Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I have to assume all non-sports IPs are dead
Idk Spooky, a heavy hitter in the game industry thinks this might be the thing that saves the company
games
Monday, September 29, 2025
This guy and the Quartering have been super funny lately, grifters are hilarious
It's going to happen randomly one day
well, it's developer wide as well
so at some point Phijkchu Games will cross the undisclosed threshold
completely derailing
was checking out the Steam Sale
watch this trailer
for like 20-ish seconds, it's an indie soulslike
then click through to the store and look at the screenshots
Wonder why we did not have that posted and talked about here
thanks Dane
very helpful
as cringe as he is, I'll agree with Mark Kern in a small way
I do think Saudi Arabia is trying to win a cultural victory in a way that is not-terrible
The issue is, I don't think they see value in EA (not even talking profit) other than their sports franchises
I think the Saudi push into gaming is more "I like this and I am fabulously wealthy so I want them to keep doing the thing I like"
but yeah
Pretty sure its just EA sports
that they care about for this one
the Gulf is the sports capital of the world rn
and EA sports has millions of players, across like 15 different franchises
the counter example is Embracer, where the Saudi's walked away and doomed dozens of game franchises and developers
they're big on esports, true
and any prince that has a game they personally like, gets bankrolled like SnK
or Marci in Dota
black people
And others
there are people who buy every single FIFA game every year and all the DLC
There is an entire subset of gamers(tm) where the only game they play is fortnite + fifa (or equivalent sportsball game) and maybe 1 or 2 other games occasionally
unirronically Dialga, it's just Western gacha
and for people who already spend a significant chunk of their free time watching games, betting on games, or playing fantasy sports
EA sports games are comfortable