on United Artists, the film company). The whole reason the company was founded was because Atari and Activision made game designers anonymous cogs in the machine. EA was like "we'll actually pay solid compensations and we'll actually put your name on the cover, how's that sound?" But, of course, the founders noticed that they weren't the artists in question, the game designers were, so they changed it.

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