It’s both, but boss is the biggest contributor of the two by far. I’ve worked for few owners, they hate payroll. It’s their biggest expense and that infuriates many of them. They despise paying anybody anything.

So, of course a huge amount pay the lowest wages possible, and a lot of them would own you as a slave if it was legal, no doubt. And they’d grumble about the cost of the gruel.

Government’s fundamental job is keeping the general population from being enslaved by these people. It’s what government is for.

They just won’t make The Sims.

The Saudis won’t touch it or anything like it. They have the death penalty for adultery, The Sims is unacceptable (at least, the sims that we know).

They might have a Sharia Law version where the fully-covered women juggle raising children and making meals to please their husband.

They will make games for their market (and China).

Sims is a US-market-game that is against Islamic law.

Instead, they can make FIFA and other sports games and shooters. I doubt they’ll even make RPGs as we know them, Baldur’s Gate 3 for example would not be made in a Saudi studio.

Yeah, exactly what we expected to happen when Saudis bought it.

Saudis are Islamic, there are no pride parades in Saudi Arabia. There will be no more “secular” games from Electronic Arts, so somehow EA has found a way to suck even more.

The Saudis are an embarrassing US ally, not even getting into the royal family. They’re no better than Iran in my opinion.

I can understand doing business with them, I think trade is the best way to open doors and find common ground. But an ally?

It’s against my religion.

Yeah good luck with that. I’ll stick with windows xp games if I have to. I’d rather play playstation 2 games than sit through ads on modern hardware. Amiga games, even.

Nothing here was your problem, if you don’t like it you should GO ELSEWHERE or STFU.

Just an idea. If you don’t like my idea, that’s fine. Don’t like it? Go elsewhere. Can’t? Not my problem, STFU.

Thank you for Baba Yaga, anything starring Baba Yaga gets my full endorsement. (I can fix her, I just know it!)

CEO “What, you screwed me over, too? Me?!?”