I love that "innovation" with big US companies always means acquiring another company. Not like EA is a big innovator either.
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Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's from Bojack Horseman
"Wait so how many companies are there in the world now?"
"Nine."
Yeah, but don't worry. It's not a monopoly until only one company bought every other.
Ooohhhh, please don't suggest anyone buy Trader Joe's. That would F Up my world.
Trader Joe's is privately owned, but it is owned by Aldi.
More specifically, by the heirs of Theo Albrecht, one of the two brothers that founded the two Aldi companies.
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Trader Joe's is already owned by Aldi.
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But why? Disney has made several attempts before to break into gaming, none of which have worked out well. The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
Also, Disney doesn't have the cash to buy EA, so buying EA would involve them going deeply into debt. With today's interest rates, that would be too risky.
The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
That's why they're going to want to buy those studios.
They can't buy Square Enix or Capcom; Japan has laws protecting certain Japanese companies from being bought out by foreign companies.
@OfficialThunderbolt @Jinxyface it's ashamed more countries & gov't are to fiscally driven to legally prevent monopolies when they've been known to be destructive
Video games aren't in danger of becoming a monopoly, but that kind of measure seems more aimed at preventing foreigners from having too much influence.
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The big publishers' moneymaking franchises have plateaued or declined without anything to replace them, and they're looking to sell their companies before those franchises stop making money. EA and Disney have a partnership via Star Wars that could work out toward making an acquisition or merger more affordable. Disney would probably have a hard time growing by acquiring more television or movie studios, but video games are in a different industry. Disney might see acquiring a giant like EA to be acquiring "experts" at how to actually run a video game business compared to Disney's failed past efforts.
Those are the reasons I can think of. EA was rumored to have hit up every enormous company like this to buy them out, including Apple and Amazon, so it doesn't surprise me that Disney was on that list.
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If they buy EA I'll only have to boycott one company, instead of two.
Bonus if Alphabet also Buys M$, Bytedance and Disney.
Alphabet has half the market cap of Microsoft. Microsoft is so unbelievably big, it's not even funny.
Microsoft would be the one buying all three of Alphabet, Bytedance, and Disney and barely scoff at it.
Mouse couldn't run EA worse than EA is run now. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
Rule 2 of the videogame industry: if you think something can't get worse, it absolutely fucking will within a month or two
See also: Unity
My epiphany was when I was almost successfully gaslit that Halo Infinite was actually a nice game and that I just grew out of the franchise
FPS games are in dire straits if you like the kind of stuff we got 10-20 years ago, but so many other genres are thriving right now. Give it 5 years, and the indie scene will likely up the FPS market that AAA forgot; right now, they're chasing late 90s arena shooters rather than the slightly-slower, somewhat-grounded-in-some-sort-of-reality action blockbusters we got in the early 2000s through the 2010s.
And Halo Infinite's multiplayer was almost what I wanted out of a Halo game. Better than what Halo had between 3 and 5.
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Which shall happen regardless of which megalithic corpo whore is calling the shots.
What’s rule 1?
Rule 1: Do not believe the hype and pre-order games
If you see a wall with a weird texture, just light a bomb next to it.
I, for one, am curious as to what products I could purchase from Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico
Nuclear powered, Heat seeking High fructose syringes, now with flamin hot flavor you can feel in your bones!
Depleted uranium enriched Funions. I mean, even more so than they currently are.
Well they can't make EA any worse, right? Right??
Sure, because it did wonders for Fox and Marvel.
(And casually ruined Marvel vs Capcom Infinite).
Don't they technically already own LucasArts when they bought LucasFilms back in 2012?
Is that not big enough?
Don’t they technically already own LucasArts when they bought LucasFilms back in 2012?
They shut it down within months :\ killed Star Wars 1313 in the process.
I dunno but I do love those last couple of Jedi games.. love that shit, and I don't really like star wars
If they remake Jedi Knight II and III, I'm in.
So I'm not in, basically.
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Souls-like, but not as difficult.
I kinda support this since it means Disney will probably kill it off in a year.
really though you can thank microsoft buying activision for this trend
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Like, If they are planning on getting into the Console Market not really, If they are planning on taking EA improving on it and keeping Insomniac doing the spider-man / marvel based games I'm all in, it would be nice to see some really good Disney based games (I don't play star wars jedi but I can see it's a really good game).
it would be nice to see some really good Disney based games (I don’t play star wars jedi but I can see it’s a really good game).
Nah man. I was open minded with their star wars/marvel shows but they are all the same at this point. The look and feel has become so homogenized. Mando/Andor/Loki are basically the only things with any style of their own at this point and even they still 80% overlap (Andor less so) with Disney's style executed in all their other shows.
I really lost faith after Obi Wan. Man that show looked and felt so cheap. The story was so boring. What a waste.
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hmmm, sounds like the work of a giant gamer
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