REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) (“EA” or the “Company”), a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor consortium (“the Consortium”) comprised of PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in an all-cash transaction that values EA at an enterprise value of approximately $55 billion. The transaction positions EA to accelerate innovation and growth to build the future of entertainment.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Consortium will acquire 100% of EA, with PIF rolling over its existing 9.9% stake in the Company. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share in cash. The per share purchase price represents a 25% premium to EA’s unaffected share price of $168.32 at market close on September 25, 2025, the last fully unaffected trading day, and a premium to EA’s unaffected all-time high of $179.01 at market close on August 14, 2025.
I was really excited about BF6 but fuck this is concerning. Be very interesting to see if there's any backlash but I doubt it very much. EA finally had some good will going their way and then they literally sold out to evil.
So I'm in a bit of a quandary here. BF6 is out next week and I really want to play it. The company has been sold to some morally bankrupt people and I don't want to support them. I also need to keep up my Xbox subscription in order to play online and I don't want to give those cunts money either.
So my options are just not play it. Forget morals and give EA and MS money. Cancel my Xbox subscription (which I've had since 2010!) and move to PS Plus and play it there instead.
I more inclined to go for option 3 as its cheaper, and the EA/Saudi deal won't be finalised until 2027.
I think that's a question I find myself asking multiple times a month. Honestly being a consumer in 2025 feels like crossing a minefield of horrible, greedy companies. For what it's worth I wouldn't judge you for enjoying something you're looking forward to just because the people holding the purse strings are criminals.
So I'm in a bit of a quandary here. BF6 is out next week and I really want to play it. The company has been sold to some morally bankrupt people and I don't want to support them. I also need to keep up my Xbox subscription in order to play online and I don't want to give those cunts money either.
So my options are just not play it. Forget morals and give EA and MS money. Cancel my Xbox subscription (which I've had since 2010!) and move to PS Plus and play it there instead.
I more inclined to go for option 3 as its cheaper, and the EA/Saudi deal won't be finalised until 2027.
I just bought a 12-month key for Game Pass from CD Keys, for the equivalent of £10 a month (mainly so my eldest can continue playing multiplayer Minecraft with her friends).
I'm pretty sure MS don't get much from that, so if you want a slightly more guilt-free way of playing the new BF, that could work?
Just buy what you like and enjoy it guilt free. If you want to take a moral stance on large corporations being evil then realistically you'd probably have to bow out of pretty much everything in modern society, including buying most food brands and using most forms of transport.
Makes me laugh when people pick and choose which companies they just can't support anymore when ones like Coca Cola actively lobby against recycling and climate initiatives, cause water shortages and pollute the ecology and even colluded with paramilitaries in Colombia to murder union activists. Or how about Apple, whose supply chain for the iPhone involves the large scale slave labour of Uyghur Muslims in China? Nestlé are at the slavery gig too, they benefit hugely from child slavery on their cocoa farms. That isn't even touching on the oil companies. The entire western world is built on exploitation.
You'd drive yourself mad if you thought about all this and let it get to you too much. Buy the game as cheaply as possible and just enjoy it.
81% Positive (Very Positive) rating on Steam. If they can throw in some larger maps post release which seems to be the biggest ask (Operation Firestorm is an instant favourite once more of course for BF6 so just give more of that in terms of scalability and a more open sandbox structure ie Gulf of Oman or the like) and we'd be absolutely golden.
The fact its release hasn't been plagued by server or performance issues is a miracle and just a few days ago a GPU video of the game running superbly on just an XFX RX 570 4GB in a video quite simply titled "Playing Battlefield 6 on a graphics card that cost less than the game" became instant proof that no additional graphical bollocks has totally served to help compliment the games release. Everyone can get a piece of this pie...
It's surprising to hear so much high praise for an EA release of all things in 2025, having Vince Zampella involved has clearly helped break the broke af release mould - along with the rest of the talented team effort of course. Back to basics, back to fun yet generic looking soldier shooter, back to classes, back to whatever the fuck before Battlefield 2042 was intended to be all along but never manifested...yes it could be fun, but it was never really a Battlefield game either in essence or execution. That's all it took for the most part someone to say ok stop, roll it back.
And about bloody time.
Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.
