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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Has EA really made creative games recently though? I'm looking at their recent games list and it's mostly: Madden, EA Sports, The Sims 4 DLC, NHL, Battlefield, Plants vs Zombies, etc. Sequels and remakes basically. With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.

Like, if you're going to buy any company, the one where you make almost the exact same game every year and everyone still buys it is probably a safe bet.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I kind of hope they make a Sims 5 that has limits on what female characters can aspire to, no LGBT+ relationships, etc, purely for the backlash that would ensue. It's a big ecosystem that they could really screw up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    With notable exceptions by subsidiary companies like Split Fiction.

    Yeah. No they haven't.

    EA is just a big bundle that they were able to buy at all with a huge pile of cash. Going around the globe, chasing studios that do this and that is a ton of work and takes forever and is not really a good strategy.

    I think they're betting on exactly that recurring structure of licensed sports games.

    But that still depends on letting artists do some amount of stuff. For example a bunch of sports outfits may clash with strict Islam. Same for Sims.

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