Unfortunately EA could release the next FIFA game with the only update being a massive “Fuck you We knew you’d buy this shit” text displayed on the Title Screen and it’ll still gross $500+ million
EA has 18 billion in debt, this on top of the 55 billion paid for EA, so unless someone like Microsoft or Sony are willing to drop at the very least a high 8 figure it’s not getting made, the only hope is the show does good enough that they outsource remastering the games and releasing them and if they do good we might get a new game
The show's in development (not in production), and hasn't been given a series order yet as far as I can tell. The odds of that actually going anywhere now feels slim, and it's hardly rare for TV shows to die in development.
The best odds, really, are that EA's new owners are mainly concerned about asset stripping EA, the way a different group did to Toys R Us a few years back. It's called a leveraged buyout: buy a company by taking out massive loans, saddle it with the debt you took on to buy it, sell off everything it owned to pay off the debts, declare bankruptcy, and walk away with the profits. Someone might buy Mass Effect in amongst the fire sale as EA's corpse is plundered for parts.
Vulture capitalists usually DO sell IPs they get hold of off, actually. Or licence them out, often quite cheaply.
I'm not sure why you think they don't. That EA didn't sell off or licence out its IPs was fucking weird and actually kind of against the capitalist ethos.
EDIT - Shit you say exactly what I did in a later post lol...
Hopefully, but when have they ever done that? EA is basically the corporate graveyard, has been for decades. C&C TW4 was a mess, Veilguard was a mess, Andromeda had the bones of potential and could’ve been used as the starting point for a new trilogy but it was a buggy mess at launch, the list goes on and on.
I think Mass Effect will get licensed out. The merchandise still probably does good business. Dragon Age could get sold off entirely though if someone wants it.
EA's strategy since the '90s is to buy up as much IP as possible. You have a better chance of Smaug giving you his horde than of EA parting with a single IP.
It'd be nice. They've been sitting on American McGee's Alice for ages and won't do fuck-all with it even though it has a decent cult following. Let EA just have all its sports bullshit and sell the IPs off to other companies that might actually make use of them.
In theory, and only in theory, the more 'involved' sovereign pension funds (CDPQ is one of the more 'heavily involved' funds) could acquire a stake in the IP, with the view towards diversifying into the tech-side and keeping operations within Quebec's videogame development sector.
Same! Sell Mass Effect and Dragon Age to either CDPR or Larian. They'd do a better job with the IP than WA/BioWare ever did.
Hell, Bethesda would do a better job with either IP at this point.
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u/DarnOldMan 7h ago
I hope EA sells off their IPs