EA Is Gonna Get Bought Out (Probably)
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Well, somebody's gonna buy EA. I think. Why else would I make a video on it.
Maybe Disney will give the next Battlefield some Tailspin DLC.
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All Video long i thought to myself: doesn't matter who's gonna buy EA, hopefully we'll get Spore 2. Thanks Tyler, for crushing my dreams with your last sentence
Spore is the only EA franchise I’ve ever cared about, why did he do this to us 💀
I will die happy if we get a spore 2
@Propelli sadly😔
@@CollieDaze spore and earlier sims is all I really care about lol
Came here to say the exact same thing! Dream crusher on the very last second! Aff
“Would apple just buy EA for peggle 3 exclusivity? Is that worth $40 billion dollars?”
How is that even a question? Of course it is.
They are currently funding an adaption of Isaac Asimov's Foundation botched by David asS. Goyer, a sitcom based on an ad for a sport channel, Ronald D. Moore's space race fan-fic and what ever See and The Morning Show are
To Apple? If they make a gaming centric Apple TV box? Yes it definitely could be
apple does not need EA, guess it's over now.
They did release Star Wars, Battlefront, but Reddit killed it, not getting Yoda crap for free?
Just make games, stop doing deals with untrusted parties as Disney and FIFA!
This is like that part in a movie where the monster gets eaten by a bigger monster
Yeah
Yeah
There's always a bigger fish
than another bigger monster happens to see what unfolded and says damn thats f’d up
So what I'm understanding from this is that, considering EA's past performance, we're screwed if they don't sell, but we're also screwed if they do.
What a time to be alive.
"Screwed one way or the other" really meshes with the current theme we have going on.
It's more like, "we're still screwed, so who cares?"
Why we? I don't play their games and I don't plan to play their games.
I'm totally fine, EA could go under as far as I care.
@@meggaman7 😓 you're so right
@@evertonc1448 but c&c man...
it's truly horrofying how even traditionally considered to be big publishers are all bought out one by one. in a few years there could be just 3 or 4 companies left making games and almost all of them will belong to companies also producing the hardware they are played on.
I guess that's what happens when you make the worst games for years and years and end up needing to sell out just to make ends meet.
@LemonFish56 Indies are the same way, KSP got bought and the OG devs forced out, Minecraft got bought and thrived... A suprising amount of indies(From game devtube anyway) want to sell their games to Publishers as this big dream... Fortunatly there is always more who don't and their are poeple who are never sellers who won't.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough I mean, can't blame them that they want to sell out to the publisher just for that guaranteed stable amount of cash that they could use to meet-end-meet. Not like making game is a money-making profession to 90% of the independent gamedev.
Seems like what happens in virtually every industry unfortunately. Consolidation and oligopoly.
I imagine we're heading for a future where we have a very small number of massive developers, a bunch of small indies, and not much in between.
"Whoever buys em, they're probably not gonna make Spore 2." And that my friends, is the only tragedy here.
I never got to play Spore 1 because of crappy DRM. I got the collectors edition too.
Radioactive Walrus
That was a personal title by Will Write, Maxis before they closed.
Should we do this ourselves, ask him, to do another release, help him! Rebuild Maxis!
if disney gets them we might get the spore movie after almost 14 years
they own 20th century fox and bluesky (both were announced to have been working on the film)
if they get EA, that's pretty much the final thing they'd need for a fresh animated film idea. (and a possible franchise)
@@AltairBlue they planned a spores movie? What would it even be about lol, its a sandbox game
1. Tyler is making coherent sentences
2. EA is so fucked
If Disney buys EA, it’ll at least make them both even more easier to boycott.
LMAO! You beat me to it
or amazon for that matter
God I hope all these companies rot in hell forever. And never come back. Who the fuck still gives them money?
Bioware carried EA for awhile. until eventually, the shareholder deadline for projects polluted the production. Micky will probably buy it, and I'll continue to not purchase their stuff. Cheers for the vidya tylerp.
The lesson is, buy stocks kiddo, you never know when Blackrock & friends will screw over your favorites.
