I’m going to get downvoted to oblivion, I’m fully aware.
There are many things I don’t know anything about. But I do know a fair bit about this area.
And with great respect to the worriers, this just will not happen.
The investment team that’s bought EA have many other “western” investments they’ve never interfered with, even though they do a great deal of things that the orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia would disagree with. The layers between “what I [claim] to believe” and “make me the most amount of money” are many and includes people from all over the world. If anyone thinks Saudi royalty will sit and make determinations about what games EA will ship they can stop worrying right now. The Saudi monarchy is worrying about two things only: As much money as possible and staying in power.
This is an investments like so many others. It will be ordered to profit-maximise - and if that requires one-upping Doom in gore, and shipping a new edition of Gay Paradise 2000 every 6 months - they will do exactly that.
This is a complete storm in a tea cup.
The gay Sims are going to have a really bad time when the public beheading update comes.
Imagine buying an EA game. Smooth brains only.
Never been a big EA fan. … only titles I’ve played is the first couple need for speeds. Battlefield, dead space and NCAA football. Before it was discontinued I’d buy it almost every year.
I purchased the first year it came back but haven’t purchased one since.
I’ve had a personal EA boycott going for over 10 year snow. One of the best decisions I’ve made and I’ve never regretted it once.
The only time I “regretted” it was when I bought KOTOR 1 off steam, then I saw the EA credits and I used the refund policy to say “I bought this against my boycott and I didn’t know EA was involved”.
I got my money back.
My wife is glad Paralives is out so she can ignore The Sims.
Its way better and more inclusive.
Just keep re-releasing sport games every year with updated lineups like you’ve been doing and you’ll be fine.
If I was an EA employee my biggest fear would be to be cut up into tiny pieces for disagreeing with the boss. Like jamal khashoggi
Surely, they’ll approve a 9/11 flight simulator.
With a bonus level of chopping up journalists in hotel rooms?
Could you explain what you mean?
Mostly Saudi citizens were the perpetrators of 9/11 and there was a lot of suspicion that the government was involved, either through planning or funding.
Ah thanks, I wasn’t aware that the Saudi Government was involved
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jamal khashoggi
They’ll just make a new Call of Duty series where you defend Aramco oil assets from terrorist invaders.
um sweaty it’s called battlefield, CoD is owned by Activison which is run by the Epstein affilicated people like Bobby Kotick , and not the journalist murdering saudis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi
Noshit
I doubt they can make EA any worse.
Ah ye of little faith. Rest assured, it can always get worse, as we will soon learn.
What game is it that they’ve got in mind that is likely to be killed off? If we were talking about the EA of old then sure they would have had a point but the new corporate EA that’s been around for the last two decades doesn’t have anything that could be considered controversial.
Women being allowed to be in public without a male guardian is controversial in Saudi Arabia, dude. It’s not going to take much.
Which EA game is that again?
Outside ™
The Sims has gay people in it. Saudi Arabia really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really doesn’t like gay people.
Oh we’re gonna see same sex relation censor patches soon for sure.
Weird. I think they like them a lot more than they let on (sandy sexy secrets).
Maybe the next Sims won’t fuck anymore? Or the women won’t get to be as extravagant as in previous versions ?
Saudi killing off EA’s cash cow because of Sharia would be pretty funny.
Just imagine the sharia mod of the Sims… heads be rolling…
The female sims will have a fulfilling existence, just limited to the confines of their home and subject to their husband’s authority. /s
Let’s hope we can flog them if they don’t obey as well then :) And cut a bunch of hands when catching something stealing some bread out of the bin. And beheadings all those dudes looking vaguely gay or too secular.
Just like the good ol’ days in the Bronze Age.
Could you imagine? Having art and media freedom hindered by the bigoted, imperialistic values of an authoritarian regime?
Anyway, hope this doesn’t effect the Battlefield series. 😔
well duh
so quit
They aren’t concerned about being owned by Trump’s family too?
They own the Trump’s, not the other way around
EA owns the Trumps?
Isn’t EA the company recently making headlines for being a power and money-hungry greed machine pushing the inshittification of the digital world and subscription-based life?
Gosh it sucks when someone with more leverage institutes unreasonable and unprecedented restrictions and demands, huh? The narcissism mind-virus is insane.
Recently? The last like 7 generations of “sport-year” games are all the same game.
