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Also, even the US is not in danger of becoming a theocracy.
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Phrases like "You've bought into multiple cults" and "I think you're pretty lost. Study some history. Seek help!" are never acceptable on HN, no matter the context.
And, really, are we still arguing about masks in 2025? Nobody is changing their mind about it now. Please just let it go.
Discussion like this is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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Like them or not, EA has been a major force in gaming for over 40 years (I used to work there). They invented the term "Game Producer". Their early vision for promoting Game Designers like hollywood Directors was ahead of its time. They have a hallway lined with gold discs of million seller hit games. They basically created the casual gaming industry (The Sims Division, Pogo, Casual Divisions) in a time when games we…
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I didn’t think EA could get more evil but here we are. I remember when they were the good guys. I’d see that EA logo on my Commodore 64 load up and I knew I was in for something amazing like Archon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
Company is worth of 50 billion, while everyone hates it these days?
AAA gaming feels so tired (and tiresome) that this news barely registers for me. The last EA game I played was the excellent C&C remaster - and EA's main contribution was getting out of the way of the project. They still own the rights to a ton of legendary IP - SimCity, Command & Conquer, Battlefield, but I don't have illusions that new iterations of that IP will be any good. I know this is probably part of the Saud…
To their credit, the new Battlefield had an extremely well recieved beta and feedback from ongoing private tests is overwhelmingly positive. They're even shipping Godot based modding tools.
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You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. Phrases like "You've bought into multiple cults" and "I think you're pretty lost. Study some history. Seek help!" are never acceptable on HN, no matter the context. And, really, are we still arguing about masks in 2025? Nobody is changing their mind about it now. Please just let it go. Discussion like this is not what this site is for, and…
Am I wrong in reading this will add 20b in debt to EA the company, and not the purchasers? Because it seems like just servicing that debt will immediately put the company in a bad position.
Step 1. Take out a giant loan. Step 2. Buy a company on credit. Step 3. Stick company with the loan used to buy it. Step 4. RIF, cut costs, reduce quality, break contracts, and discontinue goods and services. Step 5. Sell everything of value. Step 6. Send that company into bankruptcy. Step 7. Rinse, lather, and repeat.
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I assume the acquisition is mostly about the sports games and Battlefield but EA really is sitting on some fantastic IP: Bioware, Westwood, and Maxis were all great studios.
I think "were" is the correct tense. EA's dictates for SimCity (2013) ended up crashing that franchise entirely, and a decade into The Sims 4, EA has admitted it's planning on endless expansion packs for Sims 4 rather than making a Sims 5, with the community largely debating whether or not the best Sims game is Sims 2 or Sims 3.
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Step 1. Take out a giant loan. Step 2. Buy a company on credit. Step 3. Stick company with the loan used to buy it. Step 4. RIF, cut costs, reduce quality, break contracts, and discontinue goods and services. Step 5. Sell everything of value. Step 6. Send that company into bankruptcy. Step 7. Rinse, lather, and repeat.
I don't understand why the creditors agree to this.