EA going private?

What gives you the idea that you'd be any better off? 

It could mean all sorts of things, in both a positive and negative way. It somewhat worries me because acquisitions could potentially mean major reforms, large amount of job cuts and possibly even the shutdown of major titles in EA's line-up. Saudi Arabia's involvement could also mean that they are looking to gain more influence in the gaming space. That could translate to all sorts of changes that aren't immediately obvious, like censorship of games that go against the government narrative.

If you think Corporate is bad, then you have no clue why. These Investment firms are the reason why and now they want to buy out the the rest of them. 
What do you expect will happen? 
Based on seen experience, the worst, especially when you look into, who is invovled. 
I might get surprised but EA will be dead for me as i do not trust them to have a kernel driver on my PC. EA is actually the only one for now. 

I fear extreme monetization inside the games, reduced quality (safe money), advertisement inside the games. Support as it is already bad, will be completely unreachable. 

Investment Firms want the same thing Corporate wants but more and faster. 
I will wait with my BF6 order until i hear that this deal did no go through, which i really hope. 

Paying for, or even pre-orderin, the game at this point feels incredibly uncertain. What’s stopping them from making it free-to-play later anyway, just to maximize profits? That would be a dream scenario for cheaters, free access, no consequences, while the investment firms keep profiting from their dirty little “hobby.” As far as I’m concerned, I don’t see a bright future for this franchise anymore.

Well well well... now that was fast!

Wonder what it will bring to the BF franchise...!

That was fast!

I foresee big changes and at a minimum the selling of all our information. 

This is probably going to make things a lot worse tbh. With publicly traded businesses, there can be hundreds if not thousands of shareholders who have a say in the business. Now you have only 2 or 3. And they didn’t buy it because they like games or have the best interests of players in mind. They want to make much more money. So I wouldn’t be surprised if prices go up, more micro transactions, layoffs, etc.

And acquired by private equity no less. Welp, I guess that settles the skins matter, gotta squeeze as much money as possible from players somehow.

Oh, and isn't one of the new owners closely affiliated with Trump? I suppose there will definitely be creative control, then. Battlefield will probably be all right, just with a more brazen patriotic American tone, I guess. RIP BioWare and RIP The Sims, though.

The uncertainty is what's getting to me. Sure, the next 6 months are concrete. We're gonna get launch, maybe 2 surprise maps, then Battle Royal. But what happens after that? How long will BF6 receive post-launch content... especially with the rumors of it becoming an annual release. It's all just giving me the ick.

I don't want another Call of Duty HQ, and I don't think anyone else does either.

Then there's the micro-transactions to worry about, since profit will be even more so of a priority. 

Then there's the developers I'm worried about, if years down the line something happens to maximize profits, I'd feel complicit.

I feel like Blackburn at the end of BF3's Campaign when you meet Dima.

A very neat and simple chart was presented by YT'er 'ShortyIndexNews', which I think is a fair balance of plus & minus in all this:

Need not be all rosy but neither doom and gloom, one would hope...

...that Kuschner is involved in all this is actually my biggest trigger for concern, IMO... money commands his soul.