Whats going to be the future of EA?

So making games more expensive is a real way to get people to keep buying

You want the game with your game? 50% of price as story DLC... Other 50% for 1 year of multiplayer...

Oh, what does the game include by default? Well, start screen?

The acquisition won't be finalized til 2027, so it's likely business as usual for awhile. I expect that they'll be putting most of the investment into sports games starting next year, more so than they already are now. The Star Wars license is likely going to be a huge deal to them as well. They likely will do a Star Wars Battlefront 2 Remastered with new content and features and if that does well then Battlefront 3 will likely be on the table.

Also on a side note here's the steam profile of the prince that bought EA lmfao? XDD https://steamcommunity.com/id/Abdullah_Al_Saud

I very much doubt it, but if it's true, he's also on SteamGifts and has won some... interesting games. ^^

I'm just hoping this owner will finally use that Magic Carpet license EA has been sitting on ever since buying Bullfrog in 1995

My personal prediction is that they're gonna go even harder on prioritizing only the franchises that make bank and abandon the smaller series altogether, and maybe also the ones that haven't been doing all that well recently. I'm getting to terms with the reality that I'll likely never see a third Mirror's Edge game, and wouldn't be surprised at all if Need for Speed is over too.

I hope they do not shut down old Codemaster's racing game servers

I expect games with propoganda if they really get bought by the Saudi dude

EA and its future doesn't really bother me. Their past titles are around and available, so things are set.

how does a company that make a billion (or less) every year expects to pay 20 billion? Good luck lol

From them I only care about next Jedi game from Respawn and EA Originals program. For the rest I doubt it will change much for the end user, in my opinion it could only get better from here or stay the same.

I worry about what will happen to our data and games. I don't trust this new purchase to not affect EA in a much more negative or sinister way.

Cant be worse than it is?

Maybe they just stop running -95% sales on Battlefield and NFS?

My guess is they'll promote GaaS (games as a service) even more because that's making them the most money. Personally, I'm not overly exposed with my EA account holding a handful of games but I worry about possible privacy violations and an even bolder move to monetize every aspect of their franchises in a most exploitative way.

The fact they're leveraged doesn't actually mean anything.

Steam charges 30% from devs despite being a private company which certainly has no debt(they're almost printing money). Epic has much lower fees, gives away titles and loses money left and right. Of course, they're in vastly different situations but you shouldn't infer that they'll try to fix their financial situation by raising prices

Saudis are trying to divest from oil & into different markets. They are not concerned about profits. Nobody building a
desert ski resort in the middle of nowhere on a trillion-dollar project is concerned about profits

Well, EA has to find 20 millions of dollars to pay for being sold (thanks to leveraged buyout), so I guess they'll die like tons of others leveraged-buyout companies that have to sell assets and IPs to cover the cost of their own purchase.
That or Saudis will eat that cost by requiring each game to be an advertisement for them...

Bioware is toast and if they end up giving mass effect or dragon age to another team I would expect no LGBT relationships anymore.

Worst case, the old EA games are out there. I honestly don't have much hope for this deal. BUT, at the cost of getting some hate for saying this, maybe this could be an opportunity for the dev teams belonging to EA to actually be allowed to make the games they wanted instead of doing things to please the shareholders ( not going to happen cause then how can they make money ,ha) And with this deal the prince should in theory have the rights for all EA games right? That's quite a lot of ways to make money with their sport games and Sims alone.
Also weren't the Saudis investing in eSports? They could also gain quite a lot with this holding the monopol over sport games.
And if things go well, then things go well . shrugs

Good thing EA doesn't own Hazelight

The sports franchises will be safe. Most everything else will be shuttered or sold. Would be my guess.

Considering it's been acquired by the Saudi's and Trumps son in law, I'd say the future for EA looks like shit in many forms and you should avoid any game that comes from them once the transfer happens in 2027.

I'm expecting more and pushier microtransactions, loss of certain studios/games(kinda deserved after Dragon Age slop Bioware) and shadier practices.

Also in OP's main post, there ain't no way that's the guy.

OF course B6 failed. It was the same exact game as ever other multiplayer war shooter. Idk why companies keep putting money into these things. We have enough war shooters Imagine teh 500+ cool game ideas right on their desk and they dont green light it

EA will become Fox News/Saudi Al-Jazeera for gamers.