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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/theonion@sh.itjust.works/t/2790390

Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Jared Kushner were shocked when they found out their $55 Billion buyout of EA did not include the new, downloadable content. “We should have seen this coming,” stated Kushner. “It’s a classic EA move, the base purchase is never enough without the bug fixes, patches, and eventual DLC. Now EA has the upper-hand.” [...]

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[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would add [satirical fake news] to the title, just to be sure

[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Fair enough👍

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea this is satire, it should be moderated out of pcgaming.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

That's a DLC feature.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even their buyouts have DLCs? Come the fuck on.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a satire news site, similar to the Onion

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Do you think that's why he made that joke?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Next you’ll hear they need to subscribe to the battle pass for new games they wish to own the IP for.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

It's the Canadian Onion - though I feel it has surpassed the Onion at this point.