EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'

8 hours ago by Nemeski to c/games

Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.
Davel23 56 points 7 hours ago

When has EA ever been in alignment with progressive society?

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Skullgrid 22 points 7 hours ago

June 1st to June 30th. They highlight the lipsevice to LGBT stuff in dragon age

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gravitas_deficiency 9 points 4 hours ago

They’re in alignment with a sense of pride and accomplishment, I guess?

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kugmo 6 points 4 hours ago

Ever since Dragon Age Origins? Their published games ever since then have been incredibly LGBT safe.

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Jarix 5 points an hour ago

Wasn't that BioWare?

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kugmo 3 points 30 minutes ago

Published by EA, they'll allow anything that makes their investors happy and they push for that.

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iAmTheTot 3 points an hour ago

EA owns BioWare, and has since 2007. Dragon Age came out in 2009.

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oce 3 points 5 hours ago

They put "art" in their name, thought it was enough concessions to the unproductive concept called "culture" and then they made sure to focus on compensating this benevolent act by creating as many shitty products as possible.

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ElChinchilla 36 points 7 hours ago

Jamal Khashoggi

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DarkCloud 12 points 7 hours ago

Beheadings, shooting people with impunity, monarchism, modern slavery, being the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers, underaged arranged marriages, paying random women and girls from the Internet to go over there and then literally shitting on them. Buying children from Trump to sex traffic... and yes, using violence and torture to surpress journalism and political dissent.

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OwOarchist 3 points 6 hours ago

the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers

That's underselling it.

If I remember correctly, all but one of them were Saudi.

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DarkCloud 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, but I think they were mostly living in Afghanistan prior to the attack.

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ElChinchilla 3 points 3 hours ago

They all traveled through countries (passport stamped and all) deemed not allowed for Saudi Arabia > United States travel. The Saudis allowed them to move freely. That was the detail that has stuck with me from the 9/11 commission report.

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farmgineer 26 points 7 hours ago

Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society

... and EA was the bastion of rights and good treatment of people before?

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UpAndAtThem 24 points 6 hours ago

I've been 'fuck EA' for a long time, but this buyout has guaranteed I'll never touch another of their games again under any circumstances.

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OwOarchist 8 points 6 hours ago

I’ll never touch another of their games again under any circumstances.

What about the circumstance of having pirated the game?

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Buddahriffic 10 points 4 hours ago

Do they have any worth the effort?

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UpAndAtThem 5 points 2 hours ago

I'll allow it.

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orca 18 points 7 hours ago

Best thing they can do is quit. Tech workers that continue to stay employed at places like this and military contractors, have no excuse.

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femtek 27 points 7 hours ago

I mean paying for your place and food till you get a different job seems like a reason.

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BeanGoblin 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah the job market is abysmal right now. I can't blame them at all if they have nowhere else to go.

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DrCake 13 points 7 hours ago

Have you seen the state of the games industry? Layoffs everywhere, not sure there’s too many places to jump ship to

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minorkeys 9 points 7 hours ago

Because affording housing and food is such a non-excuse. AI and mass tech layoffs already, but hey, throw away your job before you have a new one just to appease the morally injured. Same shit in every industry.

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HarkMahlberg 4 points 4 hours ago

I want you to know it did not take me long to find this.

Yeah, this can’t be a partisan thing. That’s just feeding into the same nonsense division governments manufacture. It has to cross those aisles and educate folks on the fact that all working class are in the same battle against the same collective ruling class around the world. We’re seeing authoritarian regimes forming around the world and they are working together. We have to do the same.

You, 2 weeks ago. Emphasis mine.

So worker solidarity and all that, but "employees who don't hold shares, including many who are classified as "'temporary fulltime,'" don't count. Just like they don't count for healthcare and labor protections. They're just villains eh?

Well, one way or another, I agree with something you said. It's just unfortunate you don't.

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Tollana1234567 3 points 2 hours ago

gaming and the tech market arnt exactly hiring in large numbers anymore. they might not even find another job if they quit.

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mycodesucks 16 points 4 hours ago

Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.

Assurances from anyone with an MBA are worth less than nothing. They are professional liars. They pretend they aren't with the bullshit "optimism isn't lies", except it absolutely is when you KNOW your optimistic interpretation is bullshit. It's like that Dr. Nick bit.

Dr. Nick: "With my diet, you can eat anything you want, any time you want!"

Marge: "And you'll lose weight?"

Dr. Nick: "You might! It's a free country!"

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Malyca 14 points 2 hours ago

I mean, you were working for ea

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switcheroo 9 points 4 hours ago

Rich greedy assholes gotta ruin everything...

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WanderWisley 5 points 28 minutes ago

EA has been dead for over a decade honestly. With the new Saudi owners they are just being turned into a zombie.

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hopesdead 4 points 6 hours ago

You are the fucking problem if you have stuck around this long. Seriously, the Battlefront II remake was the last straw for me.

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normonator 2 points 4 hours ago

Better late than never.

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MantisToboggon 4 points 7 hours ago

Lube up boys

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orenj 4 points an hour ago

Isn't EA mathematically doomed to die off due to the absurd amount of profit they need to pay off the debt the saudis put on them so that they could own them? Like, who cares about actually working there, you're as good as already laid off. The sword of damocles is swinging.

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KindnessIsPunk 2 points 4 hours ago

Ooh damn, is this about Intel? /S

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