I think people misunderstand how EA as a company works. They aren't looking to be bought out right. They are looking for a partnership or a merger. EA shareholders want to get more value out of it and simple just being eaten isn't going to help them. Right now EA isn't going bankrupt. They'll be fine for a while.
Bioware spent 5 years doing nothing then rushout production of anthem...then its rumoured EA was going to shut them down for being incompetent so Bioware went behind EA's back to get a new dragon age game trailer to be shown in the game awards to save themselves
@@kingofgames2992 bioware fucking up is a classic the sims alone could carry that publisher for decades those games make fucktons of money
EA are missing an opportunity to sell their employees as part of EA Ultimate Company card packs!
Out of the three, Amazon is most likely in my eyes. They have the ties and desire to get into the industry. Apple would only want the mobile side practically but could buy that seperatly? Disney has been in and out of the gaming industry so many times it would be foolish to try for the nth time instead of focusing on their core business of passive media and physical experiences. Maybe they could buy the sports IP and studios.
Honestly, splitting EA into those components and then giving it to each three would be most logical. Who knows because the market is never logical or sane...
Facts.
yeah amazon seems like the one company that could buy EA and that we know wants to break into the gaming market
Idk if apple would buy ea solely for their mobile titles, they already have a pretty decent catalogue of exclusives, as far as mobile gaming is concerned that is.
I really wouldn’t be surprised if they slapped an M1 in the Apple TV and said “hey guys look you can play apex on this thing”
Apple already has plenty of mobile exclusives. If they were gonna buy a game publisher, it’d be for AR/VR.
why would Amazon need PC titles?
I don't like how none of these options are going to make EA less of an ass.
EA is beyond help
Well. This is a fascinating look into our increasingly dystopian present.
I do agree that Disney is the most likely candidate for a buyout, if for no other reason than that they had Ursula enchant the SEC so that the SEC would never block a Disney buyout, but yeah, apart from Amazon, this is Alien-vs-Predator-"No-matter-who-wins-we-lose"-type situation (sidebar: _how fucked up is it_ that AMAZON buying out EA is the _good_ option?)
That being said I don't know if Disney would let EA's properties wither on the vine the way that EA themselves have. Disney is in the intellectual property business, and while EA's properties don't always lend themselves to a non-interactive medium Disney likely sees the value in some of EA's legacy properties among certain groups of enthusiasts, and their Disney Dollars spend just as well as anybody else's. If they could be convinced that these could be profitable as nostalgic cash-ins there's a nonzero chance we could see some classic franchises revived. Who knows, maybe a Command and Conquer Disney+ show that somehow ties into Loki was the real Endgame.
Personally I think Elon will _say_ he's going to buy it, sell the EA stock we didn't know he had, then find a way to back out of the deal and declare he now supports the American Freedom Party.
Elon is very late to publicly jump on the muh freedumbs trump wagon. That train has left the station months ago with the capital traitor riot. I am however sure he doesn't give a fuck whose in government and is 100% doing it to sell more cyber trucks or fuck around with wallstreet because he's bored.
im worried disney might leave mass effect to wither because they might see it as a potential competitor for star wars games (especially cus amazon's developing a mass effect show)
@@zack-ne1li Valid point. That said, if Amazon has a vested interest in Mass Effect, maybe they'll offer to buy it.
Loki was Lenin
ALL ALONG!!
I recently watched a video by a guy who worked at EA, Mark Darrah, and from what he says is that EA is a company that doesn't want to be acquired but rather merged or to have a partnership. Disney will most likely just acquire them which the shareholders wouldn't want. Also the track record for Disney on games is mostly them just failing to make their own games in house and having more success licensing out their media projects. Kingdom Hearts is extremely successful yet they aren't going to acquire square. EA will eventually get bought but it isn't going to be in the way people think.
I can see apple buying out EA’s mobile divisions and then selling to amazon or disney, but I don’t see apple buying them outright unless they started putting serious thoughts into the traditional games industry.
Comcast and EA would’ve been such a perfect fit
"EA is the perfect example of what's wrong with monopolies. They've had a monopoly on Madden and Fifa for so long now, and the games are stagnant and boring because of it.
