Yeah.. I tried to ignore those comments since I still want to keep my head
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Saudi Arabian games company EGDC (largest shareholder: the Crown Prince) becomes largest shareholder (33%) in SNK
- Thread starter Eroke
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Please don't use a sentence Muslims use to express gratitude for something good to celebrate a goddamn mass murderer enriching themselves.
Especially if you are just trying to just joking around or to be witty, because it is both not amusing nor it is funny.
Gee I dunno..maybe it had something to do with the training partnership the same Saudi company did with SNK last year to train young female saudi developers??
Alot of hyperbole in this thread without knowing the slightest clue about EGDC or "Misk Foundation"
Oh and for those screaming for boycotts already.. this is a list of MbS PIF investment (and its increasing every single day btw)
I hope the LGBT community will be as upset about this as we are about CD Projekt Red. The Saudi Arabian government has one of the worst track records when it comes to LGBT rights in the world.
Oh wow, that's a lot of companies to boycott! 😝Gee I dunno..maybe it had something to do with the training partnership the same Saudi company did with SNK last year to train young female saudi developers??
Alot of hyperbole in this thread without knowing the slightest clue about EGDC or "Misk Foundation"
Oh and for those screaming for boycotts already.. this is a list of MbS PIF investment (and its increasing every single day btw)
You guys clearly don't seem to comprehend the scope of influence rich American CEOs and their lobbying power over your politicians. Heck your whole political campaigns are funded by the rich aka SuperPACs
We should be way more upset about this, this is absolutely worse.
You think I don't know that? I stopped buying Activision games because of their CEO who are funding Trump and other reasons like supporting the CCP. I am not even american but people like Trump affect me too.
Just because I am calling out the bastard MBS doesn't mean I don't do the same for other bastards. Stop this poor attempt of whataboutism.
Good to see there is a defence force for literally everything on Era 🙄
Because this thread is about him, if it was about Obama or Trump people would be saying similar things.
Because this thread is about him, if it was about Obama or Trump people would be saying similar things.
Covid hit so yeah, they said it caused delays. Like Piccoro mentioned, they will be showing KOF early next year.
It was supposed to be XV and MS.
Far worse. Yet international LGBT rights groups are silent and indifferent to it as if its some kind of taboo to criticize the Saudi government. Fuck that. A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I can deal with chicken, I can't deal with gangsters.
Switch just lost a lot of pull for me. FUCK!
It's sad, isn't it?
Just when you think there is something that wouldn't have it you are proven wrong.
I don't know if this is a joke or what but it is in poor taste to say it. Fuck the crown prince.
Gee I dunno..maybe it had something to do with the training partnership the same Saudi company did with SNK last year to train young female saudi developers??
Alot of hyperbole in this thread without knowing the slightest clue about EGDC or "Misk Foundation"
Oh and for those screaming for boycotts already.. this is a list of MbS PIF investment (and its increasing every single day btw)
.… guess the people in this thread planning to boycott SNK should be boycotting Disney, Mahvel, Star Wars and a whole lot else?
Really easy for me as I barely use any of the above. I guess Disney is the only one that I actually care just a bit for but even then I don't give them money if at all. Usually I watch/play stuff by friends who share them with me.
With that said, some stuff you can't just not use. It sucks but it is what it is. What you can do is minimize the use of them.
As a gay person I've been pretty disappointed in LGBT rights groups for quite some time now, so I'm not expecting much sadly.
That's not always the case. As someone pointed out, sometime they do it because they love it. if I was a rich tycoon with billions, I'd buy Sega just to buy them because they are my favorite company. I honestly wouldn't do it to become rich off them.
yeah because if i do, i lose the moral ground to be upset about a sick fuck psychopath getting involved in a hobby i enjoy i guess.
brilliant binary thinking logic must have come free with dictator excusing.
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Sorry, you're right. The Khashoggi murder didn't come to mind when I saw the thread title.
...sure but also no?
having shares != being the largest shareholder
investing in stocks != signing a stock transfer agreement along the lines of what we're seeing here
gosh, y'all are really trying to come up with the whataboutism that might successfully distract from the subject at hand, aren't you
HE KNEW THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T GET MAI SHIRANUI IN SMASH
before you get your jimmies rustled look up my username
Hold the phone, you can bypass the boycott rules by borrowing from a friend lol?
But yeah, jokes aside it's tough if you go all the way but that's what you kinda gotta do to actually make a stand.
Otherwise you are just throwing words around at your convenience.
being the largest shareholder != being the majority shareholder
The previous Chinese chairman still runs the show. over 66% of the shares are owned the same as before.
SNK will function the same and the same devs will be making the same games as before. KOFXV won't change overnight just because one shareholder got bought out.
So yeah, enjoy the mental gymnastics and all that it entails.
MBS is a POS but that's about it. I couldn't care less about him before and couldn't care less about him now.
SNK is still SNK.
I think this whole acquisition started from this intern program that in 2018 helps Saudi citizens get internships at major Japanese studios including Square-Enix, Toei and SNK
https://s.animeanime.jp/article/2018/08/20/39588.html
https://s.animeanime.jp/article/2018/08/20/39588.html
User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory whataboutism
So it's OK to have a vaccine funded by him, but it's not OK to play a videogame funded by him?
Look, I also think that Prince Whatever is a horrible person. He supported Trump's campaign in 2016, along with many other terrible crap.
But the entertainment industry is mostly funded by these crappy millionaires, them being from the US, Saudi Arabia or wherever. You can't escape it.
lol
"enjoy the mental gymnastics" says the person who didn't actually respond to anything i said, and instead decided to just put their head in the sand
no no, you're right, 33% is not 51%, so SNK is still completely the same company - all they did was agree to a stock exchange agreement that, in one fell swoop, made MBS the largest shareholder of their company
by the way, the problem people have with this isn't that it might affect KOFXV lmao
...yes?
dude, there's way more at stake when it comes to vaccines than video games, your response to the latter situation isn't necessarily going to parallel your response to the former one
also, MBS investing some amount into Pfizer isn't the same as Pfizer agreeing to a stock exchange agreement making him the largest shareholder of their company, so the comparison hardly absolves SNK anyway
yeah i rather decide on my own what i can and cannot escape or get upset about, case by case on my own terms.
don't need whataboutisms which mainly boils down to shaming people to be ok with everything.
fuck mbs with a chainsaw btw.
Taking a vaccine for the sake of your health and the health of those around you isn't the same as buying a video game.
All I am saying is, I don't want to give money to people like MBS. In some cases you have to like the vaccine but the thing is you should try not to give money to bad people if you can.
Video games are not necessary and thus it is much easier not to give them money. Same with Disney.
No shit? lol.
It's the same doom and gloom that happened when the Chinese bought them. And that was an actual (full on control) acquisition. People were talking up a storm about how SNK as we know it is finished.
It's been five years now since they were bought out, how different is SNK now to what you would expect from them? Do you actually believe that they as a company will completely change after this new share purchase?
Fair enough.