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The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

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Re: The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

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This is being bought by Affinity Partners, the same Kushner led group that’s trying to buy out FIFA? Is the Trump family just going to own all of our entertainment and military companies?

Uh, nobody is trying to buy out FIFA....

I’m sorry, just the World Cup. And looks like they backed off the plan after the pushback from the member organizations of FIFA got too hot.

Re: The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

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>They're buying influence. Buying EA for influence? With the reputation EA has in gaming? They're a joke - they're not influencing anything. Its like buying a violin to fix a flat tire.

They make all the sports games. Have you noticed all the sports and Mr. Beast type slop that's like "Wow and here we are inn Dubai / Saudi Arabia whatever and it's beautiful and luxurious and we're driving in Lambos waooowww" If product placement didn't work it wouldn't be an industry

Do you think there's a realistic future where the money paid for EA could possibly be recouped with product placement?

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In spite of all the hate, I like that Blizzard's games don't use super nasty DRMs (like Denuvo, which EA, Ubisoft and many others use), all their games work perfectly under Linux (Wine/Proton), and they still host live download links to a game that's nearly three decades old (Diablo 2). Like literally yesterday I set up a new Linux laptop and was about to install Project Diablo 2 under Steam, and was pleasantly surpr…

Yeah, Ubisoft... one of the most depressing game-related events for me was when they took over one of my all-time favorite franchises, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, when 3DO sadly went bankrupt.

Olden Era is really good, it's kind of a spiritual successor to HoMM3.

Re: The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

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Yeah, Ubisoft... one of the most depressing game-related events for me was when they took over one of my all-time favorite franchises, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, when 3DO sadly went bankrupt.

Olden Era is really good, it's kind of a spiritual successor to HoMM3.

Thanks for the rec - I'll check it ou!

What I really want (I know I'll never get it) - is a sequel with the charming pixel art graphics of HOMM2 and the game mechanics of HOMM3.

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