" - Will Smith
What innovation could be done to FIFA? They included a campaign for some reason and they're improving graphics but what more?
Street mode maybe.
They could publish a new edition every 4 years say then do a new dlc update at the start of the new football season or major tournaments. Keeps the game fresh and updated but not ripping people off for an asset flip "new" game every year
@@lethalButters a FIFA game that updates every year would be great. The only problem would be that changes made last year would be lost forever. That's the only advantage for yearly releases that I can think of.
@@LetrixAR FIFA has the potential to be the game of soccer: for casuals and that hardcore football manager fandom, depending on the game mode, but they do nothing to let competition behind because ultimate team probably
Which Will Smith? . . . There's a lot of people called Will Smith. Will the real Will Smith Willing Smith something?
EA also owns Codemasters. So, with that goes F1, Project Cars, Dirt, Grid, etc.
They don't have to sell out in one go; they could easily sell out piecemeal. Really the overlap of people who like Madden, FIFA (or whatever), Spore, The Sims, Peggle, and Mass Effect is probably pretty minute. So sell Maxis, EA Sports, mobile games, etc off to different studios. That'd probably be the better solution than just having Disney or whoever try to manage all that mess in one place. Maybe solicit bids or have an open day where various interested parties turn up to scheme over what bits of EA's corpse they'd prefer to have and what to do with the remainder. I mean I'd probably just want Maxis and maybe some of the sci-fi shooters; the endlessly rehashed sports games can go, even though they're probably the most profitable branch, but my loss is someone's gain and maybe I'd get a discount on Maxis because of it.
Sell EA sports to 2k or partner
Throw in the resurrected corpse of Origin and I'm in on this terrible plan.
@@Condorito380 what does origin do ?
@@43turkkkless EAs shitty attempt at a steam clone that works about as well as Uplay if not worse/
Guess we can look forward to more family friendly Battlefield games.
What a time to be alive...
I just want new life breathed into Command and Conquer and Battlefield
i no longer care that much about who acquires who anymore. i've long given up hope on ever seeing games like i used to love to play. ea is a pretty good example; they still have a website where they advertise with black and white games, which hasn't bene available for legal purchase for over a decade. you'd think they made it available SOMEHOW in all that time.
Right… why shouldnt we be able to pirate old stuff if we cant get it otherwise?
there's possibility that EA under Disney can patent new algorithms that make even writing fanfics illegal as shit
"nintendo dosen't know who EA is"
after the wii u, EA and Nintendo haven't answered each other's calls
I'll bet my money on Nintendo. They were actively searching for the shittiest decision they could possibly make in the last two years, so this seems like the next logical step.
If Nintendo buys EA I’ll eat my shorts
@@Mr.kitsune42 Look on the bright side, we will have a Need For Speed VS Mario Kart
Sounds like Nintendo they love to screw over customers. Nintendo gets a free pass because people have nostalgia goggles on EA seems right up their alley but Nintendo doesn't buy publishers it's not their business model
@@isaacvazquez627 mario cart underground
Nintendo is way too small to afford such a massive expense.
Honestly the only part of EA worth saving is Bioware. I truly feel like Bioware is capable of producing amazing blockbuster games as long as they don't have to deal with EA's forced monetization and multiplayer/SAAS
Bioware spent 5 years doing nothing then rushout production of anthem...then its rumoured EA was going to shut them down for being incompetent so Bioware went behind EA's back to get a new dragon age game trailer to be shown in the game awards to save themselves
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A modern Apple console: $1200 to play mobile games on your TV, and updates will slow it down to the point of uselessness within three years.
I don’t think Microsoft’s gonna have trouble with the SEC hearing if they convince them that Embracer Group is more of a monopoly than what a Microsoft/Activision merger would result in. Embracer has 120+ studios under them, Xbox would have significantly less than that.
Embracer group doesn't limit their games to anyone piece of hardware so that would be a tough sell.
I don't know how any anti-trust authority can prosses Embracer's "point darts on the wall" strategy for buyouts, they own Dark Horse as well they have reunited Duke Nukem and 3D Realms.
Also it's hard to be an manoploly when their are hundreds of compators and it gets easier to make games each day.
