EA has been dead for over a decade honestly. With the new Saudi owners they are just being turned into a zombie.
Jamal Khashoggi
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.
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!”
If it benefits the company to lie about impending layoffs, then management will lie. It’s baffling how many people have difficulty with this concept.
I don’t know why you got downvoted. This is a valid point.
It’s almost as if people who will “toe the line” are more likely to get promoted to management. Until the leopards come for them as well.
Assurances from anyone with an MBA
What about assurances from MBS?
You better believe it.
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.
Yeah, I will stop buying, will continue boycotting and avoiding ea games
Then fucking quit?
Better yet, form a union and wreck their little purchase.
Rich greedy assholes gotta ruin everything…
Fuck EA
In 5 years someone will publish an article about how the representation of minorities in EA games fell off a cliff starting this year.
How does a literal country purchase a game studio anyway?
Let’s say you’re a monarchy. You want to help yourself to money from the state without looking corrupt. So you create a sovereign wealth fund, completely control it, and help yourself.
“shitty company finds out their newest shitty owner is shitty”
Lube up boys
EA gonna be paying the Meta tax soon so atleast people will get a pay bump while they work at Evil Arts unless they were brought just for the IP’s, then nobody gonna work there soon.
so leave. let shitty and/or immoral people join up. it’s not going to get better — why are you still there?
Ooh damn, is this about Intel? /S
“Despite assurances from management”
Who the hell believes management in this kind of situation? They’ll be looking to kow-tow to demonstrate their usefulness to the new regime.
What do they care about lying to a bunch of people beneath them that could be fired within the week?
The employees under contract are mostly assets, included in the price of their purchase. Scaring the valuable ones so they think about quitting is going to lower the value of the purchase (provided they wouldn’t get severance).
I’ve been in too many companies that have been purchased to listen to managers telling me how i should feel, verbatim from a memo.
