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Thread: EA Says Bookings Slid on Weakness in Soccer, Dragon Age' Games (Veilguard reached 1.5 million players)
Jezbollah
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SirKicksalot
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The EAFC pack weights and challenges are so bad...I never paid money but this year I'm barely even interacting with them. Everything feels twice as expensive and twice as grindy to get.
They overhauled the gameplay last week, so clearly a lot of players dropped it.
They overhauled the gameplay last week, so clearly a lot of players dropped it.
This is mostly it. The FC rebranding hasn't been positively received. I've heard lots of complaints but the lack of proper competitors have kept it afloat.
FreddyFooker
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How could you possibly have a business where you create a product that costs the amount that videogame development costs, and you put it in the hands of amateurs?
I wouldn't even let a purple hair run a pizza shop that I owned. But a $100M+ product development? You hand that shit over to some twitter activists?? It's mind-boggling.
I wouldn't even let a purple hair run a pizza shop that I owned. But a $100M+ product development? You hand that shit over to some twitter activists?? It's mind-boggling.
esoteric
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That's not even the number of sales lol. What a flop.
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What the fuck does reached mean? Either people bought it or they didn't. They must be including GamePass numbers, which I'd wager make up 80% of that figure. Have we ever gotten a firm number from MS or any developer how much money they get each time someone plays a game on GP? It can't be much.
It was also given away with Geforce Now Ultimate subscriptions. Not huge numbers, obviously.
EA stock down nearly 20.0%. Deservedly UBISOFT 2.0.
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CAPTAIN RAINCOAT
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Don't have hire mentally ill people for positions that require a clear head is what I take from this
Quick, hire more women and non binaries to save the company!
CAPTAIN RAINCOAT
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As much as an idiot I think trump is I do hope he kicks off a reverse #meetoo that unfucks the world from the last 10 years
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Man imagine if EA had not fucked up Burnout, Command and Conquer, Dead Space, Dungeon Keeper, Dragon Age, Fight Night, Mass Effect, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Kotor, Sim City, Star Wars: Battlefront, Skate, Syndicate, Titanfall, Themepark, Ultima and Wing Commander.
Absolutely Deserved Karma for what EA has done to those franchises, and their fans.
Absolutely Deserved Karma for what EA has done to those franchises, and their fans.
Saruhashi
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They've got so many good franchises that could have so many great titles and they just fucking refuse.
1.5 million for Dragon Age is embarrassing and it's probably not even 1.5 million copies sold! 1.5 million players "reached" LOL!
Jezbollah
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gets What Appears To Be Its Last Update
EA and BioWare appear to be finished with Dragon Age: The Veilguard with what seems to be the last major update for the game.
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LLLOOOLLL EA have already pulled the plug on the absolute abortion that is DA:V.
skeem
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It's mad that they are fucking up their footy goldmine too. ALL of my friends play FIFA religiously. But they didn't buy the new game. Not a single one.
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EA has their own subscription service. So it means anyone that bought the game or tried on through EA's service. It is a fancy way of saying the game bombed even harder then they are saying.
CAPTAIN RAINCOAT
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One game I worked on is on GP....and no it doesn't make any money on MTX or conversions. The ARPPU is significantly lower on GP than purchasers (less than half).
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I wouldn't say they ficked them up more like the gaming industry passed them by. Those games could be made by a small to medium sized team with a normal budget and sell a mill or two over 3 systems.
Now these games would have to be made by a 1000 person studio with a 100 to 300 million dollar budget. No one buys games on XBOX due to GP so you have to pray you sell enough on PS5.
Even if they kept those IPs around they would be money.losers under the weight of a bloated studio lead by activists pushing an agenda to turn off gamers.
Its a different industry from those ps2 and ps3 era. You could make a AA game and gamers would actually buy these games.
The thing is, it really isn't, it's just that big publishers aren't making those games anymore, and leaving them up to smaller studios/publishers and Indie devs to cater to the market with these days.
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Big publishers though used to make AA games. I would argue it was the bread and butter for most publishers and most games back then we're AA before they went on to become AAA.
I think in the end we're saying the same thing. Pubs like EA and UBi etc abandoned the modest game market. They just have massive studios full of bloat to make 100 million dollar plus games that need to sell 20 million copies.
And in today's market where XBOX basically sucks and Pubs hate Nintendo systems that's pretty hard to do. Especially since it seems PS players use the PS5 to play ps4 games and watch Hentai blue rays.
Like EA could never make the street series or Def Jam or even burn out because they would end up spending 200 million dollars developing the game and charge 120$ for the special edition and require 10 million ps5 sales
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EA CEO says DA failed due to not being live service...
esoteric
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They know what's going on, but they have big egos. They don't want to admit that a bunch of unruly chuds on the internet have better business foresight than they do.
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This means they are going to fuck up Battlefield. There will be to much pressure for it to be a hit that EA will interfere and muck it up even worse than 2042.