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Too big to fail eh? Do you really think if it blows up, the public won’t get sucked in?

You'll have to pay for it anyway. Games will get more expensive, there'll be more micro-transactions, etc. The investors as well as JP Morgan want their money back.

Realistically EA will never financially recover from this in its current form. Likely they will carve out 1-2 portions of it they can resell and the rest will die.

I wouldn't be so quick to assume the capital structure of a company influences its product decisions. Lots of well-funded, publicly traded companies are also screwing their customers for the sake of short-term revenue.

Want better games? Find them. Support the smaller studios and indie devs that produce quality, or contribute to a FOSS one.

No the taxpayer is. We paid the subprime mortgage bill. We will pay the private equity leverage bill too.

First of all the banks paid back that loan with interest. Second of all this EA loan is like pennies compared to that. JPM can swallow it easily.