EA staff fear Saudi ownership will censor game projects
Employees worry new Saudi Arabian owners will block games that don't align with government preferences.
What to know
- EA employees fear new Saudi Arabian ownership will censor game projects based on political alignment rather than creative merit.
- Staff worry that games not conforming to Saudi government values will be rejected from approval and development.
- The acquisition raises questions about creative freedom and editorial control under foreign state ownership.
This is standard corporate behavior driven by profit and shareholder interests, not unique to Saudi ownership.
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“Are they dipshits or just doing what capitalists do? Fuck over their company and customers to personally enrich their own personal profits.”
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- Aug 20
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We can speak in Spanish it you want, you'll realize that my grammar is flawless in those languages that I speak natively. But you're just derailing the discussion because you're not looking for a productive discussion
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We probably need to agree to disagree here. However, where are we separating “the devs” from “executives”? I don’t know that we need to hash out specifically, but I’d argue that EA pressuring BioWare to produce on a schedule and BioWare pressuring the DA team to produce on EAs schedule really are the same thing.
- Aug 19
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Are they dipshits or just doing what capitalists do? Fuck over their company and customers to personally enrich their own personal profits.