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When I say that the video game industry has had a catastrophic past few years, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

For those of you who don't know the details, Bioware is part of EA, which was purchased this summer and taken private in a leveraged buyout by Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law) and Saudi Arabia.

This is them stripping the company for parts. In a better economy with anyone else investing in video game companies, they might try to sell Bioware. Instead, it's cheaper just to shut it down, people and legendary games be damned.

This is not a tragedy. It's an act of economic violence perpetrated by unfettered billionaires and abetted by the Trump administration.

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Vulture capitalism meets crony capitalism—a confluence of multiple bad faith actors stripping companies of their assets for immediate private profit but then publicly dumping the debts on the public / commonwealth after they’ve stripped it of any value