@@TyphonJRT Embracer's case would fall under a more "classical" monopoly definition, á la Standard Oil and AT&T. They sold their products to everybody, sure, but they were practically the only ones to do so. It would be just as difficult to argue before a judge as Microsoft's purchase of Activision, however.
@@Geofiendlux In that case there needs to be evidence they are abusing their position.
Funny enough a person who worked for EA, Mark Darrah, made a video saying that EA has always been open to be acquired but wanted to it be a partnership and not to be acquired. As for Disney they aren't really in the market for games cause they have never really been profitable for them.
You should definitely check out the guy he has a lot of other things to say about it.
RED ALERT IS IN THERE SOMEONE BUY IT AND MAKE A GODAMN RTS ALREADY
Ass burger more like pass burger
I'm just hoping that whoever buys EA will hopefully make Spore 2/Spore Remastered
Also PVZ will hopefully be in better hands
I think being bought out by apple, being forced to sell all of their intellectual property and let go of their acquired studios and then exclusivity making peggle for ios is the ideal outcome imo.
No matter what happens, we'll probably live to see Madden 100.
@@drachenzahne9262 I love that channel too.
Could you imagine an ultima disney plus show? Could you imagine a COMMAND AND CONQUER DISNEY PLUS SHOW?
A Red Alert show would be hilarious..
the correction might sound annoying, but: warner wasen't split from time warner, rather, time warner (who's named warnermedia by the way) was split from it's then parent company ATT, and got sold to discovery and discovery merged with them
EA has been a faceless corporate monolith for so long I can't muster the emotion to care about whatever happens to it
Basically
that is literally any company
i remember when EA was a company that made bad games in weird cartridges for Mega drive. god... james pond was a bad game
and then they made Fifa and Desert strike that actually were very good
oh actualy, i forgot about Road Rash... man Road Rash was good
This was one of your funniest videos in a while. So many many many quick jokes. Loved it haha
Nintendo's worth is 59.8 billions while EA is 36.7 billions, so it's, let's say, unlikely for them to show some interest to buy them, regardless if they know who they are or not.
Apple has been pushing their metal API more and more
Yes, modern mac performance is good, however keep in mind those chips are on the iPad now.
Apple already made a deal to bring the full NBA 2k game to the iPad with m1, I think that is what apple is aiming for, establish the iPad as a portable effectively or create a portable console with the same guts and interoperability as the iPad and m1 Mac's.
Effectively try and make arm the dominant architecture as well.
Apple has the performance to take the gaming market now, now it just needs to attract gamers to its devices.
Command and Conquer must escape this hell.
I always pictured EA would merge with Take-Two and Amazon buying Ubisoft.
honestly, a battlefield map at Disney world would be kinda cool lmao
it would be fitting for disney to buy EA, if that happened. they both produce mediocre stuff that is digestible and sells well (mostly).
Pro tip to EA. Meak a good game for once and dont put to many dlc and microtransactions in them
If apple were to enter the market it would probably be with clod gaming
They seem to be investing a lot into cloud storage and the macs and phones are pretty good at running cloud based games
Can't wait for Disney's ea Madden 2027, Disney Pixar's plants vs zombies movie and Disney's ea fifa 2034
The fear of loosing titanfall and battlefield to a merger beings fear to my heart
Respawn already jumped the ship of Activision they won't stay and let it burn
It makes some sense for Apple to buy EA considering they do have some interest in gaming. They recently revealed the Metal 3 api with a focus on game related changes, such as DLSS, more direct memory access to the GPU, better Raytracing support, and actual compatibility with C++. It could make sense for them to buy a gaming company to create AAA/mobile games exclusively for them
They want tô keep Android Wilson as CEO thats Why everyone bounce back
Meta acquiring EA isn't "terrifying", it's a match made in heaven. Or hell, I guess.
