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Studio given free reign over team building and dev time ends up wasting so much time and money that they get the entire project cut.
Whose going to buy EA? They have tons of IP, but no ability to use it.
Normies are retards and cling onto brands despite how in the gutter they might be. Tencent could easily swoop in and buy EA or any other number of crumbling brands and still normies would buy whatever slop was thrown at their faces.
At least we would get a new game. EA has killed more IPs that I loved than Activision.
Tencent could probably pull it off but they'd never go for it at the moment since the valuation includes all the dead weight employees.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen in 10 years as EA continues to do the same things and continues failing, though.
Just look at Ubisoft.
The deal with Tencent is exactly what I describe above, too. Sectioned off IPs that they bought without any of the baggage. But Ubisoft had to be in dire straits to even go for it.