Not a huge surprise.
Disney has already purchased pretty much all the TV/movie production it can and the games industry has bigger revenue than either.
So them going Borg on the games industry is the next logical step for them.
I never thought the universe would invent a way to make EA worse, but there we are.
Apple has been making similar comments about getting into the gaming space. I hope not. Disney has a habit of “disneyfying” all of their entertainment and if Apple Arcade is any indication of how they think of the gaming space over at Apple, no thanks.
At first I thought EA was an interesting choice considering the Star Wars is the only franchise I can think of that EA licenses from Disney, when Square Enix for Kingdom Hearts seems like it would be a cheaper buy. Then I realized I was looking at it wrong, and that Disney also wants the characters from the game studios other games. And then I imagined what Disney would do if they owned the Sims.
Based on Disney’s history with gaming companies they owned, they would probably just shutter EA after a couple of years when EA can’t generate a 100x ROI or something. To be honest that would be funny as hell.
Please don’t buy EA, please don’t buy EA, please don’t buy EA.
They seem like they’ve been slowly recovering from John Riccitiello, but I have serious doubts they’ll ever be able to put out a good game again if Disney buys them.
A couple of offers have been floated for Disney’s TV assets— Byron Allen texted Iger a $10 billion bid for ABC and its other TV channels, while Nexstar Media Group Inc. was in exploratory talks for the news network—but neither deal is likely to go through. ESPN agreed to a sports betting deal with downmarket casino operator Penn Entertainment Inc. that will pay Disney as much as $1.5 billion over a decade. For years, Iger insisted Disney couldn’t get into gambling because of reputational concerns; now it seems like one way to plug holes. Iger’s deputies are pushing him to consider a bolder transformation of Disney from gaming licensee to gaming giant through, say, an acquisition of Electronic Arts. But, as with everything else, he’s been noncommittal.
They just text each others $10 billion bids?
Inbetween memes I assume
Would it even be worse? It probably can’t get like noticably worse at this point.
They could shut down the gameservers to a ton of older games, such as BF4 and BF1. That would be a sad day indeed, as many people are still playing them.