"Disney Sports"
"Disney FC"
Oh my god, it's like Morgoth bringing Sauron over to his side
God I fucking love conglomerates
honestly i’m not so sure about Disney considering that they closed Disney interactive in 2016. they seem to be content with only making mobile games in house and licensing their properties to 3rd parties i don’t really see why that would have changed
If they do get bought out by Disney, I better see Mickey mouse in the next FIFA game
I doubt Disney would buy EA, given their focus on licensing their IPs. EA might end up merging with Ubisoft, but that's just my two cents.
oh god I hope Ubisoft isn't the dominant side of the merger
@D.R nah EA has made like 5 good games in the past 5 years, Ubisoft hasn't made a good game since siege came out, everything they touch turns to shit
Hey, just wondering what you meant by unreal being banned on the mac os? I have been looking at learning to do game audio in unreal on my Mac and I haven't heard anything about unreal 5 not being on Mac.
I could see Disney looking into some of EA's franchises for potential new projects, but the only idea that comes to mind would be a Mass Effect TV show for Disney+ or Hulu (preferably Hulu since then it wouldn't have to be family-friendly), and after seeing the Halo TV show, I don't really want another TV adaptation of a popular space game anytime soon. I dunno, maybe a Need for Speed movie to compete with Fast and the Furious? Digging the bottom of the barrel here, especially since a Need for Speed movie exists and sucks ass. Honestly, I wouldn't be against Disney acquiring EA, but given Lucasfilm Games's current strategy of licensing Star Wars and other Lucasfilm properties to not only EA but also other developers (Ubisoft and Quantic Dream are both working on Star Wars games, and Bethesda's got an Indiana Jones game in the works), I dunno if Disney would want to buy EA just for making licensed games. The whole reason they license their franchises to other developers now is because they used to make their own games and had a difficult time doing it.
1:38
Remember Spore?
**cries in avid spore player**
Great vid, just gotta correct one thing for ya: Warner Bros was not split from Time Warner.
AT&T acquired Time Warner and rebranded it as WarnerMedia, then spun it off to merge with Discovery. Discovery single-handedly decided they’d rebrand as Warner Bros Discovery because they have full control of the new company. It was effectively an acquisition by Discovery rather than a merger. All of legacy Time Warner is still present in this new company. The confusion in the naming is similar to AT&T deciding to name the WarnerMedia streaming service HBO Max even though the service also includes Warner Bros and Turner content.
All this said, Comcast spinning off NBC Universal to merge with EA would be similar to AT&T spinning off WarnerMedia to merge with Discovery. If EA had full control of the new company, then it would be exactly like Warner Bros Discovery.
Just to clarify 👍
I love that he out a picture of John Cena when he said Tencent 10/10 comedy
Can you imagine apple trying to compete with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and PC (Valve etc.)
they definitely have the capital too
It wouldn't be the first time.. Or second time..
2:48 this screenshot is funny to me since thats kotor 2, which was made by Obsidian, who are now owned by microsoft
When David Bowie sang about how Mickey Mouse had grown up a cow, I don't think even he could have imagined things getting this far out of hand.
I just want you to know that I love your music
EA just frustrates me to a point where I can’t formulate an actual thought about why the piss me off
Back to back Whimsu? Be still my heart
Yes, I remember Ultima
Oh the irony! EA and Comcast. 😂
What's with Disney owning everything just lately?
Whatever happens to EA, I hope my beloved Alice will be alright.
"E-A-Disney To The Game"
Has enough to do a buy out of either Take -two or EA, as well as Capcom and Konami. Then they can wait to see what the Discovery + Warner Bros merger puts their value at and buy them out within a year. It would kind of go in line with their plans to expand their profits past the video game industry.
Can't wait for Disney's Command and Conquer
"Finally, we have the wild cards" lol philly
Deer Avenger and Deer Avenger 2 Deer in the City were the lewd mature games I played as a kid in my parents Windows 95 computer at night when they were asleep 😍 such fond memories!
Well it looks like Amazon is the one buying EA
Amazon's not as bad as Disney
Whatever happens I just want ea to lose the nfl license so other companies can make football games again
It's almost funny to me seeing how the gaming scene that I remember from the times of the Sega Genesis is dying off. Activision doesn't exist anymore and EA is now selling itself. I remember Bullfrog from a game I love (Popoulous 3) and so many Peter Molinoux games. When MS bought Minecraft I stopped playing (for a while, tho when I do play I stil play earlier versions of the game - 1.7.10 with a lot of mods, to be precise). I have never played a Disney property game (tho my sister has played Kingdom Hearts) in my entire life and I don't see myself playing them. Man, I miss the PS2. Mine was struck by lighting (I was playing MetalGear 2) and I lost it forever.
