Abandon single-player, move development to Saudi Arabia, "reduce labour"? Roughly $20bn was borrowed from Morgan Stanley, and EA is now expected to make interest payments of around $1.8bn a year. According to its most recent 10-Q financial filing, the company made $1.98bn in revenue last quarter, $1.47bn of that coming from live services. It had a total net revenue of around $7.5bn last financial year, and it publishes games with a reach of around 700 million people, which happen to fit within what the Saudis want in terms of esports and competitive gaming." It could also offer a new avenue of influence for the Saudi Arabian state's sporting ventures.
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