r/masseffect • • 9h ago

NEWS It’s over

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Well, that’s that then

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u/N0-1_H3r3 8h ago

Modern vulture venture capitalism, doing something other than hoarding things so they can rent them out? Seems like wishful thinking.

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u/SHansen45 8h ago

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

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u/N0-1_H3r3 8h ago

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.

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u/SHansen45 8h ago

got me thinking, they do what you said but walk away with FC which pulls a billion per quarter apparently