Haha, that's like saying "ettac, that house is for sale so you should buy it!"

EA and GOG are antipodes. EA stands for big business. GOG's reputation is more that of an indie underdog.

You can buy us, but our IP's come as completely optional, purchaseable DLC!

Well, in democratic countries, if there is enough political will, the government can, at any time show those mega-corporations who is really the boss.

Smaller countries have less pull, but I think a large country like the US or multi-country coalitions like the EU are in an especially advantageous position to pull something like this off.

So while I see some abuse going on due to lack of political will, as long as said democracies don't collapse, we will be safeguarded against a truly dystopian scenario coming from that direction.

I dunno if they can buy EA, but maybe they can buy Command and Conquer.

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EA have nothing to pay except their EA Origin. Few titles already sold. Few is 3rd party IP. Sims left? NFS (if it not sold)? Bioware with partially sold IPs and only partially belongs to EA? I dont think that CDPG can find something there for old games, since they already here...

Although part of me want that two not so big company (CDPG and Jordan Freeman) buy what left from larger publisher... as exception to Activision Vivendi Microsft buy each others in circles.
By the way, CDPG not so small company (dont know about JFG). But buying another company - is long story anyway with many ppl money invested in process.
If speak exactly about 'one whole company buy another whole company and make own subsidiary or merge'.

It seems like the top brass at EA want someone to buy EA who will adopt enough of a hands-off approach that said top brass get to keep doing what they have been doing but with more money to do it with.

Well, I have bad news for you. EEUU is ruled by corporations. It should be clear for everybody, since corporations openly fund the political careers of politicians as well as presidential runs and all that. And the EU is a puppet of EEUU. So, yeah, welcome to capitalism. Canada is no different, by the way.

We are already in the dystopian scenario, although the scenario lacks cybernetics and all that, making it less interesting.

Yes, to a large extent, corporations put politicians on the map with funding which is not ideal.

However, it is still the people who vote them in and there is an open flow of information (as much as corporate moguls try to buy all the media, they can't).

So yeah, our democracies are far from perfect (ie, things could definitely get more democratic) and a lot of crap that wouldn't go through if it went through a popular consensus does, but if the electorate get outraged enough about an issue, the political elite will bend, regardless of the opinions of their corporate sponsors (ie, money doesn't directly buy votes).

Otherwise, yes it could be a lot better here (in Canada), with a better voting system than our current first past the post for starters, but at least we have 5 political parties with seats (which is a lot better than being down to a 2 parties gridlock) so I wouldn't call things hopeless.

For example, about a decade ago, the NDP which is usually the third or fourth party made big headways in the electoral map due to general disatisfaction with the usually dominant Liberal and Conservative parties and became the opposition party (ie, second party with the most votes). More recently, the elected Liberal party had to make some concessions with the NDP on policies to get a majority backing (they are now a minority government) which I think is very encouraging to see.

Electorally, things are not supposed to be status quo and should shift with the mood of the people which they do to an extent here (not enough in my opinion, but I wouldn't call it nothing).

You are too optimist, I think. All the media is owned by corporations and rich people. And the only chance to have free speech and independent media, which came with the internet, is also been destroyed. Things like "social" media is own and manipulated by them too. Influencers? Guess what? Yeah. There is no such thing as independent media. And the differences you find between news agencies, are so that they make people fall under the illusion they get info from different sources, or they can choose a side. But at the end of the day, they all are Jack Johnsons or John Jacksons.

That way, people are under their control. People outraged? In any case, that outrage is triggered and steered by them in the direction it serves their purposes best.

Yeah, having several political parties is better. No doubt. And yes, systems like the EEUU or French ones are awful and antidemocratic, really. But I can assure you that having several political parties doesn´t ensure absolutely anything. Spain is a good example of that. Awful when 2 big political parties ruled everything, and awful when more political parties were created. The new political parties were created due to the discontent with the country´s situation after the start of the 2008s economic crisis, and the supposedly leftist party that was created, has ended up becoming woke shit and the go-to party when the selfcalled-socialist old party (right wing and fascist [yeah, Spain]), needed more seats to rule with majority. The other new parties are more right-wing trash.

I would advise you to look more closely to your country´s political parties´ politics and actions. Don´t trust what they claim to be, do or achieve.

Definitely something is happening. Microsoft bought Bethesda, even Blizzard. Sony Bungie etc. Ubisoft's CEOs wanna sell too.

Capitol investments are a thing. @CDPR, find some capitol investors and build the GOG portfolio and brand while at the same time striking a win for gamers.

Ive said it million time CDPR is moving way too fast, they already tried to push into online. I think theres new winds, I read even some stuff Sony is gonna add ADs for free to play games etc. Its better to watch how this plays out, imho.

You can say it all you wish, doesn't make it true. GOG's enemies are consolidating. CDPR needs to be bold and strike when the time is correct and the time is correct to acquire EA.