"Bad Gate 3" Director commented on EA acquisition case and XGP price increase

2025-10-04 21:44:58|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Sven Fink, head of Larion Studio and director of "Body's Gate 3", has posted on Twitter, expressing his views on the current situation of the industry on the rise in Microsoft Game Pass and the acquisition of EA by private equity firms and Saudi Arabia's public investment fund - and EA's acquisition seems destined to bring BioWare, a developer of "Body's Gate" series.

When the EA acquisition was still in the rumor stage, Fink once joked: "Someone must be particularly interested in obtaining the copyright of "Murder on the Zinderneuf". What he is referring to is one of the first games launched by EA as early as 1983, an 8-bit detective puzzle game suitable for personal computers such as Apple II and Commodore 64 at that time.

Now, after Microsoft, which is known for its frequent studio shutdowns, announced the price increase of Game Pass, Fink made a more serious point today: "Maybe it's time to remind everyone that the model of 'making games faster and cheaper, while charging higher fees' has never been successful."

Fink did not name it, but these words obviously can only target the two most popular things in the current gaming industry.Microsoft's price increase on Game Pass makes its bets on subscription services seem more unwise than ever; and EA's only hope for avoiding mass layoffs under the new owners seems to be a solution called "mechanical scammer".

The Financial Times reported that people involved in the EA acquisition said that uncertain advances in artificial intelligence technology will help make the deal feasible at the financial level.

Otherwise, the price of EA's acquisition this time is $12 billion higher than its previous valuation of $43 billion; and the acquisition also requires $20 billion in high-interest "junk" loans - with EA's current revenue, it will be very difficult to repay these loans.

As for Game Pass, a safe haven that once avoided price increases in games, has dropped significantly after the pricing rose to $30 per month - especially Steam and GOG are still operating, not only the game is cheap, but also allows players to own it forever.Not to mention Microsoft is about to launch the most expensive Xbox device in history: a ROG Ally handheld with the Xbox brand logo only made a small upgrade.

Fink’s original joke tweet also mentioned another less remarkable regret in the EA acquisition (unlike the seemingly inevitable layoffs): EA has accumulated a staggering amount of classic game rights over the years, but has barely used them.

Perhaps the most famous of these is Origin Systems' past game library, including one of Fink's self-proclaimed favorite games, Genesis 7, and Genesis Underground - a game that is the originator of all immersive simulation games, from Predator, Thief to Killer.

For Larion, the opposite strategy to "making games faster and cheaper while charging higher fees" was obviously effective.But it is hard to imagine that other 3A game development companies can develop in this direction in the short term.At least, before Larion’s two role-playing games in development are ready to be for the public, we still have Baldur’s Gate 3 to give us some stance for the time being.

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