1.7.10 goat
buy a fat ps2 with modchip, and head over to reddit ps2 piracy for aid. hacking a ps2 and installing PS2 games for free has never been easier, and you have over 4000 ps2 games to try. it is far better than the original times. search it later for yourself.
Activision still exists, they will just be acquired by MS
@@kingofgames2992 But they are no loger what they used to be. Plus, Activision by itself stopped existing when they merged with Blizzard.
@@daniel_rossy_explica didn't vivendi buy a controlling stake in Activision before that so they technically changed before that
I honestly don't know if that would make EA better or _worse…_
_"%$@# you, EA, you killed 'Ultima'! %$@# you-"_ - The Spoony One
God fucking dammit, I want spore 2 right now
6:40 No, Facebook would be great. They'd both go bankrupt.
I don't think there's no other Media Company who is not already directly competing with Disney that is Stout enough to operate in tandem with Disney. EA can sell anything literally anywhere, including where Disney doesn't have any importance whatsoever (gamers). It can also survive pretty much anything they are a lot like a cockroach. This would be a very easy win in terms of corporate restructuring.
It’s about time their greedy choices came back to hit them
New mic? You sound way more distinct from your brother suddenly. Or maybe I've just been watching enough of you two to distinguish ~_~ Either way the sound balance was tight in this. Fun stuff as usual.
Weird. I had a dream a few weeks ago about buying out EA myself and now it's happening for real? Honestly I don't really give a crap. But it'll be good to see them get a taste of their own medicine for all the companies they've bought and screwed over.
yeah, their shareholders getting a massive payday since EA has a market cap of just under $40B ($39.66B to be exact) so EA will probably be acquired for around $50B give or take so shareholders will get at least about a 26% premium on their investments
@@kingofgames2992 I don't know enough about stocks to understand what you just said completely but I got the gist of it.
@@Guardian-of-Light137 basically the shareholders aka the owners of EA will be taking a W
@@Guardian-of-Light137 Basically EA would get bought out around 50 billion or more because that's how it works. The shareholders will make bank they can go off and blow their paychecks
Please Disney buy EA and BIOWARE!
Make a Mass effect series and reboot.
Disney owns the three biggest sports channels in the US by the way!
Lords of Ultima was great, but I sometimes wonder if I was the only one online on there
man, if Apple makes a console, it'd be funny af to have Google exhume Stadia and make it a real console instead of a streaming box.
Whatever the outcome, I hope it results in making SW Battlefront III
What's the end song?
I would guest Embracer Group!
Makes sense Disney would snag them. Disney has done such a god awful job of getting their property into gaming
So why not buy a god awful studio so they don't have to do it themselves.
Maybe new leadership at EA wouldn't hurt, but then again, the new leadership may very well be as bad or worse.
It'll breathe new life into the company for a short time - but soon it'll be right back to shovelware. Amazon would be the best bet for the status quo, Disney best for "quality" games but with less creative freedom, and the rest best for the ultimate deathblow to the company.
I acctualy don't agrre with the disney stand point. nearly everytime when disney bought something (Hulu; 20'th century fox; Lucas film ETC) they never abonded the frienchises infact they bought it because of it and buying EA would of course be a great way for disney to get some of there games out there but they would never get the games from EA just slipp away infact they can totally do stuff with that Like BIG movies for cinema and disney+ and TV shows for FOX and ABC
Makes fun of spore being forgotten...
Meanwhile it's busy being a cult classic with an active comunity.
I love modern day robber barrons!
I'm also waiting for Need For Speed 2022 game since i got back to Need For Speed after the 🎵 Controversy 🎵 of Gran Turismo 7 which has Microtransactions!
The idea of Disney possibly owning Dead Space is terrifying
i'll buy EA for a lootbox that has a chance to contain a bajillion dollars.
would give me a great sense of pride & acomplishment.