Nature is healing
I’m sure the C Suite feels a great sense of Pride and Accomplishment.
Oh no. Won’t someone think of the shareholders.
Well, at least they were pioneers in the art of enshittification.
EA lost $6 billion in market value
And yet, nothing of value was lost. What a paradox!
Deserved. Fuck them. For all they do.
Dragon Age Veilguard was a bastardization of Dragon Age. Of course it was going to fail. You failed your core audience, you idiots.
If you wanted to make a Marvel version of a dark fantasy game, you could’ve made a new IP, instead of leeching off the brand.
It was so, so bad.
That’s what they get for torching Westwood
Where was Gondor when the Westwood fell?
EA stopped innovating years ago and became a games monetization shop. You reap what you sow.
Afee losing some sports licenses or the Star Wars license… EA doesn’t really have much going for it anymore.
I guess we’ll see if DICE can salvage Battlefield up next.
Idk how the decade+ of Need for Speed games that range from mediocre to outright awful are selling anymore either.
Is this c/upliftingnews?
Baldurs gate 3 ruined it for the large AAA developers/publishers. People are now excepting good games like that.
Look. I don’t care about the political content in a game as long as the game is good!
The issue is, these large game companies have been trying to change the mindset of gamers to accept games with less content because at the end of the day the only thing these companies want is to sell horse armour.
Good, keep going that way.
Good
Normally these articles are slightly alarmist making it sound like a company will fall over becuase of one bad game release and when you look at the share price over time it is still up. but this one is interesting. EA are down 15% over the past 12 months because of this one drop.
Another way to see that 15% drop is hinted at in the article:
EA FC generates around $2 billion annually, Reuters reports, with around $800 million of that made up by Ultimate Team.
Loot boxes made EA $800M last year. It’s easy to see why EA and other publishers demand MTX in games. Can we amend “Don’t preorder” with “and ignore micro transactions”?
@chicosuave@lemmy.world Pretty sure that ignoring micro-transactions has always been “a thing” to take a stand against. But of course, when it comes to the general public, no one ever does.
Yeah most game news websites don’t understand stocks but in this case, DA Vanguard was a massive failure. In the press release, the game was played by 1.5 million people. Not copies sold, just played. This probably includes people that just bought a month of EA Play to check it out.
The newest fifa game (EA sports FC now) also under-performed but they didn’t say much about it beyond that. A few more flops and it sounds like EA could be following Ubisoft into crashing hard.
EA could be following Ubisoft into crashing hard.
I wouldn’t miss them. I’m still mad at EA about what they did with Westwood. And they haven’t stopped being shit.
Justice for command and conquer.
Legend of Kyrandia. 😭
🫂 Westwood was such a great studio.
Schreier’s added context to this is that FC is far more responsible for the financial underperformance than Dragon Age.
They won’t say that though, because they have a built in narrative of “we were too woke”; convenient excuse for a less micro transaction heavy game to be blamed, as well as an excuse to be more strict on themes in their games. None of the problems are solved, but they have a scapegoat.
I don’t think this is a narrative EA is leaning into. Frankly, even if it sold less than they forecast, I’m sure they were happy they sold as much as they did given the troubled production it was converted from.
I don’t particularly think it is either, just that’s it’s conveniently there. The prevailing narrative about failed games recently has been wokeism, and not just the simple fact that games are increasingly shitty as the point isn’t a compelling narrative or gameplay, but how many micro transactions can be squeezed out of a franchise.
Did Veilguard have microtransactions?
I don’t think so, but it is “woke”, and that’s a good enough reason for many to stick their fingers in their ears and claim that’s why it didn’t sell well.
slightly alarmist
Positively though, in the case of EA.
They’ve been running the same money sucking schemes for the last decade. The gravy train is over
With FC, I figured they had that audience by the balls.
I think without the FIFA branding, the series lost its luster.
They could just update rosters and wouldn’t even need a new game. It’s pointless now that graphics and gameplay are not enhanced enough to justify a new $60 game
It’s been that way for years
💯
FC 24 did well even after they lost the FIFA license. Something else going on here.
I cant really find any empathy or sympathy for them, at all
