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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.

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.

Imagine buying an EA game. Smooth brains only.

Noshit

They'll just make a new Call of Duty series where you defend Aramco oil assets from terrorist invaders.

well duh

so quit

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

tuff shit. Next time try to make game ppl wanna play. kinda incredible how the last great/ inovative game from ea was fucking bf1 tiresome to have dev play the gamer are mean and need to be educated and then do a 180 being like im affraid for my job.

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. 😔

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.

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.

Surely, they’ll approve a 9/11 flight simulator.

I doubt they can make EA any worse.

🤦 "bad slave, the truth makes me look bad"

They aren't concerned about being owned by Trump's family too?

Lol Lmao even

It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.

But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.

This will 100% happen. Hell, I couldn’t even leave a critical google review of a nearby middle eastern hotel because of government censorship.

Bosses cashed out and left the carcas to rot

Imagine a game like Lara Croft, but the main character wears a Burqua.

Maybe, but I don't think the Saudi rulers are lead particularly by belief. That's just some physical world nonsense to keep the plebs in check.

What leads them is money, and the fear that all that oil money they've relied on for the last 100 years or so is going to run out at some point.

That's why games like It Takes Two and Mass Effect will be culled. That's why it'll be wall-to-wall live-service war-slop and sports-slop until the day everyone with even a hint of creativity quits, and then it carries on anyway in a shambling AI form. And people will still lap it up.