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Electronic Arts is dead.

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:03:18

Acquired by a PE consortium that includes Kushner and Saudi Arabia. They're going to tear the place down to the studs and use AI to try to leverage existing IP to be as profitable as possible. Even the most rabid EA hater around right now will be shocked at the shithole company it's about to become.

Also, the best thing that could happen for AAA gaming right now is an '80s-style crash. The problems are too pervasive to be solved by anything other than a nuke.

https://www.investopedia.com/electronic-arts-is-going-private-in-a-usd55-billion-deal-11820288

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It doesn't include Saudi Arabia and Kushner...

Posted by longsnapper <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=longsnapper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 11:15:26, in reply to "Electronic Arts is dead."

It *is* Saudi Arabia and Kushner. The 2.5 billion that the Saudis gave Kushner in 2019 is paying off, as they'll now control yet another channel due propaganda.

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Lots of puns, no real answers

Fortunately the whole economy is about to get such a crash. Should be a good time. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:17:56, in reply to "Electronic Arts is dead."

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One of my high school friends works in finance

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:51:37, in reply to "Fortunately the whole economy is about to get such a crash. Should be a good time. *"

for a big hospital network in St. Louis. We were hanging out yesterday and he was telling me that he's projecting a $150 million shortfall in revenue for next year's budget, and he's trying to justify that to his executive leadership team.

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Based on...?

Posted by uofi1998 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=uofi1998' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:53:25, in reply to "One of my high school friends works in finance"

Payment shortfalls (whether via patient or insurance)?
Overhead?
Construction costs?
Interest rates?
All of the above?

Honest question...

You hear me talking, hillbilly boy?

a few factors, mostly the first two

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 11:09:19, in reply to "Based on...?"

Payment shortfalls, insurance companies increasingly denying claims at an alarmingly increasing rate

Shortfalls in Medicare/Medicaid and not being able to turn away patients.

Inflation costs has dramatically increased cost of doing business, including increased wages.

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Payment shortfalls (whether via patient or insurance)?
Overhead?
Construction costs?
Interest rates?
All of the above?

Honest question...

and the two main hospital networks in STL are both doing large construction jobs right now

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 11:17:14, in reply to "a few factors, mostly the first two"

edit- the Barnes one might be newly completed. haven't been that way in a couple of months.

"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

He told me that the hospital networks are poaching employees from each other

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 11:19:04, in reply to "and the two main hospital networks in STL are both doing large construction jobs right now"

and then they will have to rehire people back for even more money than they could have just paid them originally.

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Payment shortfalls (whether via patient or insurance)?
Overhead?
Construction costs?
Interest rates?
All of the above?

Honest question...

Millions of people being cut off of medicaid*

Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ISeeDeadHawkeyes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 11:00:04, in reply to "Based on...?"

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Payment shortfalls (whether via patient or insurance)?
Overhead?
Construction costs?
Interest rates?
All of the above?

Honest question...

It's not in the game*

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What are the problems?*

Posted by biclops <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=biclops' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:16:16, in reply to "Electronic Arts is dead."

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The way you are, it's not your fault, you knew that
The way we were, so young and caught up in it

pervasive focus on short-term profit over quality

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:32:57, in reply to "What are the problems?*"

inability to manage rising production costs and team sizes

over-reliance on post-release support over shipping a functional product

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I know the Sims franchise has pretty well stagnated

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:36:50, in reply to "pervasive focus on short-term profit over quality"

Seems like AI could really boost that experience

You'd think a virtual world to escape from reality

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:52:09, in reply to "I know the Sims franchise has pretty well stagnated"

would be incredibly appealing right now.

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Seems like AI could really boost that experience

it hasn't been particularly good for a while, has it?

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2025, 10:08:09, in reply to "Electronic Arts is dead."

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

no, but this is really gonna kick it up a notch*

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