The Players Alliance HQ Is Planning an EA Raid on May 11th in Protest of the EA Buyout in Redwood City, California.
The backlash against the leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts continues, with a new protest movement organised by Players Alliance HQ now calling on cosplayers and gamers to “raid” the Electronic Arts headquarters in opposition to the proposed Saudi-backed takeover deal.
Dubbed the “EA Raid”, the campaign follows the criticism of the reported $55 billion acquisition effort involving Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, among other investment groups. Attendants will arrive outside EA’s headquarters in Redwood City, California, and unravel a 50ft scroll with over 70,000 signatures from the recent petition.
The Players Alliance is raiding EA’s HQ in Redwood City, California
On May 11th, the Players Alliance will rally gamers from across the country to raid the HQ in spectacular fashion. We’ll be delivering our 70,000 petition signatures, yes, but we’ll do it in a way that they can’t ignore.
We’re fighting to block the $55 billion by the Saudi monarchy and private equity consortium led by Jared Kushner. We’ve already recruited help from Congress — hosting a Twitch stream with Rep. Maxwell Frost. This already caught EA’s attention, so now’s the time to bring more heat.
We want to get as many Bay Area gamers to join us as possible. The action will be in the morning, Can you join us?
Fill out the form and an organizer will be in touch.
Players Alliance HQ
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When And Where Is The “EA Raid” Taking Place?
The protest will be taking place on May 11th 2026, at the Electronic Arts Headquarters in Redwood City, California. The protest will begin at 11 AM with the unravelling of a 50ft scroll featuring the signatures from the recent buyout petition. The petition was recently promoted in a livestream by Lilsimsie, who was joined by US Representative Maxwell Frost, in which discussions were held about the potential impacts of the buyout. You can register your interest below:
What Concerns Are Held by Players About the EA Buyout?
A comment we often receive, and you may have seen across social media, is “why should we care?” The reported buyout would see Electronic Arts come under new ownership, with a majority held by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign fund of the Gulf nation. Alongside the PIF, the buyers also include Affinity Partners, headed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, and Silver Lake. A buyout of this size would see EA go under several major changes, such as more aggressive monetisation to clear any debts, mass employee layoffs, wage suppression, and further expansion of AI tools that replace human jobs.
The background of the new owners should also give players pause for concern. The PIF is the personal investment fund of the Saudi Arabian crown, the same government known for extreme censorship, complicity in war and genocide, and human rights abuses. Saudi Arabia ranks 4th in the Global Slavery Index’s estimation of the number of people in modern slavery.
Have you pledged support for the EA Buyout petition yet? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned to Sims Community for all the latest on the EA Buyout.
This protest feels so performative honestly. Like how does less ownership with people directly affecting the minorities in the USA be a bad thing? Like this community was not like this when the minorities wanted the skintone update(with it only being pushed in recent years after they gave us the iconic Karen of the sims IP in the Cottage Living EP). If only this protest was for the focus on Africa for an EP petition, I might think it was more worth.
There are actual bad things happening in this world but we want to instead focus our efforts on protesting video games??? Something we might actually be better off without even having. The ignorance of the people putting this together is astounding. I hope they get any trouble this asks for