Netflix Considered Buying EA

6 months ago by Nemeski to c/games

Before going after Warner Bros., Netflix reportedly showed interest in buying EA and two other movie studios.
9point6 88 points 6 months ago

Kinda funny how much media is out there warning about the folly of allowing this kind of mega conglomeration, yet we're still gonna just do it anyway

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maxprime 30 points 6 months ago

Line. Go. Up.

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avg 24 points 6 months ago

Democrats are too chicken shit to go breaking up monopolies, republicans have sold their souls to corporations so why wouldn't you, as a corporation, try to buy up everything you can while no one is there to stop you.

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mushroomman_toad 14 points 6 months ago

FTC got started on it under Biden

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Bakkoda 1 point 6 months ago

You think this started recently? Or is that just what you have to say.

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mycodesucks 22 points 6 months ago

Why start making good decisions now?

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remon 34 points 6 months ago

Didn't the Saudis just buy that?

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ThePantser 27 points 6 months ago

"Saudis consider buying Netflix"

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Thorry 9 points 6 months ago

Yes it's called money laundering.

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ChicoSuave 3 points 6 months ago path: 0 20905724 20910353, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Dojan 2 points 6 months ago

And Trump.

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the_riviera_kid 24 points 6 months ago

I mean why not? EA has already enshittified itself years ago, it would have saved netflix the trouble of doing it themselves.

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Bbbbbbbbbbb 3 points 6 months ago

Saudis got it

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Quacksalber 2 points 6 months ago

No more FemShep on Liara action, that's banned now. Future ME games will only feature the Quarrians, because they are already "veiled".

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superglue 2 points 6 months ago

I wish they would take Madden away from EA every single year its a pile on garbage

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Zapados 17 points 6 months ago

How long until the Saudis buy Netflix?

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calliope 15 points 6 months ago

This is starting to feel like advertising for Netflix.

Even before they bought one of the most passed-around media companies (Warner was owned by AOL, for god’s sake), the media wouldn’t shut up about the possibility of Netflix owning things.

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atomicbocks 8 points 6 months ago

You are confusing WarnerMedia with Warner Bros. Warner Bros. is the movie studio, WarnerMedia is the now defunct remains of AOL TimeWarner that was bought and then disseminated by AT&T.

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calliope 3 points 6 months ago

I’m not sure I follow.

WarnerMedia owned Warner Bros from 1990-2022. WarnerMedia was called WarnerMedia because they owned Warner Bros.

It’s the same company, since the 1970s. Kinney Corporation merged with Warner to become Warner Communications. They owned… Warner Bros.

Warner Communications became WarnerMedia. They owned Warner Bros. Source.

In 1990, they merged with Time and became Time Warner. And so on. Again, it was called AOL Time Warner because they owned Warner Bros.

You can also see it on the Warner Bros. page under “parent”

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atomicbocks 5 points 6 months ago

Warner merged with AOL, so you meant Warner Bros was owned by AOL not Warner. That’s what I was trying to point out.

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calliope 4 points 6 months ago

Ah got it!

It’s honestly crazy how many companies it’s been attached to

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SCmSTR 10 points 6 months ago

Hey Netflix, if you have so much money to burn, stop being so evil.

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fckreddit 3 points 6 months ago

But, line must go up, at any cost.

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fckreddit 6 points 6 months ago

Well, so did I. /s

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voytrekk 3 points 6 months ago

I did too. I was just missing billions of dollars.

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fckreddit 2 points 6 months ago

Same. :(

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