Battlefield 6

[Lenny Solidus]

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.

https://ir.ea.com/press-releases/press- ... fault.aspx

And like that, all my interest in Battlefield 6 just flew away.

Regardless of the buyout, the BF6 beta was the only reason I'd had even had the EA app installed in about two years.

[eny]

Yep, not a penny from me, Kushner and his bonesaw trust washers can go fuck themselves.

[Animalmother]

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.

[Animalmother]

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.

[Raid]

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.

[Sly Boots]

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?

[Animalmother]

Cheers, that is a good option. I'd save over €200 a year getting the code from CD Keys!

[Mantis]

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.

[Animalmother]

Fair point mate. You'd drive yourself insane trying to avoid giving money to scumbags and criminals. Just enjoy your hobby and try not to be a Edwin.