That’s how the whole AAA level of the games industry already works: the people at the top greenlight what they want to greenlight.
Sounds like an EA problem to me.
Having not playing an EA game in over 2 decades because they are a shitty company with shitty practices that make shitty games, fuck 'em.
Let’s hope they get what they deserve.
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 Saudi monarchy hates Islam and is shackled by it. Saudi Arabia had been on a “liberalization” plan under MBS, and it’ll be western soon enough.
They’re following UAE’s doorsteps, and they’re even worse. You can now buy alcohol in public in UAE. You need a license (pay money and don’t be Muslim) or be a tourist, but it’s otherwise unrestricted. You can already wear almost nothing and you can literally be a Zionist who calls Muslims snakes and terrorist and you’ll be welcomed on a red carpet.
Saudi wants that, they just don’t have control tight enough over their population to get away with that yet.
So yes, they will not enforce Sharia on EA games, they’re hoping one day they don’t have to do any "moral’ restrictions on content domestically. As long as it brings in money.
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.
well duh
so quit
Noshit
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. 😔
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.
Imagine buying an EA game. Smooth brains only.
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.
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
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.
