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Leveraged-buyout ownership starts cutting into the creative studios it bought

The New York Times, Oct 21 · read the original

EA's own buyout owners close BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect, cutting roughly 400 jobs company-wide two months after EA itself went private in a $55 billion leveraged buyout; one Steam reviewer's reaction, on an unrelated EA title, read 'RIP Bioware.

I will never purchase another product EA is attached to.'

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