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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"
www.gamesradar.com/games/ea-staff-fear-new-saudi-arabia-owners-will-police-their-games-projects-just-wont-get-signed-because-they-dont-align-explicitly-with-what-the-saudi-government-wants/
It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.
But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.
Assholes like this have zero, ZERO, concept of why creative work is popular. Even “corporate created” work. On an extreme end, as far as they are concerned they could turn The SIMS into “Saudi Life Simulator” and people will still buy it because “Its The SIMS.”
They don’t see the creativity or the why, they just see “popular brand”.
There are plenty of other examples of this out there.