Schreier’s added context to this is that FC is far more responsible for the financial underperformance than Dragon Age.
Comment on EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news
simple@lemm.ee 6 days agoYeah 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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
CMLVI@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
CMLVI@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
I wouldn’t miss them. I’m still mad at EA about what they did with Westwood. And they haven’t stopped being shit.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Justice for command and conquer.
Andonyx@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Legend of Kyrandia. 😭
yggstyle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
🫂 Westwood was such a great studio.