EA will be a different company under private ownership (arstechnica.com)

Private equity is the place where companies die. They will suck out all of its value and move onto the next company.

It will now be used as a vehicle for an overly complex pyramid scheme.

Well at least this will eventually clear EA out from the market.

Discussion from today:

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (ea.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413083 - 234 comments

can someone please buy ubisoft?