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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago

EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"

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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"

www.gamesradar.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago
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"It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"
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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    Just keep re-releasing sport games every year with updated lineups like you’ve been doing and you’ll be fine.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    🤦 “bad slave, the truth makes me look bad”

  • Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    Noshit

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    well duh

    so quit

  • systemglitch@lemmy.world
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    Imagine buying an EA game. Smooth brains only.

    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
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      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.

  • orioler25@lemmy.world
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    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. 😔

  • bigmamoth@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

  • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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      Recently? The last like 7 generations of “sport-year” games are all the same game.

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    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

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    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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Women being allowed to be in public without a male guardian is controversial in Saudi Arabia, dude. It’s not going to take much.

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        Which EA game is that again?

        • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net
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          Outside ™

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

      • lemmelemmy@feddit.org
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        Oh we’re gonna see same sex relation censor patches soon for sure.

      • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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        Weird. I think they like them a lot more than they let on (sandy sexy secrets).

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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      Maybe the next Sims won’t fuck anymore? Or the women won’t get to be as extravagant as in previous versions ?

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        Saudi killing off EA’s cash cow because of Sharia would be pretty funny.

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          Just imagine the sharia mod of the Sims… heads be rolling…

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        The female sims will have a fulfilling existence, just limited to the confines of their home and subject to their husband’s authority. /s

        • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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          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.

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    Lol Lmao even

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    I doubt they can make EA any worse.

    • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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      Ah ye of little faith. Rest assured, it can always get worse, as we will soon learn.

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

    • Codpiece@feddit.uk
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      With a bonus level of chopping up journalists in hotel rooms?

    • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
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      Could you explain what you mean?

      • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world
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        jamal khashoggi

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        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.

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          Ah thanks, I wasn’t aware that the Saudi Government was involved

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          deleted by creator

      • green_goglin@thelemmy.club
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        https://www.axios.com/2025/11/21/911-families-lawsuit-links-saudi-officials-to-plot-despite-princes-denial

        https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/evidence-of-financial-links-between-saudi-royal-family-and-al-qaeda

        https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/declassified-report-saudi-ties-september-11

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    Woaw, never coulda seen that coming.

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