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The buyers are committing $36 billion of their own equity (briefly and inexpertly, "equity" is the value of your assets after you deduct anything you owe), including the value of the PIF's existing investments in EA. They're making up the rest of the total thanks to a $20 billion loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank. How will they manage that massive debt? According to the Financial Times, who cite unnamed insiders, they're gambling on the deployment of generative AI tools as a gigantic cost-saving measure.

"The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA's profits in the coming years, people involved in the transaction told the Financial Times," the paper wrote (paywall) in their own coverage of the story. The FT elsewhere commented that the acquisition "is a huge bet that artificial intelligence can significantly cut EA's operating costs, allowing the equity consortium to manage a large debt load on a company that historically carried limited net debt."

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just sitting here playing the long game, waiting for EA to finally implode and get sold off for parts so we can finally get a new Command & Conquer.

[–] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Vibe coding is one thing, but I am curious about the state of using of AI tools to reduce the cost of generating 3D assets, animations, and textures. I assume they are introducing this into Ignite and their other build tools, for more rapid prototyping if nothing else.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

My first thought was they'll probably use it to generate endless slop assets for The Sims, since people seem to pick up whatever they put out for that.

[–] Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

For 3D model generation, I've played with Hunyuan3D, Tripo and Trellis. The models they make are impressive, but not production-usable. You'll spend enough time cleaning them up that you may as well make them the old fashioned way.

Most of the benefits of generative image models are already baked into Photoshop. While helpful, not something that's going to give them a competitive advantage.

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Well now, I'd already basically given up on EA, glad I made the right choice

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA’s profits in the coming years"

I'll take that bet.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 5 months ago
[–] se7enfeet@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Game quality from this company will be absolute dogshit ai slop

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How many EA games require you connect to their servers just to play? How many have ToS where you need to install any updates before you play? How long before these PE folks figure out they can push updates to even older games that add data mining capacity?

[–] se7enfeet@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

At this point EA is a slur and is not allowed in my home

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

The image being so small makes it funnier.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

hope they least long enough to release the worst game in history.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Not that I bought their games to start, but I can hope this drives others to stop buying their games all just to say fuck you to some of the investors in this.

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