Sims no longer allowed to woohoo before marriage after Saudis acquire Electronic Arts
Sims no longer allowed to woohoo before marriage after Saudis acquire Electronic Arts
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In some truly shocking news for the gaming community, Electronic Arts is set to end its decades long run as a publicly traded company, following news that the publisher has been acquired by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners – the latter led by Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The deal, valued at an unprecedented $55 billion, will see EA transition to private ownership for the first time in thirty six years.
Known primarily for its lucrative sports titles such as EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA), the publisher’s sale adds to Saudi Arabia’s growing portfolio in global sports and entertainment, in a move critics say is aimed at deflecting attention from the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses. [...]
Ooh, this is fun when paired with EA's anti cheating software being embedded in the kernel. Surely a foreign power like Saudi Arabia gaining kernel level access to kids computers will be taken as a serious national security concern, just like TikTok was. Right?
Edit: Shit, I ate the onion...
Edit 2: ... or did I?
You could walk into any police station with video footage of someone opening up your pc and soldering malicious components to it, include a sourced, detailed breakdown of what they do, and include robust logs of someone hacking into your network after removing the components, along with eli5 breakdown of what went on and they'd still ask if you were on drugs.
You are on your fucking own with anything with a microchip in it.
Oh, no, that part is true. Most of the article is true, other than the Sim bit.
This is the worst timeline...