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Why private equity acquisitions like the one that just claimed BioWare are so dreaded
BioWare is just the latest casualty in a long history of private equity carnage. The closure of BioWare has not come as a huge surprise.
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BioWare is just the latest casualty in a long history of private equity carnage. The closure of BioWare has not come as a huge surprise. The LGBTQ-inclusive developer of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, which hadn't managed to transmute development mayhem into sales success and whose games aren't ideal environments for loot boxes, did not seem likely to be admired by its new owners, Saudi Arabia and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. Employees at the legendary RPG studio started working on their resumes as soon as the acquisition was announced.
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