A little over a year ago, PIF and Silver Lake were announced as two parts of EA's new ownership trifecta, following a $55 billion buyout agreement, and it has now been revealed in a new Reuters report that PIF and Silver Lake have met with Unity Software to initiate talks to buy the game engine...
This is another good reason to GTFO when the enshitification starts. Not only because the experience itself will continue to be a testing ground for how much more you’ll pay and how much worse you’ll put up with, but the endgame, is almost always them trying to get bought out for the highest price … either directly through a buyout or indirectly through an IPO. Hat’s off to everyone reading this here tonight on Lemmy instead of